I have been getting this bug for a long time now, and it appears that others are getting it as well. The bug symptoms are that when you load a saved game, the hearthlings drop what they are doing and will no longer do anything at all.
These are the steps that guarantee that my save game will become bugged.
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Play game and save at some point, even if you only play for one game day.
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quit game
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close out steam.
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Reboot computer.
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Your save game is now bugged when you restart.
So it would seem that restarting the computer is the main contributor. Either the game is not handling a dynamic ip, or something is not getting saved from memory to the save game file. Or maybe it has something to do with steam…