Dupe with Electrical Engineering skill is in idle state (temporary solution found)

I discovered my two electrical engineers are trying to do the task that Banhi is doing. If I click to the next task of both electrical engineers the camera follows Banhi. It's so weird!

EUREKA! I know what's the problem. It happends when I have available, in this case, 0,15 microchip and the game becomes crazy! I don't know how it's possible to have 0,15 microchip, but if I enclose it the game works properly.

 

Edited July 11, 2025 by Brikinhos

Hold the phone, I'm having the same bug, I think the problem is the next task.

I keep having dups on this planet get stuck. Each time it says "Power Supply to Petroleum Generator" as the next task and has "supplying power materials" pulsing in the "status" box.

I thought maybe I had some cross wired automation flickering the generators on and off. But it does not look like that's the case. I only have generators and smart batteries on the automation circuit. I do have a fractional microchip on the map somewhere. I'll try putting it in a box of shame. 

https://imgur.com/a/TRobkzH

Edited July 19, 2025 by dysprog

On 7/19/2025 at 2:03 AM, dysprog said:

Hold the phone, I'm having the same bug, I think the problem is the next task.

I keep having dups on this planet get stuck. Each time it says "Power Supply to Petroleum Generator" as the next task and has "supplying power materials" pulsing in the "status" box.

I thought maybe I had some cross wired automation flickering the generators on and off. But it does not look like that's the case. I only have generators and smart batteries on the automation circuit. I do have a fractional microchip on the map somewhere. I'll try putting it in a box of shame. 

https://imgur.com/a/TRobkzH

Hi, I'm going to tell you what exactly I did for dodging the bug:
- Look for all microchips in the asteroid.
- Gather all in the same tile. That's because maybe you have units with less than 1 microchip, for example 0.76, 0,17, etc.
- Install this mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2834936494
- Use the command "forbid item" over the gathered microchip.

Actually, I don't think you need for forbid the item. I found a 3.7 and a .3 of microchips. I moved them to the same location with the 'relocate' command. As soon as i did that, the dups picked them up and tuned up my generators.

I think all you have to to is merge the partials. 

7 hours ago, dysprog said:

Actually, I don't think you need for forbid the item. I found a 3.7 and a .3 of microchips. I moved them to the same location with the 'relocate' command. As soon as i did that, the dups picked them up and tuned up my generators.

I think all you have to to is merge the partials. 

Yeah, that's the point, merge all partials. And you are lucky because the sum is an integer number, not like me, I merged all and I have 0.15 microchip.

Edited July 23, 2025 by Brikinhos

I have the same issue, and it repeats from time to time; it is very annoying. Even trying to deliver them to storage bins or loaders makes a dupe freak out.
When this is getting fixed?

Mod with a potential fix: Steam Workshop::Microchip Bugfix (Test text bug).

Thank you. My game doesn't freeze anymore when I open a side panel.