Tinkering dupe randomly restarts the microchip tinkering process

Same issue with natural gas gens, tinkering action keeps restarting although dupe has not changed tasks, played with priorities, swept area, nothing fixed just kept resetting the tuneup process over and over, even got the 100 tuneups achievement though 96 of those were on the same gen just trying to get the tuneup completed

 

Just realised, whatever is causing the process to reset affects every dupe currently doing a tuneup action, had two working next to each other resetting in unison.

 

Update again, i reloaded game, put the doors to the room on auto instead of open and killed nearby Dreckos, problem is gone, although i don't know which of those things fixed the issue. wouldn't be something silly like a Drecko setting it's walk path through the generator disrupting the process? or perhaps doors to power station room need to be closed. Give those ideas a try haha.

Edited August 3, 2019 by angryspoon
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Same issue here with a coal generator.

Killed the critter in the room.

Problem solved.

Thanks @angryspoon

Same thing. In my case, luckily, it was setting the doors on auto, rather than getting rid of the shinebugs inside, that helped. Too bad I decided to finally sort the issue out on cycle 95.