From 44706ae343efdd8d06bcca584c4cabfa2a20527d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: LexManos <LexManos@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:17:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Added stupididty exception for common issue with
 getMinecraftLogger.

---
 common/cpw/mods/fml/common/FMLCommonHandler.java | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/common/cpw/mods/fml/common/FMLCommonHandler.java b/common/cpw/mods/fml/common/FMLCommonHandler.java
index f0def1d3bf..57308754ad 100644
--- a/common/cpw/mods/fml/common/FMLCommonHandler.java
+++ b/common/cpw/mods/fml/common/FMLCommonHandler.java
@@ -280,6 +280,11 @@ public class FMLCommonHandler
      */
     public Logger getMinecraftLogger()
     {
+        if (sidedDelegate == null)
+        {
+            throw new RuntimeException("sidedDelegate null when attempting to getMinecraftLogger, this is generally caused by you not installing FML properly, " +
+            "or installing some other mod that edits Minecraft.class on top of FML such as ModLoader, do not do this. Reinstall FML properly and try again.");
+        }
         return sidedDelegate.getMinecraftLogger();
     }