Awaken Health Bar Fix

A tiny, focused patch for a client crash introduced in Epic Fight Awaken 1.2.7.2.

The problem

Epic Fight Awaken 1.2.7.2 changed EFAFaction.EFA_NO_ALIVE (the faction used by the Vacuum Slice airslash projectile entity) to build its health-bar texture with a null ResourceLocation. Epic Fight Awaken 1.2.6 shipped a real texture here — this is a regression, not intended behavior.

When Epic Fight tries to draw a health bar over that entity, the null texture reaches EpicFightRenderTypes.entityUITexture(ResourceLocation), which feeds it straight into ConcurrentHashMap.computeIfAbsent(null, ...). ConcurrentHashMap throws a NullPointerException on a null key, which crashes the game the instant that entity is rendered:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Rendering entity in world
    at java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.computeIfAbsent(...)
    at yesman.epicfight.client.renderer.EpicFightRenderTypes.entityUITexture(...)
    at yesman.epicfight.client.gui.EntityUI.drawUIAsLevelModel(...)
    at yesman.epicfight.client.gui.HealthBar.draw(...)

Practically, this means any player who triggers Vacuum Slice (or has one on-screen) crashes to desktop.

The fix

A single Mixin on EpicFightRenderTypes intercepts entityUITexture and substitutes a safe fallback texture (minecraft:textures/gui/icons.png) whenever the incoming ResourceLocation is null, before it ever reaches the ConcurrentHashMap:

• No more crash — the entity renders with a generic fallback icon instead of a broken health bar.
• The fix is generic: it guards the shared Epic Fight rendering path itself, so it also protects against any other mod or mob-patch that forgets to supply a health-bar texture, not just this one Awaken regression.
• Purely defensive — it changes nothing for any entity that already has a valid texture.

Compatibility

• Client-side only. Safe to leave on servers/dedicated packs; it simply does nothing there.
• Works alongside any version of Epic Fight Awaken. If a future Awaken release fixes the null texture upstream, this mod becomes a no-op — it never triggers unless it sees a null texture.
• No config, no commands, no other footprint.

Requirements

• Epic Fight (20.0+)
• Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge
• Epic Fight awaken

Installation

Drop the jar in your mods folder alongside Epic Fight and Epic Fight Awaken. That's it — no configuration needed.

Credits

Diagnosed from a live crash report (ConcurrentHashMap.computeIfAbsent NPE on epicfight_awaken:vacuum_slice) and fixed via Mixin.