diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index cbcb80fd6..bd7fefa0a 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -209,3 +209,4 @@ suggestions:
   Profpatsch
   Bernd Humpa
   darkfeline
+  Onion
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3b75473ce..a2c8dfb3f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
 - TW-1307 burndown is aliased to burndown.weekly (thanks to darkfeline).
 - TW-1309 memory error, if misconfigured calendar.details.report (thanks to
           Onion).
+- TW-1318 creating a UDA in the wrong sequence will cripple taskwarrior (thanks
+          to Onion).
 - Removed deprecated 'echo.command' setting, in favor of the 'header' and
   'affected' verbosity tokens.
 - Removed deprecated 'edit.verbose' setting, in favor of the 'edit' verbosity
diff --git a/src/columns/Column.cpp b/src/columns/Column.cpp
index 59330ea61..f39edad9e 100644
--- a/src/columns/Column.cpp
+++ b/src/columns/Column.cpp
@@ -183,12 +183,13 @@ Column* Column::uda (const std::string& name)
   std::string key = "uda." + name + ".type";
   c->_type = context.config.get (key);
   if (c->_type == "")
-    throw format (STRING_UDA_TYPE_MISSING, name);
+    context.error (format  (STRING_UDA_TYPE_MISSING, name));
+
   if (c->_type != "string"   &&
       c->_type != "date"     &&
       c->_type != "duration" &&
       c->_type != "numeric")
-    throw std::string (STRING_UDA_TYPE);
+    context.error (STRING_UDA_TYPE);
 
   key = "uda." + name + ".label";
   if (context.config.get (key) != "")