I have a character with high social skill, whose gear I change before trading. This time I forgot to switch the gear back and the game could not generate my character when entering a quest area or returning home. In the quest area, the game told me it could not generate the map and when returning home my character was deleted completely. I checked the error logs and saw Awesome Inventory throwing an exception. The colonist had both main loadout and costumes created for him. After thorough experimentation, I found that if switched back the gear my character had before forming a caravan the problem with loading him disappeared.