diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2f8c44f1c..4f4f47a23 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,10 +27,7 @@ You can directly post an issue in this repo, be sure to use the template!
 
 The bot comes as a [poetry](https://python-poetry.org/) Python package and can run using Docker.
 
-You must first setup a Discord bot with the following intents enabled:
-
-- Server members intent
-- Message content intent (will be removed at a later date)
+You must first setup a Discord bot. **No privileged intents are required!**
 
 ### With Docker (recommended)
 
diff --git a/ballsdex/__init__.py b/ballsdex/__init__.py
index eee00e3d2..c7f183a6d 100755
--- a/ballsdex/__init__.py
+++ b/ballsdex/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "1.1.0"
+__version__ = "1.1.1"
diff --git a/ballsdex/core/bot.py b/ballsdex/core/bot.py
index 0e2846f6f..816098ac6 100755
--- a/ballsdex/core/bot.py
+++ b/ballsdex/core/bot.py
@@ -31,7 +31,13 @@ class BallsDexBot(commands.Bot):
     """
 
     def __init__(self, command_prefix: str, dev: bool = False, **options):
-        intents = discord.Intents(guilds=True, guild_messages=True, message_content=True)
+        # An explaination for the used intents
+        # guilds: needed for basically anything, the bot needs to know what guilds it has
+        # and accordingly enable automatic spawning in the enabled ones
+        # guild_messages: spawning is based on messages sent, content is not necessary
+        # emojis_and_stickers: DB holds emoji IDs for the balls which are fetched from 3 servers
+        intents = discord.Intents(guilds=True, guild_messages=True, emojis_and_stickers=True)
+
         super().__init__(command_prefix, intents=intents, tree_cls=CommandTree, **options)
         self._shutdown = 0
         self.dev = dev