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That means that no matter how far he was from the lake, the hopper should have been empty by the time he returned, despite him announcing that they should be full

The fact that they WERE full, then, becomes proof that someone refilled them - and add to that the fact that the glass was in the wrong slot.

This means that the grass trap was likely a double bluff - because that dirt would have become grass anyways, no matter where d3rlord3 was. It didn’t actually tell him anything - the hopper did

But we also know that the King wanted d3rlord3 to know that he was being followed - he intentionally replaced the glass in the wrong order, and -

This is a still from the original footage, in the massive tree field before the torchlit tunnel. An empty dirt block, surrounded by grass. The King basically planted the idea of the grass block trap in d3rlord3’s head

Actually, we see this kind of interplay is pretty present throughout the video - for one thing, the famous “At the crossroads, don’t turn left”. Because down the left tunnel, the King is waiting

But WHY did d3rlord3 turn left ? He had every chance not to - seven chances, actually, which is why he typed out his warning seven times.

Well, it’s because he was in a maze, and in a maze, the most logical method of finding a solution is to “keep going left”. D3lord3 was going left because he thought it would take him to the exit - and the King, correctly predicting that d3rlord3 would be smart enough to do so, laid a trap down the left tunnel

In fact, I’m pretty sure the whole poem thing was literally the King throwing out an absurdly difficult problem for d3rlord3 - who had already proven himself competent - to solve. He was 100% overjoyed with the fact that d3rlord3 not only solved it, but then chose not to use it to escape, and instead go for the smarter choice of simply mining out

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