My plan is to give it a fair shot when its done , or nearing done. We were lead to believe before preordering in april that that was the case. Which it so obviously wasnt.
Again, not to be rude in any manner, but I didnt pay money and preorder, to alpha test for you. I preordered to play a game that was supposedly launching in May. Those that are willing to pay to alpha, power to them. I am not. However, I did pay and preorder, thus giving me the right to ask, how is it coming along? What state realisticly are we at?
All crafting skills are in, there are huge amount of different recipes. You can hunt animals, skin them, you can fish, gather materials, forage, make fire, cooking isn't in yet. Hunger and thirst affects your character, you gain back stamina much slower if you are hungry. Some of the tribe features are already in, some of them are coming with the next update. You can set up a tribe camp by placing the totem, build buildings ( mostly different type of tents, fences and walls) and you can terraform inside your tribe area. Tribe ranks and player made quests are coming with the next update.
The game is definitely playable now, way more features are in than were in April, when there were nothing but PvP and cutting trees. If you would like to try it when its nearly done I suggest you to wait for the next patch, I think it will add almost everything they plan to have by launch.