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I assume you've made it all the way to where you need to pull the lever. There is a book in that shrine in a somewhat obvious location that will help you.

The first item is in the mine adjacent to the place that I believe is the lime wool. The second is in the nursery-type place where the brown wool is located. Both aren't too hard to find.

The first void death was to a creeper knocking me off in the laboratory area, the second death was due to me placing a torch on gravel in the mines (I was so mad that time, since I thought that I had finally cleared the area, only to fall to my demise. Thankfully, I was smart enough to not mine the diamonds -- I thought they were traps), and the third death was in the penultimate area due to blindness. I didn't even realize that there was void under the water. I was furious at first since I thought that there was command block trickery at work to teleport me until I looked up and saw that I was, in fact, an idiot.

1. Food. I feel like the food was very well balanced; there was no lack of it at all and I found myself not having to farm that much. I didn't find much higher quality food in the early game (and by late game I already had a good source of food) which is a good balance.
2. Scaling. Not much to say about this, I thought it was great aside from some nitpicks I have later. I never felt like an area was too easy or hard.
3. TNT. I love you for not using the kind that blows up when you punch it.
4. Custom Items. For the most part, these were cool and not too overpowered, although I feel like there were some issues (also the valkerie's feather or whatever it's called was the best for traveling between intersections and such).
5. Aesthetics. I've played through a lot of CTMs, most not all of the way. Yours has really fantastic detail and aesthetics, especially for such small areas. You certainly made it feel like I wasn't playing in a 24 block cube.

1. I feel like some of your custom armors did not work as they should. The burial shroud, for example, only gave half a heart when I equipped all of the armor, yet its stats seemed to suggest that it would give two hearts with all the armor. I noticed some items had multiplicative stats (e.g. + .5 speed or +30% attack), while others had additive (e.g. +4 health). I'm not sure if that was intended or not, and I have no idea how Minecraft handles it, I just figured I'd point it out.
2. There were two cases where I felt the spawners you put in were potentially overpowered. The first case, though debatable, is the zombie spawners in the very first area. Though the mobs they spawned were well balanced for a starting area, I was able to easily abuse them once I got to intersection one. I build a very rudimentary grinder and from then on I had free and quick exp. I know that spawners can always be used as grinders, but the zombies that spawned from these were killed easily by hand (it took me like two or three hits at most) and also provided blocks to be used early on (not blast resistant ones, but blocks nonetheless). I feel like grinders should at least require the player to devise some clever way of knocking down the health of mobs first, which I would say usually requires materials they don't have yet. Again, this case is debatable. The second case is the iron golem spawner. Perhaps you put it there so that players could get iron to begin with, considering that area is where I got my first iron, but I noticed that you were giving out iron tools and armor in chests later, so I figured that you may not have intended to provide players with an infinite supply of iron at that stage. Either way, with that spawner I was able to easily get full iron gear, which made the next few areas I took on much easier. In case you care, here are the two grinders I constructed.
3. I'm sorry I can only describe one specific area as of right now, but I feel like some areas could be "cheesed" with potions pretty easily. Given how accessible they became at the third intersection, I stocked myself with tons of potions, and so I found the end boss rather easy because of it. I just drank a strength II, regen I, and fire resist and put the handy health potions you gave out on my hotbar and ran and destroyed the spawners and then the mobs. I feel like this sort of applies to any non-void area; I found myself doing it a lot. There were some instances where the sheer volume of mobs prevented me from doing so, and so I would just go and conquer another area, come back, and quick rush in and out. Another instance I just remembered would be in the first nether area, where I was able to easily kill all of the blazes because they're totally neutered once you chug fire resist.
4. Your teleporter to the third intersection is not surrounded by bedrock in the monument area. If I wanted to speedrun your map, I would probably skip the first area entirely, get some wood and block away the first spider spawner, and then mine through the walls and run all the way to the monument area. Then I'd break the wall and take the teleporter, go to your nexus, and obtain infinite food, weapons, and torches. After that, the first intersection would be a lot easier and would go by a lot faster.
5. That said, you should probably nerf the "more magic" button. I notice that you hand out arrows and torches (and food) later on in the map, so why give them out for free infinitely beforehand? Maybe add a 1 to 5 minute cooldown using items? It's not too big of a deal, since the items given out are very basic, but still.
6. Lots of areas in your map can be made a lot easier by just a little bit of mining. It's rather easy to discover intended shortcuts (sometimes walls only one block thick are blocking your path). I believe you suggest against tunneling, and I don't know how you might deal with it, especially since there's such a small area. I'm not sure what you could do about it, other than use commmand blocks.