whenever i use a staff on my alpine dragon my game crashes. although I have not tested if it does the same with other dragons.

Game logs? Crash logs? Anything? I can't do much with only that context... :/

In case you are using shaders -threre is a config option to disable the custom dragon staff shader that causes an incompatibility crash with most other shaders.

Are you using shaders? I've also encountered this issue, but only when using shaders.