(0.75.3) Crashing within 10~ seconds of loading this save

[asaguda]

Normally I don't bother with reporting crashes because I'm always afraid mine might be duplicate ones, so I just save often and reload if it crashes (Which didn't happen all that often until this version,) but this time, the crash keeps happening 10-20 seconds after loading this save, consistently, without fail.

If I remember right, I was watching some dust bandits fighting beak things, wondering if I should intervene. Looking at the stats of the beak things, I decided to just keep going to Brink, as I was on my way there before being distracted by the fight. The game autosaved shortly after I began moving, and 10~ seconds later it crashed. Every time I load it, it crashes again within 10~ seconds, and no settings I change make it stop crashing.

Crash dump attached, save game link; https://www.dropbox.com/s/l3d29ib72599v ... 1.zip?dl=0
I'll be trying the second latest save I have at this point, since I want to keep playing.

[asaguda]

Correction: It's a caravan party. And I remember kiting the beak things from a nest to them because I'm an ass. I did it again on an earlier quicksave and shortly after they begin fighting, it crashes again. I'll try not to kite them, however tempting it may be, and see if it crashes anyway.

EDIT: I tried an even earlier save that didn't have the caravan spawned and I made it to Brink fine, as I'd saved over the quicksave where the caravan party was spawned but not yet engaged with the beak things, and then promptly crashed (The attached crash dump is for the above non-edit crash) again, this time it doesn't repeat so I kept playing after.

[Zeal]

I can't confirm whether or not this is the cause of your crash, but it's likely.. There's a problem with npcs picking up Wildlife because they have a bounty on them. If your game is saved at a point where an npc is already approaching to pick up a wildlife, then the only thing you're going to be able to do to get around this is to import into a new game.