
Goety Owned Null Guard Fix
A tiny (~3KB) Forge 1.20.1 patch that fixes a recurring crash from Goety summons.
The Problem
When Goety summons such as Inferno or ZombieServant take damage, the game can crash with a "Ticking entity" NullPointerException. It happens most often in the Nether, with multiple same-type summons nearby, or with ownerless summons. The crash stack always points at Owned.java:186 -> Entity.java:2236.
Root Cause
Goety's Owned.isAlliedTo(Entity) forwards a null entity to vanilla Entity.isAlliedTo. The hurt-revenge target AI passes a cleared lastHurtByMob() value while propagating damage to nearby same-type mobs, and vanilla 1.20.1 dereferences the argument without a null check (p.getTeam()) -> NPE.
The Fix
A mixin injects a null guard at the entry of Owned.isAlliedTo: it returns false for a null argument (a null entity can never be an ally). No gameplay balance and no AI behaviour changes - it is a pure null-safety fix.
Compatibility
- Requires Forge 1.20.1 (47.x) and Goety 2.5.56+.
- Works alongside RevelationFix, Goety: Revelation and all Goety addons.
- Install on both the client and the server. For an integrated server, the host must have the mod installed.
- Contains only a mixin; no Goety code is included. MIT licensed. Remove the jar to uninstall.
Thanks to Polarice3 for Goety (https://github.com/Polarice3/Goety-2).
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as goetyownedfix-1.1.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 20 KB
- Download link checked 8 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.