To clarify: I was using the 1.18 files on a 1.18.1 Forge install, which worked fine. However, once updating to the new 1.18.1 version of the mod, I got a crash during startup. Once I deleted the config file, that fixed the crash, but I just wanted to post this here in cast anybody else ran into a similar problem.

Failure message: Visual Workbench (visualworkbench) encountered an error during the sided_setup event phase
	java.lang.NullPointerException: Registry Object not present: visualworkbench:crafting_table

(This also happened with Easy Magic with the same failure message, just let me know if you want me to post a report over there as well if you want a record of it for future reference.)

Oh, yeah, sure. Sorry, it was such a niche situation I didn't think it'd be a big deal, I just figured it'd be good to have the fix available for someone else to look up just in case. Here are the files:

Crash: https://pastebin.com/fP2xA0KC
Log: https://pastebin.com/BzVyqCH0

The files are the same for both Visual Workbench and Easy Magic, since I had them both installed in the same modpack. They both show up in the crash report.

Would be great to get the full crash log (from .minecraft/crash-reports) and the corresponding log (from .minecraft/logs/latest.log).
This looks like a pretty serious issue. Also getting the files for Easy Magic would be great.

Can you upload the debug.log file? It's in the same location as latest.log.

Sorry, there is no debug.log anywhere, even in the other folders. The logs folder just has latest.log and all the backups.

This should be resolved with PuzzlesLib v.3.3.3 now.