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Getting Started

The first hour: tutorial, mine, votes, and the one upgrade to rush.

Prison is a gamemode where mining is your primary focus. You upgrade your pickaxe, get new armor, compete against other gangs, and fight bosses to acquire over 20 new and rare items that will catapult you to the top.

When you first join, run /tutorial. It covers the very basics and gives you some free drills.

Quick start

If you only read one section, read this one. The whole early game:

  1. /tutorial. Covers the very basics and gives you free drills.
  2. Check out the spawn NPCs. Get an idea of what kind of systems are available.
  3. /mine (or /mine teleport) to reach your mine.
  4. /vote. Free keys for voting across the different websites.
  5. Mine emerald blocks. For your first blocks these give much more rank XP, which boosts you through the first few minutes much faster.
  6. Max out Luck of the Mine. This is the most important one. It is how you get bombs and drills, and they are essential to early-game progression.
  7. Check /milestones often. Early milestones give huge amounts of keys, as well as pets and bosses.
  8. Save 2,000 rubies and unlock /incubator to start building your first boss.

How to start

After exploring the spawn NPCs, type /mine or /mine teleport. The best free boost when starting out is /vote, which gets you free keys from all of the websites available.

As you start mining, focus the emerald blocks. They are worth substantially more XP when starting out and will help you fly through the first few ranks.

As you rank up, max out Luck of the Mine as soon as possible. This is how you acquire bombs and drills, which are an essential part of early game progression.

The other thing to keep an eye on is /milestones. Early milestones give you massive amounts of keys, pet eggs, bosses, and more.

Commands worth knowing

/mine           Mine menu
/gang           Gang menu
/afk            View the AFK enchants and teleport to the AFK zone
/warp afk       Same destination as /afk
/quarry         Upgrade the quarry to passively gain currencies
/skills         Use skill points to unlock unique boosts
/incubator      Incubate new bosses
/milestones     View the rank, block, and prestige milestone rewards
/pets           Store your extra pets and put pets in active slots
/armor          Upgrade and merge your armor, and buy armor boxes
/salvage        Salvage extra pets, drills, bombs, and armor
/vote           A list of all the voting sites, which give key rewards
/tutorial       Basic tutorial that gives rewards
/rareitems      View the full list of rare items
/prestige       All prestige information
/prestigemax    Instantly spend as many currencies as you can toward enchants
/retrieveboss   Retrieve a boss after it has started

/prestigemax is only available after your first prestige. /retrieveboss is the one to remember if you accidentally start a boss with too much HP — a retrieved boss comes back at full HP.

That list is Prison's own. The network-wide commands — homes, warps, teleport requests, trading and messaging — are in Commands, and they work here too.