Changes: Mausoleum

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The Mausoleum is the alternative floor to the Depths and was added in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance.

Mausoleum is an occult-themed stage. Unique features of this stage include Teleporters and Grudges.

The door to the Mausoleum will appear after defeating the boss in Mines II or Error: The given stage ("the depths") does not exist. I. It costs two full hearts to enter. The damage taken ignores all forms of damage reduction, including The Wafer and invincibility.

The Lost can enter the door for free.
Mr. ME!, Dad's Key and Sharp Key can be used to open the door without taking damage.
- Cracked Orb's effect can open the door with less damage taken than needed, or with no damage with Dull Razor.

The door to Mausoleum II will not appear after defeating Mom.

If your goal is to defeat Mother, you must use the door to Mausoleum after defeating the boss in Mines II, avoiding the trapdoor to Error: The given stage ("the depths") does not exist. II. While one can access Mausoleum II from this floor by teleporting out of Mom's room and entering the strange door, no Bosses are present on the floor when accessing it this way. Instead, the Boss Room contains Dad's Note, which initiates the Ascent.

You can find both Mom and Mom's Heart in Mausoleum II, and they are both tougher and harder than their counterparts in Depths II. After Mausoleum Mom is defeated, a sealed red flesh door appears, requiring both Knife Piece 1 and Knife Piece 2 to be stabbed into the slot. The following room contains Mausoleum Mom's Heart, and once that is defeated, the entrance in Mausoleum Mom's room will lead the player to Corpse.

A Sharp Key can be used in place of the Knife.
Cracked Orb's effect can open the flesh door, allowing to keep the Knife.
All pickups are removed from the floor after defeating Mom's Heart.

If the floor is exited without killing Mausoleum version of Mom's Heart, the player will go to Womb II.

The alternative floor to Mausoleum is Gehenna. It is unlocked after all bosses from this floor have been defeated.

Monsters

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Degraded Bosses

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Bosses


The Heretic	The Siren	Mom	Mom's Heart

Trivia

In Antibirth, fully constructing The Knife required 3 Knife Pieces, with the third appearing in Mausoleum II. For Repentance, however, the third piece was removed, and the completed knife only requires the player to obtain two pieces from Downpour and Mines.
- Also in Antibirth, there was a mechanic where somewhere on the floor, there was a special Teleporter that usually required solving a puzzle, having flight, or using pickups to access. This Teleporter led to a second section of the floor, a cluster of rooms with enemies and a few random special rooms. Since this second area was on the same map as the main part of the floor, it could also be accessed by using the Red Key enough times to reach it, or by teleporting to it with other means. Both floors of the Mausoleum had this feature, and in Mausoleum II it was required to go there to solve a puzzle in order to unlock Knife Piece 3. However, like Knife Piece 3, this mechanic was also removed in Repentance.
The Visage was originally a Mausoleum boss in Antibirth, but it was changed in Repentance to appear on Mausoleum's alternate floor, Gehenna. It's appearance was also updated from purple to red to reflect this.
- This might have been because of Gehenna's "torture chamber" theming, which Visage complements more so than Mausoleum's occult theming.
Mausoleum is referred to on Isaac's Last Will as "Some Cursed Place".