diff --git a/apps/components_tests/lua/testlua.cpp b/apps/components_tests/lua/testlua.cpp
index 5f1e11c435..940fa9b9c5 100644
--- a/apps/components_tests/lua/testlua.cpp
+++ b/apps/components_tests/lua/testlua.cpp
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ return {
     TEST_F(LuaStateTest, SafeIndexMetamethod)
     {
         const VFS::Path::Normalized path("metaIndexError.lua");
-        sol::table t = mLua.runInNewSandbox(path);
+        sol::lua_table t = mLua.runInNewSandbox(path);
         // without safe get we crash here
         EXPECT_ERROR(LuaUtil::safeGet(t, "any key"), "meta index error");
     }
diff --git a/components/lua/luastate.hpp b/components/lua/luastate.hpp
index 1a432ec749..4ec8a10320 100644
--- a/components/lua/luastate.hpp
+++ b/components/lua/luastate.hpp
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ namespace LuaUtil
     // work around for a (likely) sol3 bug
     // when the index meta method throws, simply calling table.get crashes instead of re-throwing the error
     template <class Key>
-    sol::object safeGet(const sol::table& table, const Key& key)
+    sol::object safeGet(const sol::lua_table& table, const Key& key)
     {
         auto index = table.traverse_raw_get<sol::optional<sol::main_protected_function>>(
             sol::metatable_key, sol::meta_function::index);
@@ -306,9 +306,9 @@ namespace LuaUtil
     template <class... Str>
     sol::object getFieldOrNil(const sol::object& table, std::string_view first, const Str&... str)
     {
-        if (!table.is<sol::table>())
+        if (!table.is<sol::lua_table>())
             return sol::nil;
-        sol::object value = safeGet(table.as<sol::table>(), first);
+        sol::object value = safeGet(table.as<sol::lua_table>(), first);
         if constexpr (sizeof...(str) == 0)
             return value;
         else