diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index d1b566b..793a8fb 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -11,16 +11,12 @@ services:
      - SOURCE=GITHUB
        # Required unless OFFLINE_MODE=TRUE and the site files are already present.
        # Expects one of GITHUB, GITHUB-NOIMG, GET5ETOOLS, or GET5ETOOLS-NOIMG. Where:
-       # GITHUB pulls from https://github.com/5etools-mirror-1/5etools-mirror-1
-       # GITHUB-NOIMG pulls from https://github.com/5etools-mirror-1/5etools-mirror-1 without image files.
+       # GITHUB pulls from https://github.com/5etools-mirror-2/5etools-mirror-2.github.io and adds https://github.com/5etools-mirror-2/5etools-img as a submodule
+       # GITHUB-NOIMG pulls from https://github.com/5etools-mirror-2/5etools-mirror-2.github.io without adding the images submodule.
        # GET5ETOOLS pulls from https://get.5e.tools
        # GET5ETOOLS-NOIMG pulls from https://get.5e.tools without image files.
        # The get.5e.tools source has been down (redirecting to 5e.tools) during development.
        # This method is not tested.
-     #- GIT_URL=https://github.com/5etools-mirror-1/5etools-mirror-1.github.io.git
-       # Use this to override the default "official" mirror link. Only works for initial Git clone. 
-       # Does not work when an existing repository is present.
-       # Defaults to https://github.com/5etools-mirror-2/5etools-mirror-2.github.io.git
      #- OFFLINE_MODE=TRUE
        # Optional. Expects "TRUE" or "FALSE". 
 
diff --git a/init.sh b/init.sh
index 243c4df..fa180a1 100644
--- a/init.sh
+++ b/init.sh
@@ -48,20 +48,16 @@ case $SOURCE in
         git config --global user.name "AutoDeploy"
         git config --global pull.rebase false # Squelch nag message
         git config --global --add safe.directory '/usr/local/apache2/htdocs' # Disable directory ownership checking, required for mounted volumes
-        git clone --filter=blob:none --no-checkout $DL_LINK . # clone the repo with no files and no object history
-        git config core.sparseCheckout true # enable sparse checkout
-        git sparse-checkout init 
+        git clone $DL_LINK . # clone the repo with no files and no object history
       else
         echo " === Using existing git repository"
         git config --global --add safe.directory '/usr/local/apache2/htdocs' # Disable directory ownership checking, required for mounted volumes
       fi
-      if [[ "$SOURCE" == *"NOIMG"* ]]; then # if user does not want images
-        echo -e '/*\n!img' > .git/info/sparse-checkout # sparse checkout should include everything except the img directory
-        echo " === Pulling from GitHub without images..."
-      else
-        echo -e '/*' > .git/info/sparse-checkout # sparse checkout should include everything
-        echo " === Pulling from GitHub with images... (This will take a while)"
+      if ! [[ "$SOURCE" == *"NOIMG"* ]]; then # if user does want images
+        echo " === Pulling images from GitHub... (This will take a while)"
+        git submodule add -f https://github.com/5etools-mirror-2/5etools-img /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/img
       fi
+      echo " === Pulling main files from GitHub..."
       git checkout
       git fetch
       git pull --depth=1