diff --git a/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/DiscordShardedClient.cs b/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/DiscordShardedClient.cs
index 4e2b6f324..39bcbbd81 100644
--- a/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/DiscordShardedClient.cs
+++ b/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/DiscordShardedClient.cs
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ namespace Discord.WebSocket
             for (int i = 0; i < _shards.Length; i++)
                 await _shards[i].LoginAsync(tokenType, token);
 
-            if(_defaultStickers.Length == 0)
+            if(_defaultStickers.Length == 0 && _baseConfig.AlwaysDownloadDefaultStickers)
                 await DownloadDefaultStickersAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
 
         }
diff --git a/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/DiscordSocketClient.cs b/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/DiscordSocketClient.cs
index 66a614980..7460a3aa7 100644
--- a/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/DiscordSocketClient.cs
+++ b/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/DiscordSocketClient.cs
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ namespace Discord.WebSocket
         private Optional<IActivity> _activity;
         #endregion
 
-        //From DiscordSocketConfig
+        // From DiscordSocketConfig
         internal int TotalShards { get; private set; }
         internal int MessageCacheSize { get; private set; }
         internal int LargeThreshold { get; private set; }
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ namespace Discord.WebSocket
         internal WebSocketProvider WebSocketProvider { get; private set; }
         internal bool AlwaysDownloadUsers { get; private set; }
         internal int? HandlerTimeout { get; private set; }
+        internal bool AlwaysDownloadDefaultStickers { get; private set; }
+        internal bool AlwaysResolveStickers { get; private set; }
         internal new DiscordSocketApiClient ApiClient => base.ApiClient;
         /// <inheritdoc />
         public override IReadOnlyCollection<SocketGuild> Guilds => State.Guilds;
@@ -143,6 +145,8 @@ namespace Discord.WebSocket
             UdpSocketProvider = config.UdpSocketProvider;
             WebSocketProvider = config.WebSocketProvider;
             AlwaysDownloadUsers = config.AlwaysDownloadUsers;
+            AlwaysDownloadDefaultStickers = config.AlwaysDownloadDefaultStickers;
+            AlwaysResolveStickers = config.AlwaysResolveStickers;
             HandlerTimeout = config.HandlerTimeout;
             State = new ClientState(0, 0);
             Rest = new DiscordSocketRestClient(config, ApiClient);
@@ -209,7 +213,7 @@ namespace Discord.WebSocket
 
         internal override async Task OnLoginAsync(TokenType tokenType, string token)
         {
-            if(_shardedClient == null && _defaultStickers.Length == 0)
+            if (_shardedClient == null && _defaultStickers.Length == 0 && AlwaysDownloadDefaultStickers)
             {
                 var models = await ApiClient.ListNitroStickerPacksAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
 
diff --git a/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/DiscordSocketConfig.cs b/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/DiscordSocketConfig.cs
index 6946a02b5..8615eac71 100644
--- a/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/DiscordSocketConfig.cs
+++ b/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/DiscordSocketConfig.cs
@@ -49,8 +49,31 @@ namespace Discord.WebSocket
         /// <summary>
         ///     Gets or sets the total number of shards for this application.
         /// </summary>
+        /// <remarks>
+        ///     If this is left <see langword="null"/> in a sharded client the bot will get the recommended shard
+        ///     count from discord and use that.
+        /// </remarks>
         public int? TotalShards { get; set; } = null;
 
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     Gets or sets whether or not the client should download the default stickers on startup.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <remarks>
+        ///     When this is set to <see langword="false"/> default stickers arn't present and cannot be resolved by the client.
+        ///     This will make all default stickers have the type of <see cref="SocketUnknownSticker"/>.
+        /// </remarks>
+        public bool AlwaysDownloadDefaultStickers { get; set; } = false;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     Gets or sets whether or not the client should automatically resolve the stickers sent on a message.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <remarks>
+        ///     Note if a sticker isn't cached the client will preform a rest request to resolve it. This
+        ///     may be very rest heavy depending on your bots size, it isn't recommended to use this with large scale bots as you
+        ///     can get ratelimited easily.
+        /// </remarks>
+        public bool AlwaysResolveStickers { get; set; } = false;
+
         /// <summary>
         ///     Gets or sets the number of messages per channel that should be kept in cache. Setting this to zero
         ///     disables the message cache entirely.
diff --git a/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/Entities/Messages/SocketUserMessage.cs b/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/Entities/Messages/SocketUserMessage.cs
index e8f5604c4..e5776a089 100644
--- a/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/Entities/Messages/SocketUserMessage.cs
+++ b/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/Entities/Messages/SocketUserMessage.cs
@@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ namespace Discord.WebSocket
                         if (sticker == null)
                             sticker = Discord.GetSticker(stickerItem.Id);
 
+                        // if they want to auto resolve
+                        if (Discord.AlwaysResolveStickers)
+                        {
+                            sticker = Task.Run(async () => await Discord.GetStickerAsync(stickerItem.Id).ConfigureAwait(false)).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
+                        }
+
                         // if its still null, create an unknown
                         if (sticker == null)
                             sticker = SocketUnknownSticker.Create(Discord, stickerItem);