Crash on selecting penance

Issue Type (Required):

Crash - During Play

Issue Description (Required):

Every time I interact with Hestia, or select Penances from the menu, the game crashes. On any of my characters. Verified files and the crash still occurs.

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

Yes, and I’ve tried disabling them

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

Player ID (Optional):

MeanderingCat

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

GUID: 7048dfd8-feb2-4753-9c05-0951332126ac
Log File:
Info Type:

[Script Error]: …ui/views/penance_overview_view/penance_overview_view.lua:196: attempt to index field ‘_category_to_parent’ (a nil value)

[PC] Upload Console Log & darktide_launcher.log (Optional):

crash_dump-2025-09-24-00.56.57-b378b489-8487-4ad3-93c1-b09e5cd4066c.dmp (1.34 MB)
console-2025-09-24-00.56.57-b378b489-8487-4ad3-93c1-b09e5cd4066c.log (83.4 KB)
darktide_launcher.log (292 KB)

Thanks for reporting - we’ll have this resolved in 1.9.1!