I’ve been playing it over the last few days. Cozy games aren’t my thing, and not for lack of trying. I played Stardew Valley with friends and I couldn’t stay interested. Pokemon largely hasn’t excited me since gen 2.
Minecraft, however, is something I really enjoyed, especially back when it was in beta, so I thought a “pokemon plus minecraft” type game might interest me. I’m not sure yet, but clearly a lot of people like it.
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.