diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0b40b75790..03ed3ae699 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -13,13 +13,14 @@ default:
 	@echo "  make test - run evennia test suite with all default values."
 	@echo "  make tests=evennia.path test - run only specific test or tests."
 	@echo "  make testp - run test suite using multiple cores."
+	@echo "  make publish - publish evennia to pypi (requires pypi credentials)
 
 install:
 	pip install -e .
 
 installextra:
 	pip install -e .
-	pip install -r requirements_extra.txt
+	pip install -e .[extra]
 
 # black is configured from pyproject.toml
 format:
@@ -42,3 +43,11 @@ testp:
 	cd $(TEST_GAME_DIR);\
 	evennia migrate;\
 	evennia test --keepdb --parallel 4 $(TESTS);\
+
+publish:
+	rm -Rf dist/
+	git clean -xdf	
+	pip install --upgrade pip 
+	pip install build twine 
+	python -m build --sdist --wheel --outdir dist/ . 
+	python -m twine upload dist/*