diff --git a/DMAPI/tgs/core/core.dm b/DMAPI/tgs/core/core.dm
index ffeab4289b..faea16e3b9 100644
--- a/DMAPI/tgs/core/core.dm
+++ b/DMAPI/tgs/core/core.dm
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
 		TGS_WRITE_GLOBAL(tgs, new_api)
 
 /world/proc/SelectTgsApi(tgs_version)
+	//remove the old 3.0 header
+	tgs_version = replacetext(tgs_version, "/tg/station 13 Server v", "")
+	
 	var/list/version_bits = splittext(tgs_version, ".")
 
 	var/super = text2num(version_bits[0])