"Currently it looks like the only way to get across to the rest of the catacombs is to go past the metal dragons."
Just run south then east from where the teleport spot is if you want to avoid the metal dragons.
Regardless, I don't think this is too necessary and there are more important things to work on.
not to discredit the quality or time required to code.. but i cant imagine this taking more than like 10-15 minutes. find the coordinates where to tele and change them. Or is more to it than that.