My carpenter lies idle even though i have designated them tasks to complete in their workshop…
Also when building villagers leave random wood blocks on top of structures.
Carpenter is continuing to not make anything.
Update: briefly switching away, then back to their job seems to correct this.
But now I am also having an issue where they will not complete building a structure.
Hey!
Firstly welcome!
The issue with resources being left on rooftop is very well known, Here’s the main bug report for resources left on the roofs:
As for the carpenter idle issue, I’m glad it’s fixed for now, I have had a good look and can’t seem to find any threads that reported a similar issue, So thanks for that report! 
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Thanks for the update!
But unfortunately a new problem turned up; stated above, and I am trying to figure it out.
Update: Looking at it again I believe this was due to my error as I accidentally built the structure too close to a cliff.
Perhaps implement coding to disable the player to building structures into a cliff?
Hey!
Do you have a screen shot of the errors? As a new user you can’t upload them but if you add them to a website like imgur.com A mod or a crab can embed them for you!
As for building near cliff, It’s going to be similar anywhere if your hearthlings can’t place scaffold around the structure.
This however is already a reported bug:
Hope that helped 
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Awesome thank you! 
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Here’s a post I made about fixing idle hearthlings and other problems, should help you out with a few of the problems you’ve mentioned … Idle Hearthlings, Unfinished Builds and Ghost Items? Here’s a Fix!
This helped a lot thank you!
Depending on what you mean by “near”, it’s actually possible to get around the issue with building up against a cliff, providing your Hearthlings don’t decide to not start building at all. You’ll simply have to manually place ladders inside the house (max 2 empty voxels between ladders) to let them build the next level of wall.
I imagine this wouldn’t work if part of the structure is actually INSIDE the cliff, but for my silly built-into-the-hill structures, this has worked out so far. It’s micro-managey as all get-out, but it’ll get the job done.
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Another issue that seems to be apparent is that my villagers do not pick up drops from monsters.
For that you have to use the looting key. It’s not automatic. I mention it in the other post lol.
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huh thats interesting…