diff --git a/common/src/main/java/dev/latvian/mods/kubejs/util/JsonIO.java b/common/src/main/java/dev/latvian/mods/kubejs/util/JsonIO.java
index 519079624..7bbf5ba62 100644
--- a/common/src/main/java/dev/latvian/mods/kubejs/util/JsonIO.java
+++ b/common/src/main/java/dev/latvian/mods/kubejs/util/JsonIO.java
@@ -21,10 +21,14 @@
 import java.io.DataOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Writer;
+import java.math.BigInteger;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.security.MessageDigest;
 import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.HexFormat;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Objects;
 
 public class JsonIO {
 	@HideFromJS
@@ -179,9 +183,18 @@ public static byte[] getJsonHashBytes(JsonElement json) {
 		} catch (IOException ex) {
 			ex.printStackTrace();
 			var h = json.hashCode();
-			return new byte[]{(byte) (h >> 24), (byte) (h >> 16), (byte) (h >> 8), (byte) (h >> 0)};
+			return new byte[]{(byte) (h >> 24), (byte) (h >> 16), (byte) (h >> 8), (byte) h};
 		}
 
 		return baos.toByteArray();
 	}
+
+	public static String getJsonHashString(JsonElement json) {
+		try {
+			var messageDigest = Objects.requireNonNull(MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5"));
+			return new BigInteger(HexFormat.of().formatHex(messageDigest.digest(JsonIO.getJsonHashBytes(json))), 16).toString(36);
+		} catch (Exception ex) {
+			return "%08x".formatted(json.hashCode());
+		}
+	}
 }
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diff --git a/common/src/main/java/dev/latvian/mods/kubejs/util/UtilsJS.java b/common/src/main/java/dev/latvian/mods/kubejs/util/UtilsJS.java
index d4ed75183..09857eebc 100644
--- a/common/src/main/java/dev/latvian/mods/kubejs/util/UtilsJS.java
+++ b/common/src/main/java/dev/latvian/mods/kubejs/util/UtilsJS.java
@@ -74,9 +74,7 @@
 import java.lang.reflect.Type;
 import java.lang.reflect.TypeVariable;
 import java.lang.reflect.WildcardType;
-import java.math.BigInteger;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
-import java.security.MessageDigest;
 import java.time.Duration;
 import java.time.temporal.TemporalAmount;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -85,10 +83,8 @@
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
-import java.util.HexFormat;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Objects;
 import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.Random;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ -836,13 +832,7 @@ public static <T> String getUniqueId(T input, Codec<T> codec) {
 	}
 
 	private static <T> String getUniqueId(T input, Function<T, JsonElement> toJson) {
-		try {
-			var messageDigest = Objects.requireNonNull(MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5"));
-			var json = toJson.apply(input);
-			return new BigInteger(HexFormat.of().formatHex(messageDigest.digest(JsonIO.getJsonHashBytes(json))), 16).toString(36);
-		} catch (Exception ex) {
-			throw new RuntimeException("MD5 not supported", ex);
-		}
+		return JsonIO.getJsonHashString(toJson.apply(input));
 	}
 
 	public static String stripEventName(String s) {