diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3cd2df454..47ea5f647 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,41 +1,5 @@
-dist: xenial
-language: php
-
-php:
- - 7.3
- - 7.4
-
-before_script:
- - phpenv config-rm xdebug.ini
- - ./tests/build-leveldb.sh 10f59b56bec1db3ffe42ff265afe22182073e0e2
- - git clone https://github.com/reeze/php-leveldb.git leveldb
- - cd leveldb
- - git checkout 9bcae79f71b81a5c3ea6f67e45ae9ae9fb2775a5
- - phpize
- - ./configure --with-leveldb=../leveldb-mcpe && make && make install
- - cd ..
- - git clone https://github.com/pmmp/ext-chunkutils2.git chunkutils
- - cd chunkutils
- - git checkout d8d762a597ac0da6f333f862096d6af0e6286b75
- - phpize
- - ./configure && make && make install
- - cd ..
-# - pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/pthreads-3.1.6
- - echo | pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/yaml-2.1.0
- - pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/crypto-0.3.1
- - pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/ds-1.2.9
- - pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/igbinary-3.1.2
- - git clone https://github.com/pmmp/pthreads.git
- - cd pthreads
- - git checkout e0f514dfde01c5e7e9cf94c43615918af482a45c
- - phpize
- - ./configure
- - make
- - make install
- - cd ..
- - echo "extension=pthreads.so" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini
- - echo "extension=chunkutils2.so" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini
- - echo "extension=leveldb.so" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini
+import:
+ source: ./tests/travis/setup-php.yml
 
 script:
  - composer install --prefer-dist
@@ -45,7 +9,6 @@ script:
  - ./tests/travis.sh -t4
 
 cache:
-  - leveldb-mcpe
   - $HOME/.composer/cache/files
   - $HOME/.composer/cache/vcs
 
diff --git a/tests/travis/setup-php.yml b/tests/travis/setup-php.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e276d6f22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/travis/setup-php.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+dist: xenial
+language: php
+php:
+  - 7.3
+  - 7.4
+
+before_script:
+  - phpenv config-rm xdebug.ini
+  - |
+    set -e
+
+    LEVELDB_VERSION="10f59b56bec1db3ffe42ff265afe22182073e0e2"
+    if [ ! -f "./leveldb-mcpe/built_version" ] || [ $(cat "./leveldb-mcpe/built_version") != "$LEVELDB_VERSION" ]; then
+        echo "Building new LevelDB"
+        rm -rf "./leveldb-mcpe" || true
+        mkdir "./leveldb-mcpe"
+
+        curl -fsSL "https://github.com/pmmp/leveldb-mcpe/archive/$LEVELDB_VERSION.tar.gz" | tar -zx
+        mv "./leveldb-mcpe-$LEVELDB_VERSION" leveldb-mcpe-build
+        cd leveldb-mcpe-build
+        make -j4 sharedlibs
+
+        #put the artifacts in a separate dir, to avoid bloating travis cache"
+        mv out-shared/libleveldb.* ../leveldb-mcpe
+        mv include ../leveldb-mcpe
+        cd ../leveldb-mcpe
+        echo "$LEVELDB_VERSION" > "./built_version"
+        cd ..
+    else
+        echo "Using cached build for LevelDB version $LEVELDB_VERSION"
+    fi
+
+  - git clone https://github.com/reeze/php-leveldb.git leveldb
+  - cd leveldb
+  - git checkout 9bcae79f71b81a5c3ea6f67e45ae9ae9fb2775a5
+  - phpize
+  - ./configure --with-leveldb=../leveldb-mcpe && make && make install
+  - cd ..
+  - git clone https://github.com/pmmp/ext-chunkutils2.git chunkutils
+  - cd chunkutils
+  - git checkout d8d762a597ac0da6f333f862096d6af0e6286b75
+  - phpize
+  - ./configure && make && make install
+  - cd ..
+  # - pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/pthreads-3.1.6
+  - echo | pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/yaml-2.1.0
+  - pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/crypto-0.3.1
+  - pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/ds-1.2.9
+  - pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/igbinary-3.1.2
+  - git clone https://github.com/pmmp/pthreads.git
+  - cd pthreads
+  - git checkout e0f514dfde01c5e7e9cf94c43615918af482a45c
+  - phpize
+  - ./configure
+  - make
+  - make install
+  - cd ..
+  - echo "extension=pthreads.so" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini
+  - echo "extension=chunkutils2.so" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini
+  - echo "extension=leveldb.so" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini
+
+cache:
+  - leveldb-mcpe