Did you choose to not have any creatures in this game?  Also, is this the first time you tried loading a save from that game, or had previous saves worked just fine?

With a patch, you should be able to load your save game and finish your game; it's not corrupted or anything.  But you have no creatures or an AI player to control them when I loaded the save up, and I want to know if this is something you purposefully set up, or something bad happened earlier in your game.

Thanks for getting back to me.  Good things to know... I thought it was maybe possible you liked playing without creatures, so I thought I'd check.

I can load your saves up through the black magic of having access to the source code and getting around the problematic parts .  Specifically, your saves are crashing because the game isn't creating a creature AI (a bug in itself that I fixed so it won't crash anymore in the future), but your additional info tells me you wouldn't be particularly happy to recover this save with all the monsters gone .  Thanks for your help, I will try to find the core issue, and it's possible once the next patch goes out that you will be able to load them up again, I'll let you know.

jutetrea, could you upload one of those saves?  You're right that it could be mods, but I just want to see if you are still crashing in the same place bortlings is, because it is possible there is some data issue I just haven't been able to find yet, and having a smaller earlier save might make it easier to find.  Thanks.