diff --git a/federationsender/consumers/roomserver.go b/federationsender/consumers/roomserver.go
index adca255f7..ff5230161 100644
--- a/federationsender/consumers/roomserver.go
+++ b/federationsender/consumers/roomserver.go
@@ -131,9 +131,7 @@ func (s *OutputRoomEventConsumer) onMessage(msg *sarama.ConsumerMessage) error {
 // processMessage updates the list of currently joined hosts in the room
 // and then sends the event to the hosts that were joined before the event.
 func (s *OutputRoomEventConsumer) processMessage(ore api.OutputNewRoomEvent) error {
-	addStateEvents := []gomatrixserverlib.HeaderedEvent{ore.Event}
-	addStateEvents = append(addStateEvents, ore.AddStateEvents...)
-	addsJoinedHosts, err := joinedHostsFromEvents(gomatrixserverlib.UnwrapEventHeaders(addStateEvents))
+	addsJoinedHosts, err := joinedHostsFromEvents(gomatrixserverlib.UnwrapEventHeaders(ore.AddStateEvents))
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}