right now, the mortar is a tool you need to hold in hand to make some elixirs and whatnot; this is a little annoying to manage as it occupies both slots of your inventory, meaning that you can't hold tsacks or otherwise (though the current selection messiness might make this undesireable anyways).
Make it another object you place on the table instead, so that I don't need to fiddle with my inventory constantly to make things.