Thank you for your feedback ♥♥ I'm really sorry to hear about this bug. Unfortunately I don't have the source code any more (lost it..) and I won't be able to fix it. I hope you will be able to finish the game without it. Can't you take the pot from the cooking interface by clicking on it ?..
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Sad that you lost the sources, would have probably been a good resource for further games in the theme! Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be possible to remove the container from the cooking view. But I found my own way…
I had already started investigating the save files with a binary editor (WinMerge is nice) and at the end, I created three save files where the only thing I did in the game was to add one pot to the container view. Thus I found two locations where the number had grown by one in both cases, 79d6 and 7f48 (I seemed to had already 10 pots there at the end). Just set those both locations to zero and now it works again! Just tested creating new pots and a soup, I hope I didn’t break anything… will keep the original save files just in case.
BTW I’m a big fan of all of your games… well, all the adventures and visual novels. Found first the old Dread and got hooked. Your own worlds are great, I’ve liked those as much as these LotR, Trekkie etc. things you’ve done.