Agreed, I'll look more into it once it happens again. I'll update when it does and about my findings

I've been trying to find one, extensively after I read your reply with filtering for the expected ID's and time frames with no luck.

I did google some more and by default it seems that windows do not log creation and termination of programs, which makes me think that the only clues are in the game ...

I was told on discord I should report this issue.

now the last few weeks I've had a sudden crash of game and steam out of the blue no error, warning and very limited info in the logs from what I've been told

from what I've been told its just that there is a mention of the game crashing not much ...

Well, after a few headaches, I found that this should do the trick in single player mode :
function find_lost_character()
surf = game.get_surface(1)
for ch in surf.get_chunks() do
a = {{ch.x * 32, ch.y * 32}, {ch.x * 32 + 32, ch.y * 32 + 32}}
for k, entity in pairs(surf.find_entities_filtered ...