Save yourself my troubles and go with this suggestion. I’m using this with a few different OpenVPN service providers and it works wonderfully.
Initially I had tried gluetun + transmission with gluetun acting as a socks5 proxy for the transmission instance but the shadowsocks impl it uses won’t support socks5 from any of the torrent clients I tested with.
I think your z-offset might be too low. Looks the the nozzle might be too close to the bed for the first layer. It should “place” the first layer down, not “squish” it.