Thank you for your kind words!
Regarding the "grindiness" you are right. I will upload an update with balancing adjustments once the rating is over. I had more ideas about crafting and some more depth for the gameplay but I had to reduce the scope for this jam in order upload a fully functional game.
Did you play the browser version or the Windows version? I noticed bad performance in the browser as well but it runs smooth on Windows (I have a high end gamer PC). I havent done any performance optimization yet. With the post jam update I will add some dynamic loading/deloading of map parts.
Thanks for playing the game to the end!