diff --git a/Spigot-Server-Patches/Asynchronous-chunk-IO-and-loading.patch b/Spigot-Server-Patches/Asynchronous-chunk-IO-and-loading.patch
index ee585f9fd8..e3d893ac9b 100644
--- a/Spigot-Server-Patches/Asynchronous-chunk-IO-and-loading.patch
+++ b/Spigot-Server-Patches/Asynchronous-chunk-IO-and-loading.patch
@@ -1902,7 +1902,7 @@ index 0000000000..1dfa8abfd8
 +}
 diff --git a/src/main/java/com/destroystokyo/paper/io/chunk/ChunkTaskManager.java b/src/main/java/com/destroystokyo/paper/io/chunk/ChunkTaskManager.java
 new file mode 100644
-index 0000000000..e8282e9781
+index 0000000000..ff19d38f82
 --- /dev/null
 +++ b/src/main/java/com/destroystokyo/paper/io/chunk/ChunkTaskManager.java
 @@ -0,0 +0,0 @@
@@ -2344,7 +2344,7 @@ index 0000000000..e8282e9781
 +
 +    private void raiseTaskPriority(ChunkTask task, int priority) {
 +        final boolean raised = task.raisePriority(priority);
-+        if (task.isScheduled() && raised) {
++        if (task.isScheduled() && raised && this.workers != null) {
 +            // only notify if we're in queue to be executed
 +            if (priority == PrioritizedTaskQueue.HIGHEST_PRIORITY) {
 +                // was in another queue but became urgent later, add to urgent queue and the previous