Andor's Trail

After spending a couple of hours in the Ratdom quest, I'm surprised that this forum has no search hits for the words

The reason may be, that it's not hexagonal.
In ratdom you only need 4 maps to run in a circle. If it were hexagonal you'd need 6 (if arranged like the atoms in a C₆-ring) or 3 (if arranged like tiles on the floor)

You are both right in principle
Each map is a combination of two tristars:
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They do make a nice pattern, regardless (just started drawing this):

That's the optics, nice sketch.
Technically I'd compare the maze to a chessboard where you move diagonally like the bishop.
The tiles are a little stretched, some exits are blocked and some lead to a level above/below, but it is always a diagonal movement.

Diagonal moves on a chessboard - another model that fits - you are all really creative

Once we had published a big release with rather much content - and some hours later on the same day somebody said: Nice release - when do we get the next release?

Then I had invented this maze that even overpowered players can't just rush through it.
Even drawing a map should be hard, so no simple 90°
but these 120° angles and ups and downs.
Also I didn't want to show a worldmap of the layers at all, but I was overruled here.

It's really nice now to see your different approaches to handle this maze

Thank you. I am enjoying exploring instead of grinding — it takes me back to the old Infocom adventures like Zork and Enchanter, with a text terminal and a pencil in one hand.

I just wish the rats would get out of my way — I don't want to kill them, but ...

I even had thought of an achievement if you get through without killing any rats - but then decided against

That would have been very difficult. Perhaps a small fine for each rat killed, like the sheep in another quest?

A fine? But isn't it just a dream?