Research tab goes blank

[lude]

you could potentially go into mods/CCL/defs/MainTabDefs/MainTabs.xml, and comment out the research tab section like so:

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<!--
<MainTabDef>
    <defName>Research</defName>
    <label>research</label>
    <description>Examine and decide on research projects.</description>
    <windowClass>CommunityCoreLibrary.MainTabWindow_Research</windowClass>
    <order>90</order>
  </MainTabDef>
-->

(adding the 'arrows')
That'll stop CCL overriding the vanilla research tab. Alternatively, wait for the next CCL release, which will likely still have the bug (because I can't find the darn thing), but handle it more gracefully and - crucially - provide us with a more detailed error dump when it does fail.

I have that ominous error as well, it doesn't throw out any exception, it only rarely happens, in my case it's probably related to HSK modpack, reload doesn't solve the problem only complete restart.

It especially likes to happen after adding a new mod, but this might be magical thinking of mine

anyhow, so far every restart solved it immediately for me

[skullywag]

Just to check if you open the game visit rhe modpage it happens. If you close the modpage and the game and start normally its fine?

[hippieshopper]

Hey yeah that did it. Honestly my eyes glaze over when I see code and stuff but I tried it and that seemed to fix all my problems.
Adding those little arrow doodads made all the difference.

Thanks so much guys! If I could buy you a beer I would.

[Fluffy (l2032)]

guys if this happens after changing anything related to mods, e.g. load order, adding/removing a mod or even opening the mod screen, and the error goes away on a full reload of RimWorld, then what you're seeing is a known issue with rimworld in general; you need to do a restart of the game every time you've fiddled with the mod list.

[timeandtherani]

Success!  I commented out the research tab and everything worked.  I even loaded up all the mods I had before and it still works.   Thank y'all for your help!

Yeah, I always restart the game after I add mods. 

[lude]

Just to check if you open the game visit rhe modpage it happens. If you close the modpage and the game and start normally its fine?

you're absolutely right that always this happened I was on the modpage in the main menu