diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 78133afc9..9f68b9955 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ before_script:
 
 # start the actual build
 script:
-  - mvn -s .travis-maven-settings.xml -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true clean package -Ptest -B -V || travis_terminate 0
+  - mvn -s .travis-maven-settings.xml -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true clean package -Ptest -B -V || travis_terminate 1
   - java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -jar target/steve.jar &
   - sleep 30
   - 'grep -C 50 -e "Exception: " ~/logs/steve.log && exit 255 || true'