Farmer constantly restarting job when applying Micronutrient fertilizer

I have the same issue. Nothing fancy or odd going on. "New behavior"/bug. Changing the priority of the tile to low will make the dupe reprioritize and go do something else. Checking the dupes status window you can see for a tick that he switches from "Tinkering" to "Tending plant" and the "Lit workspace" buff gets reapplied. 

I've had this bug as well, I believe that it's caused by critters. Whenever a critter leaves or enters the room, the tending gets reset for some reason. Not sure about this though since it was hard to keep track of the moment critters leave/enter.

Edit: observed a bit more, pretty sure critters are the cause.

Edited August 19, 2019 by tlink2000

On 2019-08-19 at 6:45 AM, tlink2000 said:

I've had this bug as well, I believe that it's caused by critters. Whenever a critter leaves or enters the room, the tending gets reset for some reason. Not sure about this though since it was hard to keep track of the moment critters leave/enter.

Edit: observed a bit more, pretty sure critters are the cause.

Interesting. I tried to observe them and the closest I came to a conclusion was that it is when a critter sets a destination that's outside the greenhouse. Not passing the door or leaving the greenhouse, but starting the move to leave it. Wrangling them all, (which should be similiar to not having them there in the first place) did make the resets stop happening.

As a side note i feel today's patch helped this. For some reason my dupes fails it less frequently, could just be that i rebuilt it somehow so the critters dont move out as often.

Why critters leaving a greenhouse would make a duplicate stop putting farmer's touch on plants, beats me though.