Thank you for the comprehensive reply! It's very useful.
> Presentation as a whole is lacking, but I'm sure you know it
Yeah, I focused first on making the game work. If you add to that I am not the best artist or a designer... unfortunately the game looks a bit rough.
> Everytime I collected something with a card on the use/craft slots, they would disappear. I had to put another card for them to reappear for some reason.
That's a weird bug. If you collect cards, they should appear in your stash (the lower left portion of the screen)
> Some mechanical nitpicks: the way hunger would just pick a food item and rearrange your inventory during crafting
I need to change how the inventory system works. I plan on adding a sorting to the system, as well as allow the player to place cards manually where they want to. Unfortunately, we can't update our games during the voting period.