Creatures Caves

I wanted to raise a world fulla geats (and metallophagus grendels, I guess) for fun, but I encounter runtime errors whenever two or more gaius (there's 4 in this world) get too close to each other. people have mentioned this in the past, but nobody has ever found a solution for it. I did some research to figure out what triggers the glitch and came to this conclusion: The wasteland glitch and this game crash are both triggered in the same way, and may therefore be the SAME bug that has a different effect depending on circumstances and/or operating system.

The glitch is triggered when a geat looks at another geat. As far as I know only one geat has to be looking at the other for this to occur. I performed 3 or 4 small tests that appear to confirm this:

CRASH 1
This crash occurred off-screen, so i don't know the exact circumstances, but about 30 seconds before it happened i had noticed two of the gaius had met each other in the geat metaroom and, since this room is very barren and I hadn't added very many outside objects, they wound up looking at each other...

CRASH 2
Looking at other forum posts i hypothesized that the crash was caused by three or more geats existing in the same room, so I froze them using amaikokonut's hotkeys and put them in the same room in the bottom floor of the norn meso. since they couldnt shift their gaze it did nothing. I unfroze them and took them into all the other metarooms to see if that caused the bug. when I put all four gaius into the same corridor of Random's Room, the game crashed.

CRASH 3
Placed the gaius back in random's room again to see if the crash was caused simply by the geats existing or if it was some action they were doing. I put 3 of them in there and it crashed again.

CRASH 4
at this point I was certain it was caused by them looking at each other, so my final test was to put two of them in the comms room and unfreeze them. Less than a second later the game crashed, and when it closed I noticed one of the gaius had turned to face the other one.

CONCLUSION
The "wasteland glitch" actually has multiple effects. the first one is that it will set all room types to 0, which was believed to be the only symptom. the second is that the game crashes due to a C runtime error. the third one is that nothing happens at all, which explains why Jessica was able to wolf with Gaius just fine. This further complicates developing a potential fix for the issue, if we EVER will...

Why'd I write this, you ask? err, awareness, I guess??? I would appreciate people with different operating systems hatching a few Gaius and testing this out for themselves. my computer runs 64-bit Windows 10.