While working on the bucket, I also came across that idea of automatically filling it while digging. Graphics for a one-handed bucket would be done now.

Good idea! However, balancing wise the bucket would have to hold a LOT more volume than it has. I don't think that's a problem, realism has never been THAT important in clonk. :3

to add, a lot of my older games required a lot of patching up tunnels that didnt work out so well,

what if you could buy some earth from the shop for like 1 gold(but needs a container to fill?) so that on small maps, someone realises they have dug wayy too much and would like to fill some holes can actually do it without removing MORE dirt(creating MORE holes)

i like to consider myself an artist when i create a settlment, that includes sculpting the landscape to fit. i would like to be able to place dirt that wasnt there in the first place so that those flukes that i messed up on(digging too deep and cant cut a tree down) can be fixed

to add to the idea of using a shovel in conjunction with a bucket--- seeing as barrels are larger versions of buckets, What if a barrel could be hoisted up on the clonk's back if in one hand(possibly making clonk slower)?
while the other hand could hold a larger variety of tools depending on the circumstance?
EXAMPLE--- bucket(for water/lava/acid) shovel(for dirt/diggable material), pick(mined metals/materials), axe (for wood), hands for harvesting (fruits/herbs/poisons)

so that multiple things could be used in conjunction with the barrel/bucket making best use of what buckets/barrels do, Store things.

my ideas to add

What about making the distace of the mouse curser tell if earth chunks should be digged out? As far as I know we're only using the angle between clonk and cursor.
We could show a circle around the clonk and then only dig out earth chunks when the cursor is in this circle. What do you think about that?

I deactivated digging out earth/sand and included the bucket. Feedback welcome!

Known bugs which we may ignore: Since the bucket uses DigFree to collect material, you can collect all diggable stuff like coal, sulphur etc.
I haven't tested it but this may lead to a serious exploit: Use it on coal, get a full bucket and coal pieces, restore coal with the bucket, repeat to infinity. Probably DigFree needs a parameter to dig out items. But then I guess it's okay to fill the bucket with whatever one wishes to, am I right?