Better NPC Highlight causes NullPointerException during menu entry events

[SoggyBurritoVR]

While using the Better NPC Highlight plugin, I occasionally see the following warning in the RuneLite log:

2026-02-10 00:22:00 EST [Client] WARN  n.runelite.client.eventbus.EventBus - Uncaught exception in event subscriber
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
	at net.runelite.client.game.NpcUtil.isDying(NpcUtil.java:67)
	at com.betternpchighlight.managers.MenuManager.craftMenu(MenuManager.java:71)
	at com.betternpchighlight.BetterNpcHighlightPlugin.onMenuEntryAdded(BetterNpcHighlightPlugin.java:196)
	at net.runelite.client.eventbus.EventBus$Subscriber.invoke(EventBus.java:70)
	at net.runelite.client.eventbus.EventBus.post(EventBus.java:223)
	at net.runelite.client.callback.Hooks.post(Hooks.java:217)
	at xs.yr(xs.java:51846)
	at xs.av(xs.java:225)
	at ba.lx(ba.java:7840)
	at tt.lk(tt.java:43497)
	at ci.lb(ci.java:8049)
	at lf.mi(lf.java:9747)
	at lf.mi(lf.java:10147)
	at dh.mq(dh.java:9601)
	at client.pa(client.java:12969)
	at client.bc(client.java:11656)
	at bv.bm(bv.java:441)
	at bv.ky(bv.java)
	at bv.run(bv.java:8738)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

client.log
launcher.log

[SamuelDev]

Thanks I'll take a look.

[SamuelDev]

Two questions:

• Can you post a screenshot of the miscellaneous section of your plugin config
• Were you killing a certain NPC when you were seeing this exception?

[SoggyBurritoVR]

I was speaking to the NPCs for "The Jubbly Jive" Barracuda Trial, while not being on helm.

The npcs were: Gurtob & Ros

[SamuelDev]

There is some nuance with npcs on boats. I have a fix to prevent log spam, but unless I make further changes you wont be able to tag things on boats. Will try to get it working a bit longer but if I cant I will push the fix for the log spam.

[SamuelDev]

runelite/plugin-hub#10556

Once the reviewers merge this the problem should be resolved. Will also allow you to tag NPCs on boats if that is something you wanted to do but couldnt before.

[SoggyBurritoVR]

runelite/plugin-hub#10556

Once the reviewers merge this the problem should be resolved. Will also allow you to tag NPCs on boats if that is something you wanted to do but couldnt before.

I'm sure it will come up. Thank you for your quick response and resolution of the issue.