×1N, 1N1E: Already solved when they were part of Level 5, so no new comments
1N1W: This looked like it was going to be really fiddly at first, but turned out to be quite simple.
1N2E: Tar-cutting while keeping a serpent alive, easy enough.
2E: This felt awesome, like I'm a magician and the long serpent is the trail of fire coming from my wand
1S2E: Strange room, I felt I just got lucky here. Could use more checkpoints.
1S1E: This was fun, and I didn't feel in danger of failure at any point.
1S: Getting two serpents to go north isn't much harder than getting one.
1W: Another fun room, although the timing was a bit tighter at points than I expected.
1S1W: Not too bad...
2S1W: ...but wow, this was extremely tough. I had to work out the path for the serpent a long way in advance, and realise that part of it was only possible with a woken eye. Still, it was immensely satisfying to finally pull it off.

×Entrance: Even this simple room took me a while to spot the trick
1W: Simple enough, good second room.
1S1W: Not too hard, good introduction to this series.
1S2W: This was weird. I didn't solve it on my first attempt; then when I came back, for a while I didn't spot the correct solution because it felt too obvious and I felt sure that if it was correct, I would have already tried it. Not the fault of the room, anyhow
1S3W: Here, by contrast, I got it fairly quickly because I was looking for something counterintuitive that would turn out to be right.
2W: Simple and fun queen-pushing.
3W: An okay timer room, with enough leeway that it didn't feel frustrating.
1N3W: Excellent room. The setup is so simple that it feels uncanny when you can't spot a solution; then it was one of those where I got it by thinking about it while I was away from the compputer.
1N2W: Timing queen spawns, not much to this one.
1N1W: This was extremely difficult to puzzle out. At first it looked unapproachable; then I realised I needed to spawn enough roaches to fill the top box, but couldn't see how to do it. In the end I looked in the editor to read the challenge scroll, and just knowing that the challenge was possible helped me on the right path (though I actually solved the non-challenge first; I haven't included a non-challenge demo as I solved it in the editor).

×1E: Somewhat fiddly, but the small area means there aren't many things available to try. Could use a checkpoint in the area with the orb.
1S1E: Simple introduction to multiple wraithwing aggression.
1S: This looked intimidating, but running round as fast as possible was enough to make it work.
1S1W: We discussed this a lot in chat. Looks very nasty at first, because brained wraithwings are so weird; but it turns out to be a pure linchpin room. It's a bit unfortunate that the serpent-shortening part behaves asymmetrically because of brain preferences, which haven't been taught in this hold; but I would say that's not a big flaw. Maybe add checkpoints at (10,5) and (31,13).
1W: Another nasty-looking one, but it wasn't too hard to find the correct killing spot.
1N1W: Efficient redirecting the wraithwing. Very fun room.
1N: A neat application of wraithwing aggression. I was worried this would be fiddly, but it all worked out.
1N1E: Got the linchpin quickly enough, and again, the implementation worked out without too much trouble.

×1E: This was fun. Took me a while to realise that the pit itself was the last square I needed to complete the blockade.
1N1E: Very easy and a bit tedious, you have to repeat the key manoeuvre a few times.
1N: Didn't have a great time here, especially going for the challenge. However, once I looked ahead and realised that the double SE move on the last step required leaving both the SW and NE trapdoors on Beethro's side intact, it was a lot easier to cut off possibilities and find the correct path.
1N1W: Simple double-cutting room.
1W, 2W: Very nice. The method wasn't too hard to grasp in 1W, but 2W needed a lot more thought. Manipulating both mimics at once was a bit fiddly, but satisfying to pull off; could have used another checkpoint below the line of doors.
1S1W: Nice concept, although getting to the end and realising I needed to leave the baby at 10,23 alive to reach the last two eyes was a bit unfair.
1S: Already mentioned this room in chat. The linchpins for each step of the solution are very nice, and it's fun to play around with the brain weirdness. But it could be a bit frustrating for a player who doesn't know the underlying concepts, which haven't been introduced in this hold. Also, this could definitely use checkpoints further to the sides.
1S1E: Rather trivial.

×Overall, this is probably my favourite level, if a little easier than some of the previous ones. I'm disappointed you didn't stick with spiders, at least for the TSS version.

1W: Good starter, just had to realise how to use the doors to advantage.
1N: Good use of the 2x2 obstacle trick. Each snake requires something slightly different, so the room doesn't become trivial once you know the trick.
1E: This looked really daunting, but turned out to be a lot of fun.
1S1E: And this was a really good secret variant, building on the previous solution but requiring a lot more thought. I wonder whether it's possible to drop the northernmost trapdoor last?
1N1E: I love this kind of room. This one wasn't too demanding, there's quite a bit of leeway.
1N2E: A simpler room where you just have to work out which way to go around to bring the roaches together.
2E: Fantastic. Especially the challenge solution, where it looks like you don't have nearly enough resources, and there are so many twists and turns on the path to working out how to make maximal use of them. Probably my favourite room so far.

×it totally is possible to drop the northernmost trapdoor last. I am glad you solve how to drop that one using my originally intended method of leaving one trapdoor undropped in the main corridor to gain vertical separation from the roach. There is another way to achieve this that lets you drop the northernmost trapdoor with the one in the corridor already dropped.

×2S: I assume my solution of sending a queen into the center chamber is the intended one.
1N1E: I didn't have to use the trapdoor bridge, though that doesn't really break the puzzle.
2N1E: My solution ignored the northern arrow trap and the red door next to it.

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Holds:
Nanfro Budkin's First Dungeon,
The Puzzle Catacombs
Graphical Mods:
Power Station (AE)

×L9:2S1E: My original solution a few versions ago required evading the serpent and keeping it alive, while clearing tar and dropping trapdoors. I now found that I can finish dropping the trapdoors and clearing a path before the serpent reaches me at all.

L15:2S1E: I managed to solve the room by flooding tar babies.

L15:1N1W: I solved by timing it so babies from the north would enter the western alcove. A cleaner solution would probably be to cause the babies to spawn and stay in place.

L16:1N1W: Tricky room. The trapdoors by the entrance seem to imply that you should leave the goblin behind, but that can't work. The next trick is to realize that you don't have to release the goblins in the tar during the first circuit.

L16:2S: The goblin can be trapped by the entrance, so the execution is very simple.

L16:2W: It can almost be solved without using the goblin to prevent tar growth. Once the trick is found, efficiency is no longer required.

L17:1S1W: The roach queen spawned twice. Nice simple room.

L17:2S1E: Nice room about herding a roach queen without helpful walls.

L17:2S: I killed the eastern roach queen first.

L17:1S3E: You don't need the extra spawn cycle. (To be fair, the solution is fairly fiddly, requiring manipulation of the wraithwings)

L17:1W: Looks scary, but wasn't that hard. There is plenty of room, so the floor dropping doesn't have to be precise. I dropped the floor around the SW chamber beforehand, so I didn't have to worry about timing, unless I wanted to prevent any roaches from spawning. Was the intended solution to spawn roaches in the center and lead them to the corners?

L17:1N1E: I let the tar grow onto another 2x2 square, so there was no time pressure.

L17:2E: I cleared the eastern trapdoors from east to west, so there was no time pressure or trick in sending the queen south, as the mimics could move south. I guess the intended solution is to use mimic swords and roach eggs to keep the queen on its path.

L18:1N: Found a reasonable solution, but it did not use the evil eye or the serpent behind it, so it was probably unintended.

L18:1S1W: The eye is to keep the wraithwing in place in the non-challenge solution?

L18:1S1E: The wraithwings didn't play any role in the solution.

L18:1N1E: The solution seems to depend on the parity of the wraithwings with the serpent path.

L18:1S: Timing is tight. The third wraithwing has a promising slot, but there is no time to get it there.

L18:1W I solved it with the solution for the secret room. (After proving it is impossible.) I couldn't find the regular solution. (I don't even know what the plan is.)

E:2S: I noticed immediately that I can release the northern queen, at the price of trapping the NE roach. It still took time to notice I can release the southern queen, which I doscovered accidentally.

E:2N1E: Seems to have extra parts.

E:1N1E: Is still a nice room.

E:2E: Solvable without taking the potion.

E:1E: Another "provably impossible" room.

E:1N: The number of tar growth cycles didn't leave many possibilities. Releasing the roach was slow and required timing. Is it possible to build an alcove which lets the roach escape with Beethro standing in place? Figuring out how to trapping the center eye was satisfying. I am not sure what the most satisfying way to kill the SW serpent is. Probably using the roach it was interfering with.

MTN:3N: I spent some time trying to get the queen to hold an awakened eye and goblin (and later wraithwing instead) in the corner. It almost worked. Were the orb north of a mimic, rq+ww could have worked.


V16 update: (Didn't replay the L13 room.)
L18:1N: A similar solution, except for the way the wraithwings enter the NE. Still don't use the eye and the serpent behind it.

M:6N: Completed all challenges.

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My Published Holds
Smitemasters' Selection - Finding the First Truth
Smitemasters' Selection - Treacle Stew
My YouTube Channel - Leylite

Holds I contributed levels to

Advanced Concepts
Advanced Concepts 2
Blind Race #1: On Your Marks
The Custom Element Contest Compilation
Doorless Hold Contest Compilation
DROD Flash Project Audition
DROD History Month
Elemental Showcase
Elemental Showcase 5.0
Good, Bad and Ugly Contest Compilation
King Dugan's Alternate Reality
Labyrinth of Mellenfral (unpublished contest compilation)
Lunchbreak Special
Lunchbreak Special 2 (unpublished contest compilation)
Take Five
The Mining Business
Twelve Days of Christmas
Way Forward

Holds in the Making

...MYSTERY PROJECT

Styles

Workshop - DROD 5.0
Voids - DROD 3.0
Cavern Redux - DROD 2.0
Laboratory - DROD AE
Snakepit - DROD AE
Twenty-Sixth Level - DROD AE

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My Published Holds
Smitemasters' Selection - Finding the First Truth
Smitemasters' Selection - Treacle Stew
My YouTube Channel - Leylite

Holds I contributed levels to

Advanced Concepts
Advanced Concepts 2
Blind Race #1: On Your Marks
The Custom Element Contest Compilation
Doorless Hold Contest Compilation
DROD Flash Project Audition
DROD History Month
Elemental Showcase
Elemental Showcase 5.0
Good, Bad and Ugly Contest Compilation
King Dugan's Alternate Reality
Labyrinth of Mellenfral (unpublished contest compilation)
Lunchbreak Special
Lunchbreak Special 2 (unpublished contest compilation)
Take Five
The Mining Business
Twelve Days of Christmas
Way Forward

Holds in the Making

...MYSTERY PROJECT

Styles

Workshop - DROD 5.0
Voids - DROD 3.0
Cavern Redux - DROD 2.0
Laboratory - DROD AE
Snakepit - DROD AE
Twenty-Sixth Level - DROD AE