Crash on loading units

[Mr. Pink]

I have a 15-year-old fort that suddenly won't load, it crashes when it says loading units in the loading bar.

However I did a lot of manual saves and found an older one that loads, but if i play more than 10m on the old save, and save again the new saves won't load either.


Anyone had the same issue and or fixed it let me know :)

[Highspade]

I seen several people with that complaint. I'm not sure how often it happens, but I think that it's related to forgotten beasts somehow.

[Dervish]

Yeah same thing just started happening with my 13 year old fort :(

[Helios]

Originally posted by Mr. Pink:

I have a 15-year-old fort that suddenly won't load, it crashes when it says loading units in the loading bar.

However I did a lot of manual saves and found an older one that loads, but if i play more than 10m on the old save, and save again the new saves won't load either.


Anyone had the same issue and or fixed it let me know :)

only solution is to turn off megabeast attacks so forgotten beast dont spawn anymore but i could be there is already one spawned but you did not see it yet because of dark areas in caverns. Other solution you need to create a new world because the problem would stil apear because of the old data.

[malthenielsen]

IDK what causes it, but I saw several people having the same issue.

[Dervish]

I think I read somewhere its something to do with butchering forgotten beasts - and I think it checks out because I had a bunch of these forgotten beasts in to my caverns which I mainly just ignored because they couldn't get in my fort and I was busy elsewhere (and it was great for clearing out the cavern for me)

Multiple come and go over the years, they fight each other and the strongest wins with the corpses left to rot - no issues with save

Then after I finally get around to dealing them - killed two pretty much at the same time (one in upper caverns and then one came in a lower cavern - lower cavern wasn't secured so had to deal with that one - but by my own sheer ineptitude building a well - I also managed to unseal the first cavern at literally the same time - so I had to split my forces and fight them both )

I got the buggers with minimal casualties but then my guys would have grabbed the corpses and butchered them -now all the saves in that world are borked

[Skurkanas]

Ive been butchering forgotten beasts just fine for the first few years. Might be a specific part of only some of them

[Skurkanas]

REALLY hoping for a fix, this has killed a 120+hr fort of mine. But judging from google results it looks like some bugs are still around from way back in 2010...

[McFuzz]

Hello darkness my old friend....
I had this :(
This is something to do with Forgotten beasts and cave invaders. Most people with the problem had any combination of them. I hope it's the dev's highest priority right now, as it's a total world wipe.

[JAB-exe]

same issue here 17 yr fort 80 hours :(

[creepy-streaker]

heyo so ive had this happen a couple times and the last time it happened i started doing what someone in a different thread suggested which is pausing the game i.e. with spacebar or whatevver, go to a completely hidden layer that youve never been to before, then save to timeline and go to desktop. Im only a few hard saves and a couple years in but it hasnt happened again since then,

[RiggedQuarter]

Known issue. Lots of us waiting on patch.

[Jelly Sandwich]

I have just two years old fort and now I am getting constant crashes...

[IAO]

Same problem here with my 7 years fortress :( 60hr for nothing i miss my 200 dwarfs