How to troubleshoot a crash 101

[Musashironin]

I would like to ask all professional modders to add hints and suggestions on what to search in the error log when troubleshooting for a possible crash cause. Please refrain from simple answers ike -Try disabling the mod one after another. That is not a viable option most of the time, especially if you're working with 0 or more mods and the crash happens after a certain number of years in the game. All irrelevant suggestions will be deleted. Let's keep it neat and clean

 

[forbiddenlake]

The problem with your request is that there is no good way.

1. The error log is usually completely UNrelated to the actual crash. The crash data doesn't get written to the error log, so chasing the error log is usually a waste of time.
2. The crash report is mostly unreadable by us players. There is a public tool to translate crash exceptions in to .. something .. but how much does this help you? A little, not a lot (that one seems to be a country modifier, which is a clue, but which mod? which file? which modifier? which country?).

So the best answer we have is to disable mods until you don't crash. Which is a poor answer, but it's the state we're in.