diff --git a/.npmignore b/.npmignore
index 243080d9..dd784f7c 100644
--- a/.npmignore
+++ b/.npmignore
@@ -113,3 +113,4 @@ tsconfig-cjs.json
 tsconfig-esm.json
 
 renovate.json
+fortnite
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ffde8ce0..83075b12 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
     "name": "@sern/handler",
     "packageManager": "yarn@3.5.0",
-    "version": "3.3.4",
+    "version": "4.0.0",
     "description": "A complete, customizable, typesafe, & reactive framework for discord bots.",
     "main": "./dist/index.js",
     "module": "./dist/index.js",
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@
     "author": "SernDevs",
     "license": "MIT",
     "dependencies": {
-        "@sern/ioc": "^1.0.4",
+        "@sern/ioc": "^1.1.0",
         "callsites": "^3.1.0",
+        "cron": "^3.1.7",
         "deepmerge": "^4.3.1",
-        "node-cron": "^3.0.3",
         "rxjs": "^7.8.0",
         "ts-results-es": "^4.1.0"
     },
diff --git a/src/core/ioc.ts b/src/core/ioc.ts
index 0f0a7b1a..65a6c587 100644
--- a/src/core/ioc.ts
+++ b/src/core/ioc.ts
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ export async function makeDependencies (conf: ValidDependencyConfig) {
     container.addSingleton('@sern/errors', new __Services.DefaultErrorHandling);
     container.addSingleton('@sern/modules', new Map);
     container.addSingleton('@sern/emitter', new EventEmitter)
-    container.addWiredSingleton('@sern/cron', 
-                         (deps) => new __Services.Cron(deps as unknown as Dependencies))
+    container.addWiredSingleton('@sern/scheduler', 
+                         (deps) => new __Services.CronScheduler(deps as unknown as Dependencies))
     conf(dependencyBuilder(container));
     await container.ready();
 }
diff --git a/src/core/presences.ts b/src/core/presences.ts
index ee2850b7..3dbc9d64 100644
--- a/src/core/presences.ts
+++ b/src/core/presences.ts
@@ -39,10 +39,8 @@ export const Presence = {
              * @example
              * ```ts
              * Presence.of({
-             *          activities: [
-             *              { name: "Chilling out" }
-             *          ]
-             *      }).once() // Sets the presence once, with what's provided in '.of()'
+             *    activities: [{ name: "Chilling out" }]
+             * }).once() // Sets the presence once, with what's provided in '.of()'
              *  ```
              */
             once: () => root
@@ -50,7 +48,7 @@ export const Presence = {
     }
 }
 export declare namespace Presence {
-    type Config<T extends (keyof Dependencies)[]> = {
+    export type Config<T extends (keyof Dependencies)[]> = {
         inject?: [...T]
         execute: (...v: IntoDependencies<T>) => Presence.Result;
 
diff --git a/src/core/schedule.ts b/src/core/schedule.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fea65c49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/schedule.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import { CronJob } from 'cron';
+export class TaskScheduler {
+    private __tasks: Map<string, CronJob> = new Map();
+
+    scheduleTask(taskName: string, cronExpression: string, task: () => void): boolean {
+        if (this.__tasks.has(taskName)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        try {
+          const job = new CronJob(cronExpression, task);
+          job.start();
+          this.__tasks.set(taskName, job);
+          return true;
+        } catch (error) {
+          return false;
+        }
+    }
+  
+    private stopTask(taskName: string): boolean {
+        const job = this.__tasks.get(taskName);
+        if (job) {
+            job.stop();
+            this.__tasks.delete(taskName);
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+  
+    private restartTask(taskName: string): boolean {
+        const job = this.__tasks.get(taskName);
+        if (job) {
+            job.start();
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+
+    tasks(): string[] {
+        return Array.from(this.__tasks.keys());
+    }
+    
+}
diff --git a/src/core/structures/default-services.ts b/src/core/structures/default-services.ts
index 474a6e49..18ddc77f 100644
--- a/src/core/structures/default-services.ts
+++ b/src/core/structures/default-services.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 import type { LogPayload, Logging, ErrorHandling, Emitter } from '../interfaces';
 import { AnyFunction, UnpackedDependencies } from '../../types/utility';
-import cron from 'node-cron'
-import type { CronEventCommand, Module } from '../../types/core-modules'
-import { EventType } from './enums';
+
 /**
  * @internal
  * @since 2.0.0
@@ -42,48 +40,30 @@ export class DefaultLogging implements Logging {
     }
 }
 
-export class Cron implements Emitter {
+export class CronScheduler {
     tasks: string[] = [];
-    modules: Map<string, CronEventCommand> = new Map();
     constructor(private deps: UnpackedDependencies) {}
-    private sanityCheck(eventName: string | symbol) : asserts eventName is string {
-        if(typeof eventName === 'symbol') throw Error("Cron cannot add symbol based listener")
-    }
-    addCronModule(module: Module) {
-        if(module.type !== EventType.Cron) {
-            throw Error("Can only add cron modules");
-        }
-        //@ts-ignore
-        if(!cron.validate(module.pattern)) {
-            throw Error("Invalid cron expression while adding " + module.name)
-        }
-        (module as CronEventCommand)
-        this.modules.set(module.name!, module as CronEventCommand); 
-    }
-    addListener(eventName: string | symbol, listener: AnyFunction): this {
-        this.sanityCheck(eventName);
-        const retrievedModule = this.modules.get(eventName);
-        if(!retrievedModule) throw Error("Adding task: module " +eventName +"was not found");
-        const { pattern, name, runOnInit, timezone } = retrievedModule;
-        cron.schedule(pattern, 
-            (date) => listener({ date, deps: this.deps }),
-            { name, runOnInit, timezone, scheduled: true });
-        return this;
-    }
-    removeListener(eventName: string | symbol, listener: AnyFunction) {
-        this.sanityCheck(eventName);
-        const retrievedModule = this.modules.get(eventName);
-        if(!retrievedModule) throw Error("Removing cron: module " +eventName +"was not found");
-        const task = cron.getTasks().get(retrievedModule.name!) 
-        if(!task) throw Error("Finding cron task with"+ retrievedModule.name + " not found");
-        task.stop();
-        return this;
-    }
-    emit(eventName: string | symbol, ...payload: any[]): boolean {
-        this.sanityCheck(eventName);
-        const retrievedModule = this.modules.get(eventName);
-        if(!retrievedModule) throw Error("Removing cron: module " +eventName +"was not found");
-        const task= cron.getTasks().get(retrievedModule.name!) 
-        return task?.emit(eventName, payload) ?? false;
-    }
+//    addListener(eventName: string | symbol, listener: AnyFunction): this {
+//        const retrievedModule = this.modules.get(eventName);
+//        if(!retrievedModule) throw Error("Adding task: module " +eventName +"was not found");
+//        const { pattern, name, runOnInit, timezone } = retrievedModule;
+//        cron.schedule(pattern, 
+//            (date) => listener({ date, deps: this.deps }),
+//            { name, runOnInit, timezone, scheduled: true });
+//        return this;
+//    }
+//    removeListener(eventName: string | symbol, listener: AnyFunction) {
+//        const retrievedModule = this.modules.get(eventName);
+//        if(!retrievedModule) throw Error("Removing cron: module " +eventName +"was not found");
+//        const task = cron.getTasks().get(retrievedModule.name!) 
+//        if(!task) throw Error("Finding cron task with"+ retrievedModule.name + " not found");
+//        task.stop();
+//        return this;
+//    }
+//    emit(eventName: string | symbol, ...payload: any[]): boolean {
+//        const retrievedModule = this.modules.get(eventName);
+//        if(!retrievedModule) throw Error("Removing cron: module " +eventName +"was not found");
+//        const task= cron.getTasks().get(retrievedModule.name!) 
+//        return task?.emit(eventName, payload) ?? false;
+//    }
 }
diff --git a/src/core/structures/enums.ts b/src/core/structures/enums.ts
index 2990c2e7..83675a77 100644
--- a/src/core/structures/enums.ts
+++ b/src/core/structures/enums.ts
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ export enum EventType {
      * Could be for example, `process` events, database events
      */
     External,
-    Cron
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/handlers/event-utils.ts b/src/handlers/event-utils.ts
index 2f2f17a3..a6a4089d 100644
--- a/src/handlers/event-utils.ts
+++ b/src/handlers/event-utils.ts
@@ -262,10 +262,9 @@ export function intoTask(onStop: (m: Module) => unknown) {
     return createResultResolver({ onStop, onNext });
 }
 
-export const handleCrash = 
-    ({ "@sern/errors": err, '@sern/emitter': sem, '@sern/logger': log } : UnpackedDependencies) => 
+export const handleCrash = ({ "@sern/errors": err, '@sern/emitter': sem, '@sern/logger': log } : UnpackedDependencies, metadata: string) => 
     pipe(catchError(handleError(err, sem, log)),
          finalize(() => {
-            log?.info({ message: 'A stream closed or reached end of lifetime' });
+            log?.info({ message: 'A stream closed: ' + metadata  });
             disposeAll(log);
          }))
diff --git a/src/handlers/interaction.ts b/src/handlers/interaction.ts
index e09eeef5..6b57e415 100644
--- a/src/handlers/interaction.ts
+++ b/src/handlers/interaction.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import type { Interaction } from 'discord.js';
 import { mergeMap, merge, concatMap, EMPTY } from 'rxjs';
-import { createInteractionHandler, executeModule, intoTask, sharedEventStream, filterTap } from './event-utils';
+import { createInteractionHandler, executeModule, intoTask, sharedEventStream, filterTap, handleCrash } from './event-utils';
 import { SernError } from '../core/structures/enums'
 import { isAutocomplete, isCommand, isMessageComponent, isModal, resultPayload } from '../core/functions'
 import { UnpackedDependencies } from '../types/utility';
@@ -25,5 +25,6 @@ export default function interactionHandler(deps: UnpackedDependencies, defaultPr
                   if(payload)
                     return executeModule(emitter, payload)
                   return EMPTY;
-              }));
+              }),
+              handleCrash(deps, "interaction handling"));
 }
diff --git a/src/handlers/message.ts b/src/handlers/message.ts
index 60b3b8de..4fac7d2e 100644
--- a/src/handlers/message.ts
+++ b/src/handlers/message.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { EMPTY, mergeMap, concatMap } from 'rxjs';
 import type { Message } from 'discord.js';
-import { createMessageHandler, executeModule, intoTask, sharedEventStream, filterTap} from './event-utils';
+import { createMessageHandler, executeModule, intoTask, sharedEventStream, filterTap, handleCrash} from './event-utils';
 import { SernError } from '../core/structures/enums'
 import { resultPayload } from '../core/functions'
 import { UnpackedDependencies } from '../types/utility';
@@ -44,5 +44,7 @@ function (deps: UnpackedDependencies, defaultPrefix?: string) {
             if(payload)
                 return executeModule(emitter, payload)
             return EMPTY;
-        }));
+        }),
+        handleCrash(deps, "message handling")
+    )
 }
diff --git a/src/handlers/tasks.ts b/src/handlers/tasks.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..441b1cf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/handlers/tasks.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import { TaskScheduler } from "../core/schedule"
+import * as Files from '../core/module-loading'
+import { UnpackedDependencies } from "../types/utility";
+
+interface ScheduledTaskModule {
+    name?: string;
+    description?: string;
+    pattern: string;
+    execute(deps: UnpackedDependencies, tasks: string[]): any
+}
+
+export const registerTasks = async (path: string, deps: UnpackedDependencies) => {
+    const taskManager = new TaskScheduler()
+
+    for await (const f of Files.readRecursive(path)) {
+        let { module } = await Files.importModule<ScheduledTaskModule>(f);
+        //module.name is assigned by Files.importModule<>
+        taskManager.scheduleTask(module.name!, module.pattern, () => {
+            module.execute(deps, taskManager.tasks())
+        })
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/handlers/user-defined-events.ts b/src/handlers/user-defined-events.ts
index ebbe4b9b..aea565a5 100644
--- a/src/handlers/user-defined-events.ts
+++ b/src/handlers/user-defined-events.ts
@@ -14,12 +14,6 @@ const intoDispatcher = (deps: UnpackedDependencies) =>
                 return eventDispatcher(deps, module,  deps['@sern/client']);
             case EventType.External:
                 return eventDispatcher(deps, module,  deps[module.emitter]);
-            case EventType.Cron: {
-                //@ts-ignore
-                const cron = deps['@sern/cron'];
-                cron.addCronModule(module);
-                return eventDispatcher(deps, module, cron);
-            }
             default: throw Error(SernError.InvalidModuleType + ' while creating event handler');
         }
 };
@@ -34,6 +28,6 @@ export default async function(deps: UnpackedDependencies, eventDir: string) {
     from(eventModules)
         .pipe(map(intoDispatcher(deps)),
                mergeAll(), // all eventListeners are turned on
-               handleCrash(deps))
+               handleCrash(deps, "event modules"))
             .subscribe();
 }
diff --git a/src/sern.ts b/src/sern.ts
index 07f50a9d..72ea4b3d 100644
--- a/src/sern.ts
+++ b/src/sern.ts
@@ -12,11 +12,13 @@ import { presenceHandler } from './handlers/presence';
 import { handleCrash } from './handlers/event-utils';
 import { UnpackedDependencies } from './types/utility';
 import type { Presence} from './core/presences';
+import { registerTasks } from './handlers/tasks';
 
 interface Wrapper {
     commands: string;
     defaultPrefix?: string;
     events?: string;
+    tasks?: string;
 }
 /**
  * @since 1.0.0
@@ -57,11 +59,14 @@ export function init(maybeWrapper: Wrapper = { commands: "./dist/commands" }) {
                 }
                 presenceHandler(presencePath.path, setPresence).subscribe();
             }
+            if(maybeWrapper.tasks) {
+                registerTasks(maybeWrapper.tasks, deps);
+            }
         })
         .catch(err => { throw err });
 
     const messages$ = messageHandler(deps, maybeWrapper.defaultPrefix);
     const interactions$ = interactionHandler(deps, maybeWrapper.defaultPrefix);
     // listening to the message stream and interaction stream
-    merge(messages$, interactions$).pipe(handleCrash(deps)).subscribe();
+    merge(messages$, interactions$).subscribe();
 }
diff --git a/src/types/core-modules.ts b/src/types/core-modules.ts
index 8437fe2e..a9bf143b 100644
--- a/src/types/core-modules.ts
+++ b/src/types/core-modules.ts
@@ -58,14 +58,7 @@ export interface ExternalEventCommand extends Module {
     type: EventType.External;
     execute(...args: unknown[]): Awaitable<unknown>;
 }
-export interface CronEventCommand extends Module { 
-    type: EventType.Cron;
-    name?: string;
-    pattern: string;
-    runOnInit?: boolean
-    timezone?: string;
-    execute(...args: unknown[]): Awaitable<unknown>;
-}
+
 
 export interface ContextMenuUser extends Module {
     type: CommandType.CtxUser;
@@ -142,7 +135,7 @@ export interface BothCommand extends Module {
     execute: (ctx: Context, tbd: SDT) => Awaitable<unknown>;
 }
 
-export type EventModule = DiscordEventCommand | SernEventCommand | ExternalEventCommand  | CronEventCommand;
+export type EventModule = DiscordEventCommand | SernEventCommand | ExternalEventCommand;  
 export type CommandModule =
     | TextCommand
     | SlashCommand
@@ -178,7 +171,6 @@ export interface EventModuleDefs {
     [EventType.Sern]: SernEventCommand;
     [EventType.Discord]: DiscordEventCommand;
     [EventType.External]: ExternalEventCommand;
-    [EventType.Cron]: CronEventCommand;
 }
 
 export interface SernAutocompleteData
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 064b9d75..177077c4 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -546,16 +546,16 @@ __metadata:
   resolution: "@sern/handler@workspace:."
   dependencies:
     "@faker-js/faker": ^8.0.1
-    "@sern/ioc": ^1.0.4
+    "@sern/ioc": ^1.1.0
     "@types/node": ^20.0.0
     "@types/node-cron": ^3.0.11
     "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": 5.58.0
     "@typescript-eslint/parser": 5.59.1
     callsites: ^3.1.0
+    cron: ^3.1.7
     deepmerge: ^4.3.1
     discord.js: ^14.15.3
     eslint: 8.39.0
-    node-cron: ^3.0.3
     rxjs: ^7.8.0
     ts-results-es: ^4.1.0
     typescript: 5.0.2
@@ -563,10 +563,10 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: unknown
   linkType: soft
 
-"@sern/ioc@npm:^1.0.4":
-  version: 1.0.4
-  resolution: "@sern/ioc@npm:1.0.4"
-  checksum: 3d1a63099b3e8ff0d44bb73007b1d66c3f3b27cf7a193c2d9122e021cb72be1ced535ea98efaf72602f371a489177e3b144ed72da8d7de80887c0408ce79cce2
+"@sern/ioc@npm:^1.1.0":
+  version: 1.1.0
+  resolution: "@sern/ioc@npm:1.1.0"
+  checksum: 0882ef51c3fcd28e7fe803762f2a8d7eb3dca4e494d3475ef7d4a43158d3b24243bda3679c3d58485c89bdc820719d22351007503e44b5cf8e6f2d0efe342921
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
@@ -591,6 +591,13 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
+"@types/luxon@npm:~3.4.0":
+  version: 3.4.2
+  resolution: "@types/luxon@npm:3.4.2"
+  checksum: 6f92d5bd02e89f310395753506bcd9cef3a56f5940f7a50db2a2b9822bce753553ac767d143cb5b4f9ed5ddd4a84e64f89ff538082ceb4d18739af7781b56925
+  languageName: node
+  linkType: hard
+
 "@types/node-cron@npm:^3.0.11":
   version: 3.0.11
   resolution: "@types/node-cron@npm:3.0.11"
@@ -1120,6 +1127,16 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
+"cron@npm:^3.1.7":
+  version: 3.1.7
+  resolution: "cron@npm:3.1.7"
+  dependencies:
+    "@types/luxon": ~3.4.0
+    luxon: ~3.4.0
+  checksum: d98ee5297543c138221d96dd49270bf6576db80134e6041f4ce4a3c0cb6060863d76910209b34fee66fbf134461449ec3bd283d6a76d1c50da220cde7fc10c65
+  languageName: node
+  linkType: hard
+
 "cross-spawn@npm:^7.0.0, cross-spawn@npm:^7.0.2, cross-spawn@npm:^7.0.3":
   version: 7.0.3
   resolution: "cross-spawn@npm:7.0.3"
@@ -2065,6 +2082,13 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
+"luxon@npm:~3.4.0":
+  version: 3.4.4
+  resolution: "luxon@npm:3.4.4"
+  checksum: 36c1f99c4796ee4bfddf7dc94fa87815add43ebc44c8934c924946260a58512f0fd2743a629302885df7f35ccbd2d13f178c15df046d0e3b6eb71db178f1c60c
+  languageName: node
+  linkType: hard
+
 "magic-bytes.js@npm:^1.10.0":
   version: 1.10.0
   resolution: "magic-bytes.js@npm:1.10.0"
@@ -2292,15 +2316,6 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
-"node-cron@npm:^3.0.3":
-  version: 3.0.3
-  resolution: "node-cron@npm:3.0.3"
-  dependencies:
-    uuid: 8.3.2
-  checksum: 351c37491ebf717d0ae69cc941465de118e5c2ef5d48bc3f87c98556241b060f100402c8a618c7b86f9f626b44756b20d8b5385b70e52f80716f21e55db0f1c5
-  languageName: node
-  linkType: hard
-
 "node-gyp@npm:latest":
   version: 10.1.0
   resolution: "node-gyp@npm:10.1.0"
@@ -3074,15 +3089,6 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
-"uuid@npm:8.3.2":
-  version: 8.3.2
-  resolution: "uuid@npm:8.3.2"
-  bin:
-    uuid: dist/bin/uuid
-  checksum: 5575a8a75c13120e2f10e6ddc801b2c7ed7d8f3c8ac22c7ed0c7b2ba6383ec0abda88c905085d630e251719e0777045ae3236f04c812184b7c765f63a70e58df
-  languageName: node
-  linkType: hard
-
 "vite-node@npm:1.6.0":
   version: 1.6.0
   resolution: "vite-node@npm:1.6.0"