From 3a651763e3411db9370e09fd6f37f4b73d4496a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: morfidon <57798071+morfidon@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:39:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Relax stash failure classification

Treat a missing stash archive as an acceptable state when classifying save failures. This preserves the previous game save result instead of reporting no valid save when the player never created a stash.
---
 Source/loadsave.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Source/loadsave.cpp b/Source/loadsave.cpp
index a4ea5be81..5043df630 100644
--- a/Source/loadsave.cpp
+++ b/Source/loadsave.cpp
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ bool ActiveSaveContainsStash()
 {
 	auto archive = OpenStashArchive();
 	if (!archive)
-		return false;
+		return true;
 
 	const char *stashFileName = gbIsMultiplayer ? "mpstashitems" : "spstashitems";
 	return ReadArchive(*archive, stashFileName) != nullptr;