diff --git a/docs/src/progress/renderertodo.md b/docs/src/progress/renderertodo.md
index ba9d3981..37574ca1 100644
--- a/docs/src/progress/renderertodo.md
+++ b/docs/src/progress/renderertodo.md
@@ -677,6 +677,7 @@ Better jenkins documentation
 Include jenkins dockerfile in repo
 Better model for gameobjects
 Server synchronization of sprint tree
+Fix potential bad path for item state lookup
 
 
 # TODO
diff --git a/src/main/java/electrosphere/entity/types/item/ItemUtils.java b/src/main/java/electrosphere/entity/types/item/ItemUtils.java
index 5f351709..711f3ddb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/electrosphere/entity/types/item/ItemUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/electrosphere/entity/types/item/ItemUtils.java
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ public class ItemUtils {
      * @return true if the item IS in an inventory container, otherwise false
      */
     public static boolean itemIsInInventory(Entity item){
-        return (boolean)item.getData(EntityDataStrings.ITEM_IS_IN_INVENTORY);
+        return item.containsKey(EntityDataStrings.ITEM_IS_IN_INVENTORY);
     }
 
     /**