It worked normally in a new savefile, and the only difference I know is that the first was created after the tutorial and the second one from the main menu (since I won't do the tutorial twice).
Maybe the tutorial has a bug, or launch the game in an older version of it.
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Thanks for the report, however that's not what causes the bug. I tried it several times with the tutorial and for me it's completely fine. In fact I never managed to reproduce this bug. I've added an error logger to the next build and hoping that it will lead me to this very annoying bug... Restarting the game almost always fixes it...