I apologize if this has been answered, or isnt due to this mod, or for any other reason why I may be doing this wrong.

After updating mods, my inventory goes back to standard size and pukes everything onto the map.

Is there a way to prevent and/or repair that?

Love the mod!

This is a know issue, sorry to say but i don't have any good way to prevent that.
You can pick up things from ground holding "F" and running on them or you can use Deconstruction Planner and your bots will do work for you :)

Thanks for the response, Zig!

In the past the solution you recommend is exactly what I've done.

Is there no way to restore the expanded inventory size? It has happened before but later "fixed" itself.

Picking up the inventory is trivial if I have the expanded inventory back, but I cant figure out how to bring it back.

EDIT: I 'fixed' the problem by disabling Zig's QOL, saving, quitting, enabling Zig's QOL, and launching. All my settings were saved, so not too bad.

I wonder if a small chunk of code can be added to 're-initialize' the mod after an update is detected...

I made a new version of the mod that hopefully will fix this issue.
I tested it with 1.1.36 update and problem no longer occurs.

Well done! thanks!