diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index e2ac7c73..1a078550 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@
 [submodule "3rdparty/xash-extras"]
 	path = 3rdparty/extras/xash-extras
 	url = https://github.com/FWGS/xash-extras
+[submodule "3rdparty/bzip2/bzip2"]
+	path = 3rdparty/bzip2/bzip2
+	url = https://gitlab.com/bzip2/bzip2
diff --git a/3rdparty/bzip2/bzip2 b/3rdparty/bzip2/bzip2
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..66c46b8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/3rdparty/bzip2/bzip2
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 66c46b8c9436613fd81bc5d03f63a61933a4dcc3