For day 1099 of coding, I applied the same code to the trees to see if it had the same effect as it did on the player. I have also discovered other issues related to the depth calculation

For day 1105 of coding, I made sure to apply the new depth sorting code to the item pick-ups

For day 1102 of coding, I've learned a bit on how depth is calculated during the game's running time. I still haven't figured out how the depth umps drastically while in the forest maze

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For day 1104 of coding; with the new depth sorting in place, I have adjusted the depth of the layers to make room for the sorting range

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For day 1100 of coding, I have found that there is something setting the depth in the positives after the depth calculation. I have yet to locate where that is happening

For day 1106 of coding, I've further adjusted the shadow's speed and transparency

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For day 1101 of coding; I ran the game through GMS2's debugger and found the area in the code where the extra depth change happened, but it's not immediately clear what caused the change