Haha, thank you for playing!
Yeah the little guys getting stuck is a know issue that I haven't had the time to resolve. I did push out a patch the day after jam submissions. I tried to reduce the little guys getting stuck but unfortunately it was not a full fix :(. There is a timer in place to terminate their collecting state if they get stuck for too long but yeah it's just one of those things I'll have to figure out.
The balancing for some of the upgrades is not the best, and I didn't have time to test all the edge cases so changes will happen to the upgrades and also the food! (I think ill be adding different foods in the future as well so stay tuned!)