Upgrades take multiple minutes to do at this point. My bar takes over 5 minutes to deplete. It seems like there is more to the game, but I have no idea what to do. I've just been playing for an hour of real time.
I'm gonna give up at this point. I'm tired. I saw something called crank seance once when I started about an hour ago, but never saw it again after failing to complete it. Maybe that has something to do with it but I have no idea tbh.
I'm not sure if I just got terrible luck or if something else was going on, but past a certain point the game felt really slow. My progress was erased from clicking out of the window, and I'm not really feeling up to doing that all again.
Edit: I checked the drop rates, and it really seems it was awful luck. I got at least 15 fledglings total, but only 1 spectral residue at the very beginning and not a single mushroom.