Ok, so it looks like the new direction I went has at least 1 new boss (haven't tried fighting it yet) and 1 new area and 1 new giant ball of light that
, so that's good. Although it's a little irritating how far everything is from my current lamp. I guess given the pattern so far, I'll get a closer lamp if I kill that boss.
Time for sleep, aka hours that I won't be playing this game.