diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index ffc927100..886b5200b 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,18 +1,33 @@
 FROM rust:1-alpine3.20 AS builder
 ENV RUSTFLAGS="-C target-feature=-crt-static -C target-cpu=native"
 RUN apk add --no-cache musl-dev
+
 WORKDIR /pumpkin
 COPY . /pumpkin
+
+# build release
 RUN --mount=type=cache,sharing=private,target=/pumpkin/target \
     --mount=type=cache,target=/usr/local/cargo/git/db \
     --mount=type=cache,target=/usr/local/cargo/registry/ \
     cargo build --release && cp target/release/pumpkin ./pumpkin.release
+
+# strip debug symbols from binary
 RUN strip pumpkin.release
 
 FROM alpine:3.20
-WORKDIR /pumpkin
+
+# Identifying information for registries like ghcr.io
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source=https://github.com/Snowiiii/Pumpkin
+
 RUN apk add --no-cache libgcc
-COPY --from=builder /pumpkin/pumpkin.release /pumpkin/pumpkin
+
+COPY --from=builder /pumpkin/pumpkin.release /bin/pumpkin
+
+# set workdir to /pumpkin, this is required to influence the PWD environment variable
+# it allows for bind mounting the server files without overwriting the pumpkin
+# executable (without requiring an `docker cp`-ing the binary to the host folder)
+WORKDIR /pumpkin
+
 ENV RUST_BACKTRACE=1
 EXPOSE 25565
-ENTRYPOINT ["/pumpkin/pumpkin"]
+ENTRYPOINT [ "/bin/pumpkin" ]
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index e559259ba..a8c019a08 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ services:
     ports:
       - 25565:25565
     volumes:
-      - ./configuration.toml:/pumpkin/configuration.toml
-      - ./features.toml:/pumpkin/features.toml
+      - ./data:/pumpkin