Ridiculous slow loading

Been trying to fix ridiculously slow loading since the new update. Game runs perfectly once the world is loaded, and no settings seem to affect loading time. I've also never had this issue before.

Thing is, it takes around an hour to load a map. Never had this issue before. Tried a clean install, moving the user folder around, I tried safe mode. The empty grid map loads normally. The rest of them take way too long.

Please help.

Running on win 11.

Update: Installed it on an SSD and still the same. This is now the third clean install that takes ages to load. No mods, nothing. It loads "base" then trips up when loading terrain.

 

Same issue here, loading a map take like 5+ minutes, it took around a minute before the update

 

If it takes more than an hour it's probably not your SSD

 

Yeah that's what I figure. Same long loading on HDD as well as SSD. And only since the 0.36 update.

 

Another fresh, completely clean install:

Base loads in under 5 sec.

Loaded 18 objects - 4 min.

Loaded 46339 forest items of 53 types - 5 min.

The rest after that takes 45 min to 1 hour. I'm thinking it freezes for some reason, and I'm all out of ideas or things to try.

Task manager says it doesn't use any resources during this stage.