diff --git a/roomserver/storage/postgres/deltas/2021041615092700_state_blocks_refactor.go b/roomserver/storage/postgres/deltas/2021041615092700_state_blocks_refactor.go
index d87ae052b5..26d88e00fb 100644
--- a/roomserver/storage/postgres/deltas/2021041615092700_state_blocks_refactor.go
+++ b/roomserver/storage/postgres/deltas/2021041615092700_state_blocks_refactor.go
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ func UpStateBlocksRefactor(tx *sql.Tx) error {
 					_roomserver_state_block.event_nid
 				FROM
 					_roomserver_state_snapshots
-					JOIN _roomserver_state_block ON _roomserver_state_block.state_block_nid = ANY (_roomserver_state_snapshots.state_block_nids)
+					LEFT JOIN _roomserver_state_block ON _roomserver_state_block.state_block_nid = ANY (_roomserver_state_snapshots.state_block_nids)
 				WHERE
 					_roomserver_state_snapshots.state_snapshot_nid = ANY (
 						SELECT
@@ -140,22 +140,49 @@ func UpStateBlocksRefactor(tx *sql.Tx) error {
 		logrus.Warnf("Rewriting snapshots %d-%d of %d...", batchoffset, batchoffset+batchsize, snapshotcount)
 		var snapshots []stateBlockData
 
+		var badCreateSnapshots []stateBlockData
 		for snapshotrows.Next() {
 			var snapshot stateBlockData
-			var eventsarray pq.Int64Array
-			if err = snapshotrows.Scan(&snapshot.StateSnapshotNID, &snapshot.RoomNID, &snapshot.StateBlockNID, &eventsarray); err != nil {
+			var eventsarray []sql.NullInt64
+			var nulStateBlockNID sql.NullInt64
+			if err = snapshotrows.Scan(&snapshot.StateSnapshotNID, &snapshot.RoomNID, &nulStateBlockNID, pq.Array(&eventsarray)); err != nil {
 				return fmt.Errorf("rows.Scan: %w", err)
 			}
+			if nulStateBlockNID.Valid {
+				snapshot.StateBlockNID = types.StateBlockNID(nulStateBlockNID.Int64)
+			}
+			// Dendrite v0.1.0 would not make a state block for the create event, resulting in [NULL] from the query above.
+			// Remember the snapshot and we'll fill it in after we close this cursor as we can't have 2 queries running at the same time
+			if len(eventsarray) == 1 && !eventsarray[0].Valid {
+				badCreateSnapshots = append(badCreateSnapshots, snapshot)
+				continue
+			}
 			for _, e := range eventsarray {
-				snapshot.EventNIDs = append(snapshot.EventNIDs, types.EventNID(e))
+				if e.Valid {
+					snapshot.EventNIDs = append(snapshot.EventNIDs, types.EventNID(e.Int64))
+				}
 			}
 			snapshot.EventNIDs = snapshot.EventNIDs[:util.SortAndUnique(snapshot.EventNIDs)]
 			snapshots = append(snapshots, snapshot)
 		}
-
 		if err = snapshotrows.Close(); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("snapshots.Close: %w", err)
 		}
+		// fill in bad create snapshots
+		for _, s := range badCreateSnapshots {
+			var createEventNID types.EventNID
+			err = tx.QueryRow(
+				`SELECT event_nid FROM roomserver_events WHERE state_snapshot_nid = $1 AND event_type_nid = 1`, s.StateSnapshotNID,
+			).Scan(&createEventNID)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("cannot xref null state block with snapshot %d: %s", s.StateSnapshotNID, err)
+			}
+			if createEventNID == 0 {
+				return fmt.Errorf("cannot xref null state block with snapshot %d, no create event", s.StateSnapshotNID)
+			}
+			s.EventNIDs = append(s.EventNIDs, createEventNID)
+			snapshots = append(snapshots, s)
+		}
 
 		newsnapshots := map[stateSnapshotData]types.StateBlockNIDs{}