Crashing After New Outpost Construction v 1.0.55

[sizler]

Hello LoFi, love your game.

Kenshi keeps crashing when I walk into The Hub. The problem arose after I started building an outpost due southwest, equidistant from The Hub and Squin. For the job, I decided to ferry a couple builders from The Hub. Crash occurs when I reenter The Hub with the builders, not upon rendering, but when the builders enter town walls (not always the case; has crashed otherwise, like when they walk past the Hub and enter the rebel bar due north). I do have a stormhouse in town which contains research tables, storage, an ore deposit etc. For the outpost, only an exterior shell of tier 2 walls and a gate exist at the time. Another thing to note is I have 5 other characters with iron ore jobs who are working continuously out of The Hub.

Maybe the crashes have to do with character proximity to interiors, but it's hard to tell what triggers it. Another guess is bandits are trying to path to the new outpost to raid it, but some interaction with the stormhouse in The Hub is causing a problem.

Crashes are reproducible. Walking into town always causes a crash. Have tried reinstall/verifying integrity.

Update: I guided my builders away from town for a while and built some ramps and started an L-house. This caused some starving bandits to come knocking on the gate. I ran past them and went back to The Hub. However, the issue has worsened. The latest quicksave now always crashes after some 15 seconds of being loaded. A "loading..." prompt appears at the top before the crash occurs.

System stats are Windows 10, AMD Ryzen 5 3600, ROG Strix B-550F, with 16GB of RAM. Lowering settings doesn't seem to affect the crashes.