diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 55fa309e81..e5715190cf 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,9 +11,10 @@
 !.gitignore
 !.github
 
-# Ignore Gradle temp files
+# Ignore Gradle files we don't want committed
 build/
 /gradle.properties
+config/analytics
 
 # Ignore IntelliJ files
 */out/
@@ -55,4 +56,3 @@ local.properties
 
 # Ignore generated output of mdbook for Github Pages
 docs/book
-
diff --git a/Jenkinsfile b/Jenkinsfile
index d42df872cb..76c01b7dd4 100644
--- a/Jenkinsfile
+++ b/Jenkinsfile
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ pipeline {
                 recordIssues tool: javaDoc()
                 //Note: Javadoc archiver only works for one directory :-(
                 step([$class: 'JavadocArchiver', javadocDir: 'nui/build/docs/javadoc', keepAll: false])
-                //recordIssues tool: checkStyle(pattern: '**/build/reports/checkstyle/*.xml')
-                //recordIssues tool: spotBugs(pattern: '**/build/reports/spotbugs/main/*.xml', useRankAsPriority: true)
-                //recordIssues tool: pmdParser(pattern: '**/build/reports/pmd/*.xml')
+                recordIssues tool: checkStyle(pattern: '**/build/reports/checkstyle/*.xml')
+                recordIssues tool: spotBugs(pattern: '**/build/reports/spotbugs/main/*.xml', useRankAsPriority: true)
+                recordIssues tool: pmdParser(pattern: '**/build/reports/pmd/*.xml')
                 recordIssues tool: taskScanner(includePattern: '**/*.java,**/*.groovy,**/*.gradle', lowTags: 'WIBNIF', normalTags: 'TODO', highTags: 'ASAP')
             }
         }
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index ebdda74f03..b2ddaa4ab7 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -1,7 +1,26 @@
 // See gradle/common.gradle for more or less global build logic applied to the subprojects
 
+buildscript {
+    repositories {
+        // External libs - jcenter is Bintray and is supposed to be a superset of Maven Central, but do both just in case
+        jcenter()
+        mavenCentral()
+        gradlePluginPortal()
+    }
+
+    dependencies {
+        //Spotbugs
+        classpath "gradle.plugin.com.github.spotbugs.snom:spotbugs-gradle-plugin:4.0.0"
+    }
+}
+
 plugins {
-    id 'idea'
+    // Needed for extending the "clean" task to also delete custom stuff defined here like analytics config
+    id "base"
+
+    id "idea"
+    // For the "Build and run using: Intellij IDEA | Gradle" switch
+    id "org.jetbrains.gradle.plugin.idea-ext" version "0.7"
 }
 
 ext {
@@ -10,4 +29,42 @@ ext {
 
     // JOML version we're tracking
     jomlVersion = "1.9.25"
+
+    dirAnalyticsConfig = 'gradle/analytics'
+}
+
+// Declare remote repositories we're interested in - library files will be fetched from here
+repositories {
+    // Artifactory instance for our stuff and  binaries not readily available elsewhere
+    maven {
+        name "Terasology Artifactory"
+        url "http://artifactory.terasology.org/artifactory/virtual-repo-live"
+        allowInsecureProtocol true  // 😱
+    }
+}
+
+// Define configurations for analytics config
+configurations {
+    codeAnalyticsConfig
+}
+
+dependencies {
+    // Config for our code analytics lives in a centralized repo: https://github.com/MovingBlocks/TeraConfig
+    codeAnalyticsConfig group: 'org.terasology.config', name: 'codemetrics', version: '1.3.2', ext: 'zip'
+}
+
+task extractAnalyticsConfig(type: Copy) {
+    description = "Extracts configuration files for our analytics from the zip we fetched as a dependency"
+    from {
+        configurations.codeAnalyticsConfig.collect {
+            zipTree(it)
+        }
+    }
+    into "$rootDir/$dirAnalyticsConfig"
+}
+
+// Include deletion of extracted stuff in the global clean task. Without the doLast it runs on *every* execution ...
+clean.doLast {
+    new File(dirAnalyticsConfig).deleteDir()
+    println "Cleaned root - don't forget to re-extract stuff! 'gradlew extractAnalyticsConfig' will do so"
 }
diff --git a/config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml b/config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 67ff87514d..0000000000
--- a/config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,284 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
-        "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
-        "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
-
-<module name="Checker">
-    <module name="SuppressionFilter">
-        <property name="file" value="${samedir}/suppressions.xml"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line. -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
-    <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile">
-        <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <!-- Checks that there are no tab characters ('\t') in the source code. -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_whitespace.html#FileTabCharacter -->
-    <module name="FileTabCharacter">
-        <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <!-- Checks for header -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_header.html -->
-    <!-- ***************** -->
-    <!-- Checks that a source file begins with a specified header. -->
-    <module name="RegexpHeader">
-        <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        <property name="header" value="/*\n * Copyright 20\d\d MovingBlocks\n *\n * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0"/>
-        <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="TreeWalker">
-        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_naming.html -->
-        <!-- ***************************** -->
-        <!-- class type parameters : ^[A-Z]$ -->
-        <module name="ClassTypeParameterName">
-            <property name="format" value="^[A-Z]*$"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- constants (static, final fields) : ^[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*(_[A-Z0-9]+)*$ -->
-        <!-- Unfortunately this module is too inclusive - static final fields are not necessarily constants! -->
-        <module name="ConstantName">
-            <property name="format" value="^([A-Z][A-Z0-9]*(_[A-Z0-9]+)*|logger)$"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- local, final variables, including catch parameters : ^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$ -->
-        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
-        <!-- local, non-final variables, including catch parameters : ^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$ -->
-        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
-        <!-- non-static fields : ^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$ -->
-        <module name="MemberName"/>
-        <!-- methods : ^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$ -->
-        <module name="MethodName"/>
-        <!-- method type parameters : ^[A-Z]$ -->
-        <module name="MethodTypeParameterName"/>
-        <!-- packages : ^[a-z]+(\.[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)*$ -->
-        <module name="PackageName">
-            <property name="format" value="^[a-z]+(\.[a-z][a-z0-9]*)*$"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- parameters : ^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$ -->
-        <module name="ParameterName"/>
-        <!-- static, non-final fields : ^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$ -->
-        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
-        <!-- classes and interfaces : ^[A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$ -->
-        <module name="TypeName"/>
-
-        <!-- Checks for imports -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_imports.html -->
-        <!-- ****************** -->
-        <!-- Checks that there are no import statements that use the * notation. -->
-        <module name="AvoidStarImport">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-            <!-- allow starred static member imports -->
-            <property name="allowStaticMemberImports" value="true"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks for redundant import statements. -->
-        <module name="RedundantImport">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks for unused import statements. -->
-        <module name="UnusedImports">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <!-- Checks for Size Violations -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_sizes.html -->
-        <!-- ************************** -->
-        <module name="LineLength">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-            <property name="max" value="175"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks for the number of types declared at the outer (or root) level in a file. -->
-        <module name="OuterTypeNumber"/>
-
-        <!-- Checks for whitespaces -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_whitespace.html -->
-        <!-- ********************** -->
-        <!-- Checks the padding of an empty for iterator; that is whether a space is required at an empty for iterator, or such spaces are forbidden. -->
-        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks the padding between the identifier of a method definition, constructor definition, method call, or constructor invocation; and the left parenthesis of the parameter list. -->
-        <module name="MethodParamPad">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks that there is no whitespace after a token. -->
-        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks that there is no whitespace before a token. -->
-        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks line wrapping for operators. -->
-        <module name="OperatorWrap">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks that the whitespace around the Generic tokens < and > is correct to the typical convention. -->
-        <module name="GenericWhitespace">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks the policy on the padding of parentheses. -->
-        <module name="ParenPad">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks the policy on the padding of parentheses for typecasts. -->
-        <module name="TypecastParenPad">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks that a token is followed by whitespace. -->
-        <module name="WhitespaceAfter">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks that a token is surrounded by whitespace. -->
-        <module name="WhitespaceAround">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <!-- Modifier Checks -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_modifier.html -->
-        <!-- *************** -->
-        <!-- Checks that the order of modifiers conforms to the suggestions in the Java Language specification -->
-        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
-        <!-- Checks for redundant modifiers -->
-        <module name="RedundantModifier">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <!-- Checks for blocks -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_blocks.html -->
-        <!-- ***************** -->
-        <!-- Finds nested blocks, i.e. blocks that are used freely in the code. -->
-        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks for empty blocks. -->
-        <module name="EmptyBlock">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks for the placement of left curly braces ('{') for code blocks. Default: eol -->
-        <module name="LeftCurly">
-            <property name="maxLineLength" value="175"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks for braces around code blocks. -->
-        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
-        <!-- Checks the placement of right curly braces ('}') for else, try, and catch tokens. Default: same -->
-        <module name="RightCurly"/>
-
-        <!-- Checks for common coding problems -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_coding.html -->
-        <!-- ********************************* -->
-        <!-- Checks that classes that define a covariant equals() method also override method equals(java.lang.Object). -->
-        <module name="CovariantEquals"/>
-        <!-- Detects empty statements (standalone ;). -->
-        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
-        <!-- Checks that classes that override equals() also override hashCode(). -->
-        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
-        <!-- Checks that a local variable or a parameter does not shadow a field that is defined in the same class. -->
-        <module name="HiddenField">
-            <property name="ignoreConstructorParameter" value="true"/>
-            <property name="ignoreSetter" value="true"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks for assignments in subexpressions. -->
-        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
-        <!-- Check for ensuring that for loop control variables are not modified inside the for block. -->
-        <module name="ModifiedControlVariable"/>
-        <!-- Checks for overly complicated boolean expressions. -->
-        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks for overly complicated boolean return statements. -->
-        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks that string literals are not used with == or !=.  -->
-        <module name="StringLiteralEquality"/>
-        <!-- This check can be used to ensure that types are not declared to be thrown. Declaring to throw java.lang.Error or java.lang.RuntimeException is almost never acceptable. -->
-        <module name="IllegalThrows">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Ensure a class is has a package declaration, and (optionally) whether the package name matches the directory name for the source file. -->
-        <module name="PackageDeclaration"/>
-        <!-- Checks that particular class are never used as types in variable declarations, return values or parameters. Includes a pattern check that by default disallows abstract classes. -->
-        <module name="IllegalType">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks for the order of the parts of a class. -->
-        <module name="DeclarationOrder">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Disallow assignment of parameters. -->
-        <module name="ParameterAssignment"/>
-        <!-- Checks if any class or object member explicitly initialized to default for its type value. -->
-        <module name="ExplicitInitialization">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Check that the default is after all the cases in a switch statement. -->
-        <module name="DefaultComesLast"/>
-        <!-- Checks for fall through in switch statements Finds locations where a case contains Java code - but lacks a break, return, throw or continue statement. -->
-        <module name="FallThrough"/>
-        <!-- Checks that each variable declaration is in its own statement and on its own line. -->
-        <module name="MultipleVariableDeclarations"/>
-        <!-- Checks there is only one statement per line. -->
-        <module name="OneStatementPerLine"/>
-
-        <!-- Checks for class design -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_design.html -->
-        <!-- *********************** -->
-        <!-- Checks visibility of class members. Only static final members may be public. -->
-        <module name="VisibilityModifier">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks that a class which has only private constructors is declared as final. -->
-        <module name="FinalClass">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Make sure that utility classes (classes that contain only static methods or fields in their API) do not have a public constructor. -->
-        <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Use Interfaces only to define types. -->
-        <module name="InterfaceIsType">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Ensures that exceptions are immutable. -->
-        <module name="MutableException"/>
-        <!-- Check nested (internal) classes/interfaces are declared at the bottom of the class after all method and field declarations. -->
-        <module name="InnerTypeLast">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_misc.html -->
-        <!-- ************************** -->
-        <!-- Checks the style of array type definitions. -->
-        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks correct indentation of Java Code. -->
-        <module name="Indentation">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Checks that long constants are defined with an upper ell. That is ' L' and not 'l'. -->
-        <module name="UpperEll"/>
-        <!-- Checks that the outer type name and the file name match. -->
-        <module name="OuterTypeFilename"/>
-
-        <!-- Checks for annotations -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_annotation.html -->
-        <!-- ********************** -->
-        <!-- This check controls the style with the usage of annotations. -->
-        <module name="AnnotationUseStyle">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Verifies that both the java.lang.Deprecated annotation is present and the @deprecated Javadoc tag is present when either is present. -->
-        <module name="MissingDeprecated">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- Verifies that the java.lang.Override annotation is present when the {@inheritDoc} javadoc tag is present. -->
-        <module name="MissingOverride">
-            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-    </module>
-</module>
diff --git a/config/checkstyle/suppressions.xml b/config/checkstyle/suppressions.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index efd97d8060..0000000000
--- a/config/checkstyle/suppressions.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC
-        "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.1//EN"
-        "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd">
-
-<suppressions>
-</suppressions>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/pmd/pmd.xml b/config/pmd/pmd.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 73ad0e5fcc..0000000000
--- a/config/pmd/pmd.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<ruleset name="Terasology PMD ruleset"
-         xmlns="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0"
-         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-         xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0 http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset_2_0_0.xsd">
-  <description>
-    Terasology PMD ruleset
-  </description>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/java/basic.xml"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/java/braces.xml"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/java/clone.xml"/>
-  <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/java/codesize.xml"/> -->
-  <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/java/controversial.xml"/> -->
-  <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/java/coupling.xml"/> -->
-  <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/java/design.xml"/> -->
-  <rule ref="rulesets/java/finalizers.xml"/>
-  <!-- rule ref="rulesets/java/imports.xml"/> -->
-  <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/java/javabeans.xml"/> -->
-  <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/java/junit.xml"/> -->
-  <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/java/logging-jakarta-commons.xml"/> -->
-  <rule ref="rulesets/java/logging-java.xml">
-      <exclude name="GuardLogStatementJavaUtil"/>
-  </rule>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/java/migrating.xml"/>
-  <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/java/naming.xml"/> -->
-  <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/java/optimizations.xml"/> -->
-  <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/java/strictexception.xml"/> -->
-  <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/java/strings.xml"/> -->
-  <rule ref="rulesets/java/sunsecure.xml"/>
-  <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/java/typeresolution.xml"/> -->
-  <rule ref="rulesets/java/unusedcode.xml"/>
-  <exclude-pattern>.*/org.terasology.protobuf/.*</exclude-pattern>
-</ruleset>
diff --git a/gradle/common.gradle b/gradle/common.gradle
index 4966de2eff..facf8e75a0 100644
--- a/gradle/common.gradle
+++ b/gradle/common.gradle
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+// Analytics
+apply plugin: 'project-report'
+apply plugin: 'checkstyle'
+apply plugin: 'pmd'
+apply plugin: 'com.github.spotbugs'
+
 java {
     withSourcesJar()
     withJavadocJar()
@@ -6,6 +12,9 @@ java {
     targetCompatibility(JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8)
 }
 
+// Extract analytics config files if needed (note: does not help IDE execution or cases like 'gradlew spotbugsMain')
+check.dependsOn rootProject.extractAnalyticsConfig
+
 // We use both Maven Central and our own Artifactory instance, which contains module builds, extra libs, and so on
 repositories {
     // For development so you can publish binaries locally and have them grabbed from there
@@ -32,12 +41,6 @@ repositories {
             allowInsecureProtocol true  // 😱
         }
     }
-
-    maven {
-        name "snowplow (pre-0.9)"
-        url "http://maven.snplow.com/releases"
-        allowInsecureProtocol true  // 😱
-    }
 }
 
 // Extra details provided for unit tests
@@ -61,6 +64,34 @@ javadoc {
     failOnError = false
 }
 
+checkstyle {
+    ignoreFailures = true
+    configFile = new File(rootDir, 'gradle/analytics/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml')
+    configProperties.samedir = checkstyle.configFile.parentFile
+}
+
+pmd {
+    ignoreFailures = true
+    ruleSetFiles = files("$rootDir/gradle/analytics/pmd/pmd.xml")
+    // By default, gradle uses both ruleset file AND the rulesets. Override the ruleSets to use only those from the file
+    ruleSets = []
+}
+
+spotbugs {
+    toolVersion = '4.0.0'
+    ignoreFailures = true
+    excludeFilter = new File(rootDir, "gradle/analytics/findbugs/findbugs-exclude.xml")
+}
+
+spotbugsMain {
+    reports {
+        xml {
+            enabled = true
+            destination = file("$buildDir/reports/spotbugs/main/spotbugs.xml")
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 group = 'org.terasology.nui'
 version = nuiVersion
 
diff --git a/nui/build.gradle b/nui/build.gradle
index bfe9119388..b0be41f23a 100644
--- a/nui/build.gradle
+++ b/nui/build.gradle
@@ -33,5 +33,4 @@ dependencies {
 
 test {
     useJUnitPlatform()
-
 }