diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index e548e27f9..b93ea9fd7 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -28,3 +28,7 @@
 	path = depends/libexpat
 	url = ../../DFHack/libexpat.git
 	shallow = true
+[submodule "depends/luacov"]
+	path = depends/luacov
+	url = ../../keplerproject/luacov.git
+	shallow = true
diff --git a/LICENSE.rst b/LICENSE.rst
index 48bcfbe95..68678dfb3 100644
--- a/LICENSE.rst
+++ b/LICENSE.rst
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ libexpat_       MIT           \(c\) 1998-2000 Thai Open Source Software Center L
 libzip_         BSD 3-clause  \(c\) 1999-2020 Dieter Baron and Thomas Klausner
 linenoise_      BSD 2-clause  \(c\) 2010, Salvatore Sanfilippo & Pieter Noordhuis
 lua_            MIT           \(c\) 1994-2008, Lua.org, PUC-Rio.
+luacov_         MIT           \(c\) 2007 - 2018 Hisham Muhammad
 luafilesystem_  MIT           \(c\) 2003-2014, Kepler Project
 lua-profiler_   MIT           \(c\) 2002,2003,2004 Pepperfish
 protobuf_       BSD 3-clause  \(c\) 2008, Google Inc.
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ alt-getopt_     MIT           \(c\) 2009 Aleksey Cheusov
 .. _libzip: https://github.com/nih-at/libzip
 .. _linenoise: http://github.com/antirez/linenoise
 .. _lua: http://www.lua.org
+.. _luacov: https://github.com/keplerproject/luacov
 .. _luafilesystem: https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem
 .. _lua-profiler: http://lua-users.org/wiki/PepperfishProfiler
 .. _protobuf: https://github.com/google/protobuf
diff --git a/depends/CMakeLists.txt b/depends/CMakeLists.txt
index de389ee92..f42955e7d 100644
--- a/depends/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/depends/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ option(CLSOCKET_DEP_ONLY "Build for use inside other CMake projects as dependenc
 add_subdirectory(clsocket)
 ide_folder(clsocket "Depends")
 
+install(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/luacov/src/luacov/ DESTINATION ${DFHACK_DATA_DESTINATION}/lua/luacov)
+
 # set the default values of libexpat options - the descriptions are left empty
 # because later option() calls *do* override those
 set(EXPAT_BUILD_EXAMPLES OFF CACHE BOOL "")
diff --git a/depends/luacov b/depends/luacov
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..19b52ca02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/depends/luacov
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 19b52ca0298c8942df82dd441d7a4a588db4c413