I did not enjoy tinkering with these tools-it feels more like work than play. When building a vehicle in Planet Explorers, it feels like I showed up unprepared for the final exam of my 3D modeling class. I climb ladders, lay everything down brick by brick like a virtual construction worker, and step back to admire my creation. When I'm building my super-duper pillow fort in Minecraft, I'm building it as if I were living in that world. The tutorials are not good (and could easily improve by time of release), but even if they were, the tools just aren't an interesting, fun way to create things. These are very in-depth, and I had to learn how (or at least try) to use them like a dedicated piece of software. Planet Explorers also has building tools for structures, vehicles, and weapons. It was hard for me to tell I was even firing, let alone that it was having any kind of effect on my target. Worst of all, it offered nearly no feedback.
I was really happy, for example, when I finally got the materials I needed to build a rifle, but firing it felt so awkward, weak, and inconsistent with the game's PG tone, it was downright embarrassing.
Other elements that worked just fine were disappointing all the same. This is one of many technical issues, the most offensive of which is the mysterious disappearance of all my quest data, which as far as I could tell will force me to restart the game from scratch. A Google search, a look at the wiki, and several forums didn't yield a fix. On my current save, the map stopped showing certain types of material and finally stopped working entirely. For example, there's a great 3D map that shows where exactly to find different types of buried materials. It's neat that all these different elements exist in the same game, but not one of them is satisfying on its own, and in its current alpha phase, some of them are barely functional. You literally start without even a pair of pants and with some time and dedication can reach the point where you're operating a huge base with defense turrets, and driving around in a tank of your own design. You and a crew of interstellar colonizers crash land on an alien planet and pick up the pieces from there. It does everything Minecraft does, with more items and more recipes (scripts, as they're called here), but it also has role-playing game elements, with NPCs handing out quests for rewards, party members, factions, and a fairly in-depth arsenal of weapons.
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