diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0ea7a9e261..e66eebb5a1 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@
     "moment": "*",
     "stripe": "*",
     "async": "*",
-    "underscore": "*",
-    "clone": "*",
+    "lodash": "*",
     "coffee-script": "*"
   },
   "private": true,
diff --git a/src/app/index.coffee b/src/app/index.coffee
index 8e882c5b3f..94942ee76f 100644
--- a/src/app/index.coffee
+++ b/src/app/index.coffee
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ scoring = require './scoring'
 schema = require './schema'
 helpers = require './helpers'
 helpers.viewHelpers view
-_ = require('underscore')
+_ = require('lodash')
 
 
 # ========== ROUTES ==========
diff --git a/src/app/schema.coffee b/src/app/schema.coffee
index dd28aa4f61..99e1d6b7a7 100644
--- a/src/app/schema.coffee
+++ b/src/app/schema.coffee
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 content = require './content'
 moment = require 'moment'
-_ = require 'underscore'
+_ = require 'lodash'
 
 userSchema = {
   balance: 2
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ userSchema = {
 
 module.exports.newUserObject = ->
   # deep clone, else further new users get duplicate objects
-  newUser = require('clone')(userSchema, true) #deep
+  newUser = _.cloneDeep(userSchema)
   for task in content.defaultTasks
     guid = task.id = require('racer').uuid()
     newUser.tasks[guid] = task
diff --git a/src/app/scoring.coffee b/src/app/scoring.coffee
index d33aff20ee..c1ef1512e0 100644
--- a/src/app/scoring.coffee
+++ b/src/app/scoring.coffee
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 async = require 'async'
 moment = require 'moment'
-_ = require 'underscore'
+_ = require 'lodash'
 content = require './content'
 helpers = require './helpers'
 MODIFIER = .03 # each new level, armor, weapon add 3% modifier (this number may change) 
diff --git a/src/server/serverRoutes.coffee b/src/server/serverRoutes.coffee
index ddd856bb05..b0243699f9 100644
--- a/src/server/serverRoutes.coffee
+++ b/src/server/serverRoutes.coffee
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 scoring = require('../app/scoring')
-_ = require('underscore')
+_ = require('lodash')
 
 module.exports = (expressApp, root, derby) ->