diff --git a/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/Velocity.java b/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/Velocity.java
index c0a861f92..d00274735 100644
--- a/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/Velocity.java
+++ b/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/Velocity.java
@@ -45,5 +45,10 @@ public class Velocity {
     double bootTime = (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime) / 1000d;
     logger.info("Done ({}s)!", new DecimalFormat("#.##").format(bootTime));
     server.getConsoleCommandSource().start();
+
+    // If we don't have a console available (because SimpleTerminalConsole returned), then we still
+    // need to wait, otherwise the JVM will reap us as no non-daemon threads will be active once the
+    // main thread exits.
+    server.awaitProxyShutdown();
   }
 }
diff --git a/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/VelocityServer.java b/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/VelocityServer.java
index 865b13036..0c3e54735 100644
--- a/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/VelocityServer.java
+++ b/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/VelocityServer.java
@@ -138,6 +138,10 @@ public class VelocityServer implements ProxyServer {
     return commandManager;
   }
 
+  void awaitProxyShutdown() {
+    cm.getBossGroup().terminationFuture().syncUninterruptibly();
+  }
+
   @EnsuresNonNull({"serverKeyPair", "servers", "pluginManager", "eventManager", "scheduler",
       "console", "cm", "configuration"})
   void start() {
diff --git a/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/network/ConnectionManager.java b/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/network/ConnectionManager.java
index f5ef6ea81..e74e3e893 100644
--- a/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/network/ConnectionManager.java
+++ b/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/network/ConnectionManager.java
@@ -160,6 +160,10 @@ public final class ConnectionManager {
     }
   }
 
+  public EventLoopGroup getBossGroup() {
+    return bossGroup;
+  }
+
   public ServerChannelInitializerHolder getServerChannelInitializer() {
     return this.serverChannelInitializer;
   }