Seperate the Building process further into:

1. Cleaning/digging
2. Scaffolding
3. Building the building

Scaffolding would be constructed around the not yet built building, to assist with building it. Could make use of Ladders to allow builders to climb up. Only needed when the Building actually has a certain Height, e.g. 5+ blocks above the ground. Also the 2. scaffolding task should be done by another new hut, not the builder himself.

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Maybe level 1 builders will do everything, but as they improve they specialize. So a scaffolder is a level 2 building upgrade to the level 1 builder, but a level 2 builder avoids scaffolding and at 3 just doesn't do it. Maybe make the miner a level 2 or 3 digger specialization. Such a mechanic could have a lot of uses. In the long term it might even make some openings for adding custom workers.

Depends on #3044

Requires some additional steps

• Add a new step into entityAiStructure which calculates the outline of the building
• on clearing step we can calculate how many blocks the block is underground (how many blocks deep the builder has to dig)
• after clearing step a worker can do it
• worker ai needs to get the materials (fence, slabs, ladders, planks) (Should have a way to select the material)
• Should only be needed if building is higher than x blocks (and not in the ground like the star wars style for example)

Cool ideas. Digger & Scaffolder should be the same hut. Otherwise a new colony with 4 initial citizens needs 3 right away to be digger, scaffolder and builder. The scaffold could be like the Immersive Engineering scaffold and can act as ladders for both the workers and players. No extra ladders needed to go up and down. The system already places the fence to outline the building. Replace that with scaffolding to the height of the building. Scaffolder takes down scaffolding when hut is complete so it is returned to inventory and can be used again. Scaffold recipe should be fairly simple. Sticks and planks, maybe like the vanilla fence recipe with 1 extra row of planks/sticks.

or the level 1 hut could be very simple/easy to build so that its no real hassle setting up 2-3 huts at the start

might mention that scaff is usually put up by the builders themselves in the real world (however digging/etc isn't)