Thank you for the explanation and quick response! It looks like the cache thing was a red herring: if I revert to default settings a repeat the load-save-load-again dance I’m back to 13 seconds loading time on 1.1.101 with mods enabled. So there is no regression: what takes minutes is only the versi...

Loading my current save file takes surprisingly long after upgrading. The progress bar appears to complete in a few seconds, then appears stuck long enough that at first i closed the game and tried again. * Save file (86 MiB): [removed] * Log file of a 3 minutes load: [removed] Other configurations ...