So the no save thing really keeps me from trying again. twice now have i accidentally clicked the close button and lost progress.
Also the game seems breakable very easy. i didnt identify the saw bench before the monster attack and now it seems i cant, though it gives me handyman xp to keep trying to id it. and the millit or saw or what ever you get from the chickadee refuses to load into a crafteable thing. i click it with molten copper and i cant craft it, that happend twice.

Also in my last try about 10kg of copper got stuck at a temperature of like 70 ish? not sure how, it was recovered from a failed attempt into my inventory instead of the smelt. then when i added coal it would heat it like 70 something was 0

I think I was queueing too much stuff as at a certain point the dice roller wouldn't close and I could no longer receive any materials. Perhaps you could put in a max time for the window to be up and if the current roll hasn't completed it's closed out as if it had. The dice had finished rolling, the total had been summed and applied but because the panel never went away nothing continued to work.

I absolutely love the concept this game is going with, with the various exploration and crafting mechanics. Definitely excited for when this game gets a save, but until then, the "requires re-opening game" bugs are "game-breaking" bugs. Eagerly await seeing how it grows. Edit: Additionally, absolutely love the human voicework. That's a lot of love going into the game.

Seems you've already got bug reports for everything I've already noticed, though I would add the same bug with the table saw seems to appear with the logging camp if you explore it after returning to the smithy.

I'm really loving what I'm seeing now though.  The gathering and crafting combined with skill levels makes an engaging gameplay loop beyond the typical Cookie Clicker/adVenture capatilist idle game. I think where the game is really shining though is the writing and voice acting. Your writing is very evocative but also punchy, instead of dragging on like some narrative idle games (ngu idle/ idling to rule the gods) it just leaves me wanting to reach the next entry more. Your choice in voice actor definitely doesn't hurt though. Very soothing voice and a lot more confidence than I expect from these early projects. Was honestly expecting Liz to have a voice actress too I almost forgot this was such an early build of an independently built game because of the quality voice acting.

With a little fussing I got the game working under wine (I see you're using Unity, so a Linux native version would be appreciated although I understand that can be a pain).

As noted by others, there are a few places where I found the UI unintuitive:

• In the crucible I expected to click an ore to select it rather than drag, and as the little ingot icon next to each mold labeled something like "valid ores" (sorry, I exited before writing this) is gray it seemed like maybe my initial molds could only do undiscovered iron and not copper. Thanks to reading a comment above I eventually tried dragging and got it to work, but there are a few places like this where it would help if the UI were smoothed out a bit.
• After exploring the Lake I was told to hold Shift to Identify something. I have never been able to get this to work. I have tried both Left and Right shift while hovering and clicking on locations, tools, and materials and haven't seen any effect. I'm not sure if this is me misunderstanding the instructions or a consequence of how you're reading keyboard input interacting oddly with wine
• Sometimes (I think only if I queued both mining and casting operations), when the dice were rolled for casting it would give me mining results. As in "Casting copper nails, rolled 12, Deeper in the Cave you received crushed stone"
• When I tried to recover materials from the damaged forge to repair it, I didn't receive anything

It was fun to play around with despite the bugs and confusion; I look forward to seeing how the game develops.

Great start and I had a lot of fun!  The only issues I've discovered so far are the fact that there's no save feature, which I assume you'll add eventually, and that once I met Liz, the copper in my repaired furnace became unusable.  What I mean by this is the top "Lump of Copper" I had in there before repairing the furnace is greyed out and can't be selected at the casting station.

I quite like this game overall, as far as I managed to play, a good isekai venture into crafting and skill grinding.

Most notably, in upating to 1.2 to check if these problems were fixed, I can't figure out how to equip the pickaxe to the cave any more. Dragging it around to different spots or having it selected in the inventory both don't seem to do anything. 1.2 also seems to have added a silly bug where the loot tables in the cave menu are duplicated for every time you've opened the cave menu.

It took me a long time to figure out that I had to drag and drop items from the furnace menu to the crucible menu to craft with them, as discussed earlier, but my problem is that in that time my mining skill had levelled to the point where getting stone from the mines only happened on a dice roll of 0, so the later act of repairing the furnace to get access to all the stone that was in the furnace (due to using the add all materials button) would have taken unreasonably long, as would the 200 stone for repairing the floor (of which I believe I got only about 100 before my mining skill was too high to get much more).

Couldn't figure out how to mine. Found the pickaxe in the camp, but unclear how to use it in any meaningful way.

Im not sure what I'm supposed to do after getting the pickaxe. Clicking the mine tells me I need more strength and need a pickaxe, I can't use anything in the forge, and I can't clear the brush. My first idea was to go to the mine to level up my strength, but my pickaxe doesn't seem to count plus im too weak