diff --git a/packages/games-strategy/openra/openra-20171014.exheres-0 b/packages/games-strategy/openra/openra-20180307.exheres-0
similarity index 95%
rename from packages/games-strategy/openra/openra-20171014.exheres-0
rename to packages/games-strategy/openra/openra-20180307.exheres-0
index 7962eb07..abb151d4 100644
--- a/packages/games-strategy/openra/openra-20171014.exheres-0
+++ b/packages/games-strategy/openra/openra-20180307.exheres-0
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ Open_Nat="${NG_SRC}/Open.NAT/2.1.0 -> Open_Nat-2.1.0.zip"
 FuzzyLogicLibrary="${NG_SRC}/FuzzyLogicLibrary/1.2.0 -> FuzzyLogicLibrary-1.2.0.zip"
 SDL2CS="https://github.com/OpenRA/SDL2-CS/releases/download/20161223/SDL2-CS.dll -> SDL2-CS.dll.20161223"
 Eluant="https://github.com/OpenRA/Eluant/releases/download/20140425/Eluant.dll -> Eluant.dll.20140425"
-SmartIrc4net="${NG_SRC}/SmartIrc4net/0.4.5.1 -> SmartIrc4net-0.4.5.1.zip"
 # unfortunately, this may randomly change
 GEO_IP_DB="http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb.gz -> GeoLite2-Country-2015-10-18.mmdb.gz"
 OpenAL_CS="https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenAL-CS/releases/download/20151227/OpenAL-CS.dll -> OpenAL-CS-20151227.dll"
@@ -42,7 +41,6 @@ ${Open_Nat}
 ${FuzzyLogicLibrary}
 ${SDL2CS}
 ${Eluant}
-${SmartIrc4net}
 ${GEO_IP_DB}
 ${OpenAL_CS}
 ${OpenAL_CS_config}
diff --git a/packages/games-strategy/openra/openra-build.exlib b/packages/games-strategy/openra/openra-build.exlib
index caf1253a..c0e6c6aa 100644
--- a/packages/games-strategy/openra/openra-build.exlib
+++ b/packages/games-strategy/openra/openra-build.exlib
@@ -69,26 +69,27 @@ MV_FILES=(
 openra-build_src_unpack() {
     unpack openra-${SLOT}-${PV}.tar.gz
 
-    # this is pure crapshit, but it will successfully die
-    # if upstream has added/changed files
+    edo mkdir "${WORK}"/thirdparty/download
+
     edo cd "${WORK}"/thirdparty
     edo sed -i \
-        -e 's/get()/furz()/' \
-        -e 's|curl |: |' \
+        -e 's|curl .*$|: |' \
         fetch-thirdparty-deps.sh
 
-    edo mkdir "${WORK}"/thirdparty/download
-    get() {
-        # don't add dies here
-        local archive="${1/./_}"
-        local version="${2}"
-        mkdir -p "${WORK}"/thirdparty/download/${1}
-        unzip -o -qq "${FETCHEDDIR}"/${archive}-${version}.zip \
-            -d "${WORK}"/thirdparty/download/${1}
-    }
-    export -f get
+    cat <<EOF > noget.sh
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+archive="\${1/./_}"
+version="\${2}"
+mkdir -p "${WORK}"/thirdparty/download/\${1}
+unzip -o -qq "${FETCHEDDIR}"/\${archive}-\${version}.zip \
+    -d "${WORK}"/thirdparty/download/\${1}
+EOF
+
     edo ./fetch-thirdparty-deps.sh
-    unset get
+
     edo cd "${WORK}"/thirdparty/download
     edo cp "${FETCHEDDIR}"/${SDL2CS##* } ./SDL2-CS.dll
     edo cp "${FETCHEDDIR}"/${Eluant##* } ./Eluant.dll