PSA regarding research halting/won't complete due to an Experiment requirement

[BACKSTABUU]

This happened to me earlier, and has happened in the past, so I am posting my workaround.

I was researching the chemical refinery, attempting to make fertilizer for my crops. The research was halted at the first stage, and it was saying the Experiment: Raw Chemicals was incomplete, despite me having the raw chemicals in inventory. I found out that because there was another research project that was attempted before the chemical refinery for which I didn't have the resources for it's requisite Experiment step at the research workbench, it wouldn't allow the Experiment: Raw chemicals task to be completed at the workbench, even after deleting that other research project from the research queue.

The workaround that i found was deconstructing the previous workbench and building a new one. Building a new workbench in addition to the old one may also work, but the old logjammed one seemed not to take any other input. It seems like a lot of these situations are resolved by dismantling and then rebuilding, even in other construction projects.

Hope this helped you before it helped me, as half my arboretum was empty for lack of fertilizer and my crew was starving.

[Playzr 🐵]

I've noticed that when your research bench is assigned something to dissect or dismantle, it can't move on to something else that you do have. So you have to find those corpses or whatever it is before you can move on to something where you do have the resources. That just seems to be the way it goes. I had tried moving the bench once but it had stayed on the same research.
The fertiliser and water seems to be in short supply as your ship grows. You end up with less ice to mine and buy than you need. It's not like we can just stop growing the crew size since any people you find in pods or cocooned to the wall automatically join. Maybe we could just not open the pods I guess. I wish the traders had an abundance of stuff. It seems like you're the only one in the universe that has more than 20 of something. And when you do trade for what you want they take so long to restock.

[DAOWAce]

This is still a problem a year later.

Don't know how to fix it besides rebuilding the workbench over and over and over until the research requirements are satisfied, and obviously pausing any that aren't before rebuilding.

Otherwise, research appears to be completely haulted forever.

[RavensDaemon]

You can just remove the research that is stopping the bench and it will clear the queue from the bench. No need to be overly dramatic about it. Just remove the research.