When opening a save file made with a previous version of the mod, there was an error message about line 42 of event.lua. I was able to fix this by changing that line from
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log("Detected mod update for mod "..mod_name..", old version '"..mod_version"', new version '"..new_version"'.")
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to
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log("Detected mod update for mod "..mod_name..", old version '"..mod_version.."', new version '"..new_version.."'.")
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