I like what you have so far, but the lack of a (clear) goal means that there's little incentive to play for very long. I liked being able to bring things to life to defend or gather, but the way you control them could use a bit of improvement.
I would have liked to be able to have my minions set to follow me so I wouldn't have to click so many times when I want to take someone with me somewhere. I would also like it if you could set them to either attack, gather or do nothing, so if they're moving I wouldn't have to click again to have them attack or something.
Showing all the recipes in game even when you don't have the items might be helpful in figuring out what to do as well. Having tooltips or some sort of description of what items do would also be helpful.
I'm also not sure if I was using the soul powder right since I never got it to work. I would stand next the the skull left behind when you kill someone and select the soul powder and try to use it like mana powder, but nothing ever happened.