Farquand, I have moved the sliding board down one level. The stacks of netherchrome are in a chest on top of the stunted tree, just east of the stack of sand shaped like an elbow. If you decide that the pressure plates work, put them in a staggered arrangement AROUND the pit EXCEPT for the side fronting onto the ledge above the creeper run. Also: did you figure out what the timing is on their explosions? I think it's 2-2-1, but it may have changed after we adjusted the lightwells in the sheep pool above.
Also!! (very important) - the torches surrounding the emergency hut aren't keeping those spiders from climbing out of that crack above the "gold chute" so you may want to add more of them.
Who knew snow would make for such an exciting morning???? LOLOLOL
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