Quality of item built by multiple persons, how is it determined?

[asanbr]

When building beds, for example, where quality is important, I often make an effort to have my best constructor build it to improve the outcome.

Sometimes I forget to enforce and micromanage this and it happens that several people build something. Not so often for beds, but for a dining table which takes more work, it can easily happen that one person starts the work, gets interrupted or goes to sleep, someone else finishes the work later on.



How is quality determined if, let's say one person with skill 1 does half the work and another with skill 20 does the rest of the work? Is it only determined by who does the last unit of work on an object?

[TLHeart]

yes it is, the quality is determined when the final build tick is done. Does not matter who starts it, same with sculptures.

[Shadou]

Personally, I've never been able to have multiple colonists work on the same item. I tried to get a colonist to finish a shirt at a tailoring station that another colonist had started. I even turned off tailoring for the colonist that started the work. The unfinished shirt was moved to storage, and the colonist that still had tailoring turned on started a new shirt, wouldn't even touch the unfinished shirt. The unfinished shirt stayed in storage through 3 more crafts, until I finally decided to let the guy who started it finish it.

This happened because I had a new colonist jump on the tailoring station as soon as they joined. I had a colonist that normally did the tailoring work, but he was apparently busy on something else when the new guy joined. I wasn't quick enough to change his work priorities, and he started making a shirt. His skill was about 5 points less than the usual tailor, too, so I wanted to get my usual tailor to finish the job. No dice.

[stranger080]

Personally, I've never been able to have multiple colonists work on the same item. I tried to get a colonist to finish a shirt at a tailoring station that another colonist had started. I even turned off tailoring for the colonist that started the work. The unfinished shirt was moved to storage, and the colonist that still had tailoring turned on started a new shirt, wouldn't even touch the unfinished shirt. The unfinished shirt stayed in storage through 3 more crafts, until I finally decided to let the guy who started it finish it.

This happened because I had a new colonist jump on the tailoring station as soon as they joined. I had a colonist that normally did the tailoring work, but he was apparently busy on something else when the new guy joined. I wasn't quick enough to change his work priorities, and he started making a shirt. His skill was about 5 points less than the usual tailor, too, so I wanted to get my usual tailor to finish the job. No dice.

Clothes and sculptures have an "owner" and that person can only work on that item, no one else can work on it

[Toggle]

yes it is, the quality is determined when the final build tick is done. Does not matter who starts it, same with sculptures.

Completely matters who starts it? Because then it's their work, nobody else can do it.

[BetaSpectre]

IRL master builders had people do most of the grunt work, then add finishing details.
Then the master builder modifies mistakes as well.

Now this won't apply if the base material was damaged beyond repair, and to fix mistakes should take just as long as starting over.

[TLHeart]

yes it is, the quality is determined when the final build tick is done. Does not matter who starts it, same with sculptures.

Completely matters who starts it? Because then it's their work, nobody else can do it.

not on furniture, and with multiple sculpture tables, the tag of who started the sculpture does not persist, and another can finish the sculpture.