diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index de5b032..06db0aa 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 - 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 skipping logic for recipes with invalid recipe types
 - 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/RecipeLink.java b/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeLink.java
index 857b8ec..823e418 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
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package com.almostreliable.unified.unification.recipe;
 
 import net.minecraft.resources.ResourceLocation;
 
+import com.almostreliable.unified.AlmostUnifiedCommon;
 import com.almostreliable.unified.api.unification.recipe.RecipeData;
 import com.almostreliable.unified.utils.JsonCompare;
 
@@ -15,19 +16,35 @@ import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
-public class RecipeLink implements RecipeData {
+public final class RecipeLink implements RecipeData {
+
     private final ResourceLocation id;
     private final ResourceLocation type;
     private final JsonObject originalRecipe;
     @Nullable private DuplicateLink duplicateLink;
     @Nullable private JsonObject unifiedRecipe;
 
-    public RecipeLink(ResourceLocation id, JsonObject originalRecipe) {
+    private RecipeLink(ResourceLocation id, JsonObject originalRecipe, ResourceLocation type) {
         this.id = id;
         this.originalRecipe = originalRecipe;
+        this.type = type;
+    }
 
+    @Nullable
+    public static RecipeLink of(ResourceLocation id, JsonObject originalRecipe) {
+        ResourceLocation type = ResourceLocation.tryParse(originalRecipe.get("type").getAsString());
+        if (type == null) {
+            AlmostUnifiedCommon.LOGGER.warn("Could not detect recipe type for recipe '{}', skipping.", id);
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        return new RecipeLink(id, originalRecipe, type);
+    }
+
+    public static RecipeLink ofOrThrow(ResourceLocation id, JsonObject originalRecipe) {
         try {
-            this.type = ResourceLocation.parse(originalRecipe.get("type").getAsString());
+            ResourceLocation type = ResourceLocation.parse(originalRecipe.get("type").getAsString());
+            return new RecipeLink(id, originalRecipe, type);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("could not detect recipe type for recipe " + id);
         }
diff --git a/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeTransformer.java b/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeTransformer.java
index 3b9b4af..a1f58e2 100644
--- a/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeTransformer.java
+++ b/Common/src/main/java/com/almostreliable/unified/unification/recipe/RecipeTransformer.java
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Objects;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.function.Consumer;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
@@ -111,7 +112,8 @@ public class RecipeTransformer {
         return recipes
             .entrySet()
             .stream()
-            .map(entry -> new RecipeLink(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue().getAsJsonObject()))
+            .map(entry -> RecipeLink.of(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue().getAsJsonObject()))
+            .filter(Objects::nonNull)
             .sorted(Comparator.comparing(entry -> entry.getId().toString()))
             .collect(Collectors.groupingByConcurrent(RecipeLink::getType));
     }
diff --git a/Common/src/test/java/testmod/TestUtils.java b/Common/src/test/java/testmod/TestUtils.java
index e5b5728..c68f7fc 100644
--- a/Common/src/test/java/testmod/TestUtils.java
+++ b/Common/src/test/java/testmod/TestUtils.java
@@ -83,11 +83,11 @@ public class TestUtils {
 
     public static RecipeLink recipe(String jsonStr) {
         var json = json(jsonStr);
-        return new RecipeLink(ResourceLocation.parse("test"), json);
+        return RecipeLink.ofOrThrow(ResourceLocation.parse("test"), json);
     }
 
     public static RecipeLink recipe(JsonObject json) {
-        return new RecipeLink(ResourceLocation.parse("test"), json);
+        return RecipeLink.ofOrThrow(ResourceLocation.parse("test"), json);
     }
 
     public static JsonObject json(String json) {