Summary/Description: Noticed a heavy RAM/Memory load recently and spent legit 8 hours investigating it. was running out of memory (18+GB being used) on my mod pack last few days and that was raising from a reasonable amount during map gen. IF I made it the actual map, it stayed rocking 70%+ memory usage.

Did alot of tweaking, noticed when I removed Vanilla Vehicles Expanded + Vehicle Frame work...The issue went away. No more "Memory leak". Tried it in and out multiple times. Contacted SmashPhil on the Dubs discord and talked a bit. Determined when VVE+VF + requirements are ALONE no real issues occurred. Came to the conclusion VFE + something else is causing a "memory leak" like event or something.

HOURS of adding mods slow was going nowhere as I Loged the starting memory (just before map gen) to peak at map/pawn load. Everything was in normal range. Decided to test groups next. When I added ALL my Vanilla expanded mods in + VVE/VF. The Memory leak came back. So started removing those one by one, or logical group by group (animals, weapons, races etc) Eventually Removed Vanilla Expanded Skills and the "leak" went away.

TLDR above, I found a odd issue causing a issue similar to a memory leak with Vanilla Expanded Skills when combined with VVE+VF. No idea why but hopefully the suite of logs below will help?
Total Mem usage from Rimworld ON AVERAGE went from 28% (2.6gb) just before map gen to 68% (15gb) after map loaded (not world, map/pawns).
When I removed only Skills it went from 28% (2.5gb) to 31% (4.0gb)
When I removed only VVE, it went from 27% (2.45gb) to 27% (2.52gb)

Only when skills and VVE are combined does the 10+GB memory consuption occur.

Recreate: Install Vanilla Vehicles Expanded + Framework and Vanilla Skills Expanded + Framework. Start game and note memory usage (Task Manager or other tool) before and after Map gen. High usage should be noted. Remove 1 of the mods and note it will decrease exponentially. Used same storyteller world seed and map for each test. (available on request)

Logs:

All Vanilla mods + reqs + VVE + V.Skills Expanded. (max memory usage)
https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/b2ad37e3dd7d187dd7a807ec8f74291d

All Vanilla mods + reqs + V.Skills with out VVE. (same memory usage pre and post map gen)
https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/5037d2fe1b48d42278bdf2dbc0ebebae

All Vanilla mods + reqs + VVE with out V. Skills (slightly higher mem but much closer pre to post)
https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/c351240aea851da44d7ec1ab59fd9c11

Minimum mods (V. Skills + V V E) and reqs. (23% 1.2gb to 63% 13gb)
https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/f7c63f77c9fc4aaebed378c34a02164a

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