diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a6fdd37..de5b032 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ## Unreleased
 
-- added better logging for cases where items are assigned to multiple unification tags
+- added logging for cases where items are assigned to multiple unification tags
+- added logging for cases where the recipe type can't be found
 - added Turkish translation ([#102](https://github.com/AlmostReliable/almostunified/pull/102))
 - fixed crash when runtime isn't loaded ([#101](https://github.com/AlmostReliable/almostunified/issues/101))
 - fixed newly created custom tags not being considered for unification
diff --git a/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeJsonImpl.java b/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeJsonImpl.java
index 5a40cae..6246fe0 100644
--- a/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeJsonImpl.java
+++ b/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeJsonImpl.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ public class RecipeJsonImpl implements RecipeJson {
         try {
             return ResourceLocation.parse(json.get("type").getAsString());
         } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException("could not detect recipe type");
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("could not detect recipe type for recipe " + id);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeLink.java b/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeLink.java
index 42fa990..857b8ec 100644
--- a/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeLink.java
+++ b/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeLink.java
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ public class RecipeLink implements RecipeData {
         try {
             this.type = ResourceLocation.parse(originalRecipe.get("type").getAsString());
         } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException("could not detect recipe type");
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("could not detect recipe type for recipe " + id);
         }
     }