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Followed the link in the game settings (I finally learned how to read your comment) and have found the backup "ModsConfig.xml" in the config folder (C:\Users\user\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\Config) and deleted it. Cannot find a "modconfig.xml" anywhere else.

Any ideas?

Hi Canute. May have found the issue; no modconfig.xml is present in my version of the files (as far as I can find). Am I looking in the right place? (E:\Steam launch\steamapps\common\RimWorld) (or any of its subfolders).
I do not have any mod managers installed so that shouldn't be the issue, unless a workshop mod can auto install a dependency mod manager which I don't believe they can.

Tried re-validating the game files on steam to see if that would generate a modconfig.xml however it doesnt seem to have and no changes can be found to the behaviour of the game.

If anyone knows how to fix the issue where I can't open my mods menu that would be incredibly helpful as I would then more easily  be able to identify which mods could potentially be out of date or causing the issue.

No changes after removing vanilla expanded mods, gastronomy and its new till dependency and psychology. Since I don't have dubs hygiene and my psychology idea fell through, I don't really know what to try next.

Any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Not sure that is the issue for me, as I don't have dubs hygiene. Psychology is a likely candidate for me as it changes the way pawns work but (assumedly) not pets. Not much to go on but its something. I have been told that the vanilla expanded mods dont seem to work on 1.3 yet (not sure about the validity of this) so im first trying without those and some other minor mods. Will update on the results

I believe I am having the same issue. Game worked fine last night and after the small update today I cannot interact with any colonists, and they cannot move, except for my pet persian cat (woo.). I cannot access the mods window on the main menu. I can open the orders tab in-game (but none of its sub menus), but I cannot open any others. I also cannot open the escape menu. The menu's leading up to the "create world" screen seem to be fully functional, however the "create world" menu only has its title, seed title and box, randomise seed button and prepare landing's precise world generation %.

This has rendered the game totally unplayable, and in very strange ways may I add, all since playing the exact same save the night before.

Please let me know if this should be its own report, however as it seems to be the same issue (marked in my opinion by the fact our pawns cannot move, but my bloody cat can) I thought it best to first put it here.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for the swift reply, and sorry for putting it in the wrong section.

SovietWomble is an incredibly hard person to contact, by design, but i will try my best to get the message to him.

Hello all.
I have been following SovietWomble's save games of Rimworld for a while now, and he has just had a second save game corrupt.
While his first game corrupted due to a mod issue, this time it isn't so simple. This time its the game.

Upon attempting to load the world he received the normal "An error occurred while loading the map. See error log for more information" Believing it would be a relatively simple fix as he wasn't running any mods for the fear of losing another save game, he delved into the file and soon the problem was pretty obvious.

"Exception from asynchronous event line 122604 position 16." Seems pretty standard so far.
He says how he believes the time of the save corresponded to a slight power cut he experienced due to snow; but that's fine the save must be salvageable, right?

"Woahly sh*t i think i see the problem. Theres like 10,000 copies of the same line."
"Theres been an exception and its just been copied down about 10,000 times in the log"
"So theres an item here, basic shirt, health value, ooh. Okay, so it goes colour, then half way through the world colour it just had some sort of an exception and then the word null just goes down about 10,000 times."
"Oh god theres so many... i sh*t you not its like, good grief its all the way to the base of the log"
"Its reached some sort of character limit for the log so there is nothing after this shirt's attributes, its just null, more like a hundred thousand times down, and it just ends because its hit some sort of character limit"

So Womble's assessment leads him to pretty reasonably assume the exception made so many nulls (seemingly an infinite loop of them) that it hit a character limit for the save file, leading to an unknown amount of the save file to be lost which would have been saved after this one shirt; but thats fine there must be hidden autosaves, right? Wrong.

I wont quote the lines upon him realising there was no option of autosaves or recovery for the sake of this post staying up and being useful to someone without being taken down for profanity.

After this though he suggests a cause, the technicalities, implications and context of which are far beyond my current knowledge of software engineering. (I wont attempt to translate this as i'm sure creators of such a game have more than enough knowledge of the terminology and intricacies, and have had enough of people such as myself knowing little to nothing about the subject but still believing they have the answer.)
"It was just running through an array. Right, so this was just one small array like in the middle of the save file... it was just running through it and then it just saved and now its just 10,000 nulls right to the end, and it didn't bother closing that array..."

This quite vividly shows a gaping hole in the iron man mode; such a shame from such a good developer with such a good game. While i understand an iron man mode is meant to have no saves someone could revert to for gameplay purposes; i would have hoped hidden savefiles would have been made containing backups of the world or some other recovery option to be available to corrupted files such as this.

I have very little knowledge of the ins and outs of software engineering and coding and if someone such as SovietWomble, someone who used to be in the software engineering trade, has no hope of solving many issues such as this, what hope do us mere mortals have?

As i can only quote what i would see to be useful information from what is a famously secretive youtuber's 20 minute stream  (Link to the stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/233663719) and have no knowledge of the issue, the file or the technology surrounding it i would urge you to please contact Soviet directly to try to find a fix; not just for his save but any that may come into the same issue in the future.

If Soviet updates us with anything i will be sure to update here as well just in case it is of any help.

-Thank you for reading and i hope this message finds you well