Maybe I’ll reach the top someday.
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Those poor hearthlings!!
lol, I wanted to test out something similar! Great job! 
A short update to what happened:
The hearthlings do not have any trouble running up or down the giant staircase. The only trouble is building it since they tend to create useless scaffolding and every other worker uses up all the wood. Sometimes a single worker will quickly get the job done before too much scaffolding is built.
My save file broke. But I’m sure it was some mod I was using, so I tried again in a new game. This time I used instabuild to reach the highest of the high. Again, they had no trouble running up way way high, it simply took them a very long time to reach higher than the render distance can see the ground.
I did not reach any height cap. I would have kept going if it wasn’t for the camera. Controlling the camera is extremely difficult. There’s nothing to “grab on to” and slowly pan your view. WASD is impossible at such height, the smallest tap of any direction will send you 50+ blocks in that direction. Using the mouse wheel to zoom out only works to a set distance from whatever object your mouse cursor is on. Rotating works by what is in the center of your view. Imagine some crosshairs right in the middle of the screen. Whatever object is there, the camera will rotate around it.
So now try to imagine the number of times I built the staircase, scroll out, quickly tap W trying not to overshoot it, scroll out, repeat, press E to rotate the camera. Nope I’m a mile away centered around some tree that was beyond my view.
Okay that wasn’t a short update.
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Not short but instructive! Again, well done! 
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Spacebar and moving the mouse can be a little more sensitive than WASD, but it may not be enough.
How did you build that building? Just placing each block at a time all the way up there? Or did you make a template of, say, one loop, then build that on top of itself?
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I never use spacebar so I’m not sure it’ll work high up without ground.
I made a template. It was two vertical pillars of slab next to each other, the staircase was built around it and then the pillars were deleted. Imagine looking down a spiral staircase. It would be like that. It was two pillars because that was easier to build instead of one.
I got lucky in the fact that the template was able to build on top of itself perfectly.
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