I see potential here. Two things I would hope for, that the pc version would stay running when it is not the active window, and that previously discovered items could be placed in the output slot to see what their ingredients are.
Hey there, thanks for playing!
The game pausing itself while on the background was a bug I thought I had fixed earlier, but someone notified me of the issue just after publishing the game... It will be fixed in the update that will come out in a few days!
The placing of already discovered items their recipe is already in the game! Right clicking should do exactly this! Seeing that I have a mobile version in mind too, I might change this in the future to support getting dragged into the output slot. Thanks for the idea!