So it does work the way you explained it, at least for a portion of the buildings. you drop full individual block blueprints and supply all the resources and your npc’s will build it.

The confusion might be due to there also being the presence of smaller buildings that don’t work that way and also have loading screens.

knowing there’s just big hands inside their flippers is unsettling

and dinosaurs is birds

Isn’t this a part of a larger iOS problem where swipes often register as taps? I frequently have widgets think they were tapped on or ads open up in apps because I scrolled by with my finger resting on them