diff --git a/OpenRA.Mods.Example/OpenRA.Mods.Example.csproj b/OpenRA.Mods.Example/OpenRA.Mods.Example.csproj
index e76e48fe6..c2f9e7206 100644
--- a/OpenRA.Mods.Example/OpenRA.Mods.Example.csproj
+++ b/OpenRA.Mods.Example/OpenRA.Mods.Example.csproj
@@ -1,26 +1,9 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
+  <Import Project="../engine/Directory.Build.props" />
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework Condition="'$(Mono)' == ''">net5.0</TargetFramework>
-    <TargetFramework Condition="'$(Mono)' != ''">netstandard2.1</TargetFramework>
-    <AllowUnsafeBlocks>true</AllowUnsafeBlocks>
-    <Optimize>true</Optimize>
-    <LangVersion>7.3</LangVersion>
-    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
-    <TreatWarningsAsErrors>true</TreatWarningsAsErrors>
     <OutputPath>../engine/bin</OutputPath>
-    <AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>false</AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>
-    <PlatformTarget>AnyCPU</PlatformTarget>
-    <EnableDefaultCompileItems>false</EnableDefaultCompileItems>
     <CodeAnalysisRuleSet>../engine/OpenRA.ruleset</CodeAnalysisRuleSet>
   </PropertyGroup>
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <!-- Work around an issue where Rider does not detect files in the project root using the default glob -->
-    <Compile Include="**/*.cs" Exclude="$(DefaultItemExcludes)" />
-  </ItemGroup>
-  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='Debug'">
-    <DefineConstants>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants>
-    <Optimize>false</Optimize>
-  </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <ProjectReference Include="../engine/OpenRA.Game/OpenRA.Game.csproj">
       <Private>False</Private>
@@ -28,14 +11,5 @@
     <ProjectReference Include="../engine/OpenRA.Mods.Common/OpenRA.Mods.Common.csproj">
       <Private>False</Private>
     </ProjectReference>
-    <PackageReference Include="StyleCop.Analyzers" Version="1.1.118" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NETFramework.ReferenceAssemblies" Version="1.0.0" PrivateAssets="All" />
-    <AdditionalFiles Include="../engine/stylecop.json" />
   </ItemGroup>
-  <Target Name="DisableAnalyzers" BeforeTargets="CoreCompile" Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='Release'">
-    <!-- Disable code style analysis on Release builds to improve compile-time performance -->
-    <ItemGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='Release'">
-      <Analyzer Remove="@(Analyzer)" />
-    </ItemGroup>
-  </Target>
 </Project>
diff --git a/mod.config b/mod.config
index 1a7891e1d..982526048 100644
--- a/mod.config
+++ b/mod.config
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 MOD_ID="example"
 
 # The OpenRA engine version to use for this project.
-ENGINE_VERSION="be22493"
+ENGINE_VERSION="9b1ca7e7aea42177e4059ccede2027fb350c3649"
 
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 # Packaging