diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index cee78cf..e69de29 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "xrfragment"]
-	path = xrfragment
-	url = https://codeberg.org/coderofsalvation/xrfragment
diff --git a/manyfold/README.md b/manyfold/README.md
index ce06492..8bd650d 100644
--- a/manyfold/README.md
+++ b/manyfold/README.md
@@ -3,9 +3,22 @@
 The XRForge-serverimage is a pre-configured [Manyfold](https://manyfold.app) container (reproducably via [nix](https://nixos.org) dockertools).
 It also contains some extra's, to better fit an XR audience & enable community libraries.
 
-> To run the container, see the [sysadmin](https://manyfold.app/sysadmin/) documentation of the [manyfold](https://github.com/manyfold3d/manyfold) project.
+> To run the container, see the docker-cmd below [sysadmin](https://manyfold.app/sysadmin/) documentation of the [manyfold](https://github.com/manyfold3d/manyfold) project.
 
-# Build/Run the container-image
+```
+$ docker run -t xrforge docker.io/coderofsalvation/xrforge:latest
+```
+
+To persist data:
+
+```
+$ mkdir mnt config
+$ docker run -t xrforge docker.io/coderofsalvation/xrforge:latest -v ./mnt:/mnt -v ./config:/config
+```
+
+# Build & Run the container-image
+
+> **NOTE**: [nix](https://nixos.org) is used to promote reproducability-over-repeatability
 
 ```bash
 $ git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 https://codeberg.org/coderofsalvation/xrforge.git 
@@ -21,7 +34,7 @@ sending incremental file list
 ...
 ```
 
-> NOTE: if you don't want the default XR Fragments asset-library, omit `--recurse-submodules` in the git cmd and `-v ./xrfragment....` in the docker cmd.
+> NOTE: if you don't want the default XR Fragments asset-library, omit `--recurse-submodules` in the git cmd
 
 To preserve your uploaded models, add the `experiences` as a docker volume-flag, for example:
 
@@ -39,8 +52,10 @@ $ manyfold/cli/manyfold run -v ./experiences:/mnt/experiences
 | `HOMEPAGE`            | `/models`    | show '/models' URL as homepage (use `/` for manyfold default) |
 | `THEME`               | `default`    | bootstrap theme        |
 | `RUNTESTS`            | `0`          | set to `1` to run XRForge related [/test](test) scripts |
+| `NO_PUBLIC_ONLY`      | ``           | disable public only models |
 | `NO_OVERLAYFS`        | ``           | disable the filesystem overlay mechanism |
-| `NO_DEFAULTDB`        | ``           | disable the default db (activates manyfold installer) |
+| `NO_DEFAULTDB`        | ``           | disable the default xrforge db (activates manyfold installer) |
+| `NO_ASSETS`           | ``           | disable downloading assets from xrfragment.org repository |
 | `NO_DELETEBIGFILES`   | ``           | disable deleting big files which are older than 5 days and bigger than ($currentyear-2020) MB's |
 | `NO_PACKAGEALL`       | ``           | don't package all experiences every hour to /usr/src/app/public/experiences.zip |
 | `RCLONE_REMOTE`       | ``           | specify **single** rclone remote name (without semicolon) to mount (default: mount all rclone remotes)|
diff --git a/manyfold/cli/manyfold.sh b/manyfold/cli/manyfold.sh
index 595dcdd..f236d7e 100755
--- a/manyfold/cli/manyfold.sh
+++ b/manyfold/cli/manyfold.sh
@@ -179,12 +179,37 @@ start_syslog(){
 }
 
 scan_libraries(){
-  sleep 20 # wait for manyfold/redis to boot first
+  sleep 10 # wait for manyfold/redis to boot first
   cd /usr/src/app
   echocolor "scanning libraries"
   bin/manyfold libraries scan
 }
 
+rails_query(){
+  cd /usr/src/app
+  echo "$*" | bin/rails console
+}
+
+force_public(){
+  test -n "$NO_PUBLIC_ONLY" && return 0 # nothing to do
+  echocolor "forcing public-only models"
+  infinite 60 rails_query 'Model.find_each { |it| it.grant_permission_to("view", nil) }' &
+}
+
+get_xrfragment_assets(){
+  test -n "$NO_ASSETS" && return 0 # nothing to do here
+  test -d /mnt/assets || {
+    echocolor "fetching XR Fragments assets & templates"
+    mkdir -p /mnt/assets/xrfragment/\#1
+    cd /tmp
+    timeout 50 wget "https://codeberg.org/coderofsalvation/xrfragment/archive/main.zip"
+    unzip main.zip
+    cp -r xrfragment/assets/* /mnt/assets/xrfragment/\#1/.
+    rm -rf main.zip xrfragment
+  }
+  add_lib_to_db /mnt/assets
+}
+
 # The new entrypoint of the docker 
 boot(){
   echocolor "[$APPNAME]" "booting..."
@@ -199,6 +224,8 @@ boot(){
   mount_rclone
   set_upload_path
   start_hook_daemon
+  force_public
+  get_xrfragment_assets
   scan_libraries &
   hook boot # emit unixy hook-event (/root/hook.d/boot/* scripts)
 
diff --git a/manyfold/mnt/assets/xrfragment/#1 b/manyfold/mnt/assets/xrfragment/#1
deleted file mode 120000
index a4dcea9..0000000
--- a/manyfold/mnt/assets/xrfragment/#1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../../xrfragment/assets
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/xrfragment b/xrfragment
deleted file mode 160000
index 7a95d4f..0000000
--- a/xrfragment
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 7a95d4ffbf610d4a82d586eb04edf8c24460a195