diff --git a/common/src/main/java/org/embeddedt/modernfix/common/mixin/bugfix/buffer_builder_leak/BufferBuilderMixin.java b/common/src/main/java/org/embeddedt/modernfix/common/mixin/bugfix/buffer_builder_leak/BufferBuilderMixin.java
index 7249216d..98237da3 100644
--- a/common/src/main/java/org/embeddedt/modernfix/common/mixin/bugfix/buffer_builder_leak/BufferBuilderMixin.java
+++ b/common/src/main/java/org/embeddedt/modernfix/common/mixin/bugfix/buffer_builder_leak/BufferBuilderMixin.java
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ import org.embeddedt.modernfix.ModernFix;
 import org.embeddedt.modernfix.render.UnsafeBufferHelper;
 import org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.Mixin;
 import org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.Shadow;
+import org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.injection.At;
+import org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.injection.Inject;
+import org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.injection.callback.CallbackInfo;
 
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
@@ -14,6 +17,14 @@ public class BufferBuilderMixin {
 
     private static boolean leakReported = false;
 
+    /**
+     * Ensure UnsafeBufferHelper is classloaded early, to avoid Forge's event transformer showing an error in the log.
+     */
+    @Inject(method = "<clinit>", at = @At(value = "RETURN"))
+    private static void initUnsafeBufferHelper(CallbackInfo ci) {
+        UnsafeBufferHelper.init();
+    }
+
     @Override
     protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
         try {
diff --git a/common/src/main/java/org/embeddedt/modernfix/render/UnsafeBufferHelper.java b/common/src/main/java/org/embeddedt/modernfix/render/UnsafeBufferHelper.java
index acfeee83..69ab0cfe 100644
--- a/common/src/main/java/org/embeddedt/modernfix/render/UnsafeBufferHelper.java
+++ b/common/src/main/java/org/embeddedt/modernfix/render/UnsafeBufferHelper.java
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ public class UnsafeBufferHelper {
         }
     }
 
+    public static void init() {
+
+    }
+
     public static void free(ByteBuffer buf) {
         if(UNSAFE != null && ADDRESS >= 0) {
             // set the address to 0 to prevent double free