Hi AngrySlipper, thanks for the report. I was able to reproduce the problem. I have a theory on what may have gone wrong, but I will need to consult with raiguard to confirm. The good news is, I did find a workaround:
- In the Mods menu, disable the Logistic Network Channels mod (leave Recipe Book enabled)
- Load your game. Factorio will warn about mods being removed; ignore this warning and load anyways (be sure to use the 'Load' button, and not 'Sync mods and load')
- Save your game (save a copy, just to be safe)
- Return to the main menu and enable Logistic Network Channels again from the Mods menu
- Load the saved copy of the game. It should now load successfully.
Note that you will need to re-add any channel labels you may have configured. However, the channel setting itself should still be configured as before (channels are defined by the channel force, which is preserved even when the mod is unloaded). Keep the original copy of the save around for a while, just to be safe, but I think you'll be okay.
Note that you could as an alternative follow the steps above but with removing and re-adding Recipe Book instead of Logistic Network Channels. However, I'm not sure if that might break anything for Recipe Book, so to be safe, I'd recommend trying it first the way I described above.