MLB The Show 21’s Stadium Creator: no search function, no night games

The bad news about MLB Show 21the new custom toolkit for creating the stadium? The vault of user-shared creations is almost impossible to find, and there’s no search capability to help you after you click the menu and find out where it lives.

The good news, I think, is that this makes any offensive content harder to find.

I’m kidding, but only partially. The stadium library created by MLB Show is not completely overwhelmed by unacceptable creations, full of ambiguity. However, more parks, have gained a lot of attention in some forums and on social networks for their offensive content. Because these stadiums have user IDs attached, there may be moderation if it hasn’t already arrived.

Regardless, the Stadium Creator mode makes it difficult to present good creations or appreciate the hard work that SIE San Diego Studio developers and their fans put in the first week of release. The biggest hurdle is how users’ creations are displayed or not, as appropriate.

The first, MLB Show 21 it already has a set of four “safes” in which players share things like custom lists, slider difficulty settings, and more importantly, logo designs for teams created in Diamond Dynasty and elsewhere. Players in The Show’s Vaults were happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up.

But the stadiums are in a tool option in Stadium Creator mode, which you only see if you open the Tutorial Park or one of the other 29 fictional terrain templates, as if to edit it. Here are some screenshots to illustrate where that option resides:

To find the Stadium Creator content safe, first open the tool on the Create tab of the game’s main menu.

Image: SIE San Diego Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment via Polygon
Access any of the 30 disc templates included with MLB Show 21 and open it, as if you were editing it.

Image: SIE San Diego Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment via Polygon
After the opening of a park to be edited, the safe is the third icon here. Click on it and you will see everything that other users have uploaded; you will simply not be able to look for anything.

Image: SIE San Diego Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment via Polygon

The game’s UI isn’t much more useful at the moment either. The batch of referrals (currently about 50,000 powerful people) is presented in one direction and in one direction: in descending order, starting with the most recent upload. You cannot search or filter the group at all.

Dedicated fans have tried to share information about their parks in different ways, outside the official system, but it’s hard to spot a specific creation without any means to look for it.

Green cathedrals, once and for all

The difficulty of finding parks is really a shame, because there are some beautiful efforts that are already being made using the tools in the game.

Most recently, I came across “Publix Park” by PlayStation Network user MOLDY TRISKIT. It’s the kind of thing that Tampa Bay Rays fans have sometimes thought of as a replacement for the unforgettable Tropicana field.

indoor photo of a fantastic stadium in MLB The Show 21's Stadium Creator. — “Publix Park,” an outdoor stadium concept for the Tampa Bay Rays, whose IRL-domed home field is cavernous, outdated, sparsely attended, and unsightly.

Other players worked to bring back the green chairs of their favorite team. From Redditor TeamKillerTurbo, this is the Tiger Stadium in Detroit (1912-1999). Until the creator pointed out that all users need to put a bully’s eye in their stadium (the big, empty wall or the empty section of the seat in the center field, giving the hitters a background to see the small white ball), I didn’t realize that Tiger Stadium did not have one.

Tiger Stadium (1912-1999), created by a fan in MLB The Show 21

Any Bay Area baseball fan who remembers how fickle winds could throw pitchers like Stu Miller from the mound would no doubt enjoy this recreation of Candlestick Park by SomeLadyNamedRuth.

Interior of a fan-created Candlestick Park, former home of the San Francisco Giants, in MLB The Show 21

They also made a representation of Denver’s long-lost Mile High Stadium, which was not just the home turf for the NFL Broncos. The minor league Denver Bears and Denver Zephyrs called her home before the Rockies moved in for a short-term lease.

The right field and the stands behind it in the Mile High stadium, recreated by an MLB player The Show 21

And here’s a hell of a follower from SomeLadyNamedRuth: Anaheim Stadium, as it appeared in the 1960s and 1970s, with Big A rising on the left field again!

I’d love to shoot any of these in my Road to the Show or franchise games, but there’s no way to get them unless I know the specific page they’re on (right now, right) and have the patience to scroll to a page by row.

I certainly appreciate San Diego Studio, including 30 parks of different sizes and architectural types to mess with – allowing you to rebuild your high school, minor league or even Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa. The options offered to the players are strong.

But repositioning objects, cycling through the very deep library of what is available, and manipulating the height of the wall outside the field are all multi-step processes that take time to understand. Stadium Creator comes with several guided tutorials and it is good to follow them all to know what you are doing. For now, though, it’s the time I’d rather play playing baseball itself, especially when I know there’s almost no way to share my creations in a meaningful way.

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Green cathedrals, once and for all

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