diff --git a/bootstrap/spigot/src/main/java/org/geysermc/platform/spigot/GeyserSpigotInjector.java b/bootstrap/spigot/src/main/java/org/geysermc/platform/spigot/GeyserSpigotInjector.java
index 14065c52e..5b6e259f5 100644
--- a/bootstrap/spigot/src/main/java/org/geysermc/platform/spigot/GeyserSpigotInjector.java
+++ b/bootstrap/spigot/src/main/java/org/geysermc/platform/spigot/GeyserSpigotInjector.java
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ public class GeyserSpigotInjector extends GeyserInjector {
                         initChannel.invoke(childHandler, ch);
                     }
                 })
-                .group(new DefaultEventLoopGroup(0, new DefaultThreadFactory("Geyser Spigot connection thread")))
+                // Set to MAX_PRIORITY as MultithreadEventLoopGroup#newDefaultThreadFactory which DefaultEventLoopGroup implements does by default
+                .group(new DefaultEventLoopGroup(0, new DefaultThreadFactory("Geyser Spigot connection thread", Thread.MAX_PRIORITY)))
                 .localAddress(LocalAddress.ANY))
                 .bind()
                 .syncUninterruptibly();
diff --git a/connector/pom.xml b/connector/pom.xml
index 6b955ca21..81c9acdf8 100644
--- a/connector/pom.xml
+++ b/connector/pom.xml
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.github.CloudburstMC.Protocol</groupId>
             <artifactId>bedrock-v448</artifactId>
-            <version>6ce2f6e</version>
+            <version>6b48673</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.github.GeyserMC</groupId>
             <artifactId>PacketLib</artifactId>
-            <version>86c9c38</version>
+            <version>9d4b476</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>
diff --git a/connector/src/main/java/org/geysermc/connector/network/session/GeyserSession.java b/connector/src/main/java/org/geysermc/connector/network/session/GeyserSession.java
index 7d500ef20..bfa9af7cf 100644
--- a/connector/src/main/java/org/geysermc/connector/network/session/GeyserSession.java
+++ b/connector/src/main/java/org/geysermc/connector/network/session/GeyserSession.java
@@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ public class GeyserSession implements CommandSender {
                 // This issue could be mitigated down the line by preventing Bungee from setting compression
                 downstream.setFlag(BuiltinFlags.USE_ONLY_DIRECT_BUFFERS, connector.getPlatformType() == PlatformType.BUNGEECORD);
 
-                downstream.connectInternal(connector.getBootstrap().getSocketAddress(), upstream.getAddress().getAddress().getHostAddress(), true);
+                downstream.connectInternal(connector.getBootstrap().getSocketAddress(), upstream.getAddress().getAddress().getHostAddress());
                 internalConnect = true;
             } catch (Exception e) {
                 e.printStackTrace();
@@ -1237,8 +1237,11 @@ public class GeyserSession implements CommandSender {
         if (!closed && this.downstream != null) {
             Channel channel = this.downstream.getChannel();
             if (channel == null) {
-                // Channel is set to null when downstream is disconnected - there is a short window for this to happen
-                // as downstream doesn't call GeyserSession#disconnect
+                // Channel is only null before the connection has initialized
+                connector.getLogger().warning("Tried to send a packet to the Java server too early!");
+                if (connector.getConfig().isDebugMode()) {
+                    Thread.dumpStack();
+                }
                 return;
             }