Golgotha
Shrouded in the rotting jungle are the mouths of the rust-caves of Golgotha, chrome's graveyard.
Golgotha is an early game dungeon that the player is sent to as part of the first quest for the Barathrumites, "More Than a Willing Spirit." The structure only occupies the center zone of the parasangAn area made of 3x3 screens, which is represented as one tile on the overworld map.; outskirts both above and underground generate as normal 
jungle and subterranean jungle zones, respectively.
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Floors
Surface
Strata: 0
The outside of Golgotha appears as a jungle level with one sealed central building and four randomly placed outbuildings, each containing a row of three 
slimy shafts. The central building contains a 
deep shaft that leads directly to the bottom of Golgotha, and a 
control switch that will unlock the door from inside.
When ready, the player can jump down one of the slimy shafts to the first floor.
One advanced strategy is to 
phase, 
burrow, 
teleport, or 
mine your way through the 
tarnished chrome directly into the central building, and jump straight down the elevator shaft- but your character cannot survive the fall without special preparation.
Trash chutes
slimy shafts and down to the next level.Strata: 1, 2, 3, 4
The next four floors are all randomly generated in the same way: the player drops in from a shaft in front of a set of 
conveyor drive units driving -conveyor belts. The player must then choose how to make their way to the next set of slimy shafts leading down: whether by standing and fighting to clear an area, or potentially by riding the conveyor belt as quickly as possible to the next level while dodging hazards. Whatever strategy is used, the player may have to confront:
green jells, 
brown jells, 
black jells, 
sewage eels, 
Glow-wight cultists of Agolgut, 
giant beetles, 
beetlebums, 
spark ticks, 
electric snails, 
agolmaggots, 
spitting slugs, 
chute crabs, 
eyeless crabs, 
rustaceans, 
voiders, 
quillipedes, 
girshlings, 
agolflies, 
agolzvuvs, 
jilted lovers, 
dreadroots, 
steaming vents, 
sparking vents, 
scratched vents, and 
fuming vents.
The Cloaca
Stratum: 5
In contrast to the quickly moving conveyor belts and hazards of the trash chutes, the Cloaca is a relatively static area full of 
trash and sewage. The player will encounter one rare 
chest, a dysfunctional waydroid, and the unique creature 
Slog of the Cloaca. Whether Slog is friend or foe depends on the players reputation with Mollusks. Mutants with a good faction relationship can learn the Cloaca Surprise through preforming the water ritual with Slog, using one dram of 
slime. Alternatively, Slog can be killed, and their corpse butchered to obtain 
Slog's annunclus.
Preparation
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Players should come prepared to run the entire dungeon, since floors in Golgotha cannot be ascended by normal means once the run has begun.
Strategies for preparing for Golgotha's hazards may include:
honey or 
yuckwheat stem for disease prevention- A source of healing, such as
witchwood bark or 
salve injectors - Explosives, a
flamethrower, or other means to clear pools of sewage - Neutral reputation with the Mollusks faction
- Precognition via the
Precognition mutation or 
sphynx salt injectors - A recoiler
- Rustproof equipment, such as
eyeless crab shells, 
salthopper mandibles and 
puma chitin vests or Lacquered equipment
Trivia
- Before game version 202.78, the strata below the Cloaca were named: Fetid pools (strata 6-8), Deep Cells (strata 9-14), and Oubliette (stratum 15). However, these deeper levels were procedurally generated, using the generic 'ruins' tiles and layout, and were populated principally by creatures found elsewhere in Golgotha, as well as the tier-appropriate spawns of a ruins zone for that z-level. They were not connected to the levels above with stairs, and as such, were inaccessible without a
spiral borer or similar means of digging downwards. These strata have since been replaced with generic subterranean caves.