I've got a similar problem: I built several multipurpose rooms on top of each other in order to reach the surface (and have a great view up there). This worked fine, and I put in all the ladders to get up there, but at the sea level the ladder is po…
I had the very same problem. In order to find the solution I tried everything mentioned on several web sites or forum discussions, including the hard ones like reinstalling the whole game, moving the game to SSD (it loads much faster, yay, but crash…