It was nice just going around and collecting things, even if, like you said, I wasn't able to find any working crafting recipe. (~^w^)~
As you said, the procedural generation seems to work pretty well (at least the 3 times I tried), and you did put this prototype out for us to test. I though the sprites for the monster/ingredient/alchemist were pretty neat too.
Thank you for posting it. (And yup, time management is usually a biiig problem for me too (^^") )