Network Packet INSTANCE returns null

[eeyorenailbag]

so I've been following this tutorial to get a projectile to shoot at a keypress, and in the video it works fine, however I run into the issue where it says that INSTANCE returns null. I even copy/pasted over the code to make sure I hadn't made a mistake, and yet the issue still persist, within the lines:

 

public static <MSG> void sendToServer(MSG message) {

INSTANCE.sendToServer(message); }

and subsequently 

ModMessages.sendToServer(new MagicC2SPacket());

 

My code is the exact same as the tutorial video, so I'm unsure as to why the game crashes and returns a null value. Is there a new way as of 1.19.2?

 

Edited August 18, 2022 by eeyorenailbag

[warjort]

I'm fairly sure no version of forge (or java) has supported uninitialsed data. 🙂 

Since you like videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nullpointerexception+in+java