From 24a631ee2ae54709b700ff236820c7d56c4d8917 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Novatux <nathanael.courant@laposte.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 10:51:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix crash reported here:
 https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9726

---
 builtin/game/forceloading.lua | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builtin/game/forceloading.lua b/builtin/game/forceloading.lua
index 147f12fa..8c9fbf51 100644
--- a/builtin/game/forceloading.lua
+++ b/builtin/game/forceloading.lua
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ local function read_file(filename)
 	local t = f:read("*all")
 	f:close()
 	if t=="" or t==nil then return {} end
-	return core.deserialize(t)
+	return core.deserialize(t) or {}
 end
 
 local function write_file(filename, table)