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That’s the order, that may be part of what messed it up. Technically you have to go in exact reverse order of installation. It would have to be uninstall Aric’s to uninstall the bugfix and reinstall the bugfix before reinstalling Aric’s. If you uninstalled the bugfix while Aric’s was active, that did likely Bork things up.

I’d recommend to uninstall both, download/extract a new game and reinstall to be safe. If it still happens from there, try going to in your AppData/Strive/mods/AricsExpansion/customScripts/expansionsettings and changing the version number to something higher like 17a or something. It’ll force the game to rerun backwards compatibility and hopefully fix the issue if it’s related to the save game.