diff --git a/paper-api/pom.xml b/paper-api/pom.xml
index 67e7e4a251..61e82a334d 100644
--- a/paper-api/pom.xml
+++ b/paper-api/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
     <groupId>org.bukkit</groupId>
     <artifactId>bukkit</artifactId>
-    <version>1.18-pre8-R0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.18-rc3-R0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>Bukkit</name>
@@ -30,6 +30,20 @@
         </snapshotRepository>
     </distributionManagement>
 
+    <repositories>
+        <repository>
+            <id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
+            <name>Sonatype Nexus Snapshots</name>
+            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
+            <releases>
+                <enabled>false</enabled>
+            </releases>
+            <snapshots>
+                <enabled>true</enabled>
+            </snapshots>
+        </repository>
+    </repositories>
+
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
@@ -54,7 +68,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
             <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
-            <version>1.28</version>
+            <version>1.30-SNAPSHOT</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
         <!-- not part of the API proper -->