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A thread on how to get started on Complex Prison.
Prison is a game-mode on the Complex Gaming Network where the main goal is to earn as much money and work your way through the ranks whilst becoming the richest prisoner on the server!
In this thread we will be explaining to you how to get started on your journey. Make sure to read this thread carefully if you are having questions or simply seeking information on how to get started.
Daily Rewards
Small bonuses given daily!
VotingSmall bonuses given daily!
A quick and easy way to get money is by voting. If you type /vote in the game this will have a link pop up in chat which will direct you to all 8 vanilla voting links when clicked on. Each of those sites will give out rewards to you when voting for the Complex Network. The rewards are: $1.000, 5 tokens and a vote crate key per voting link you vote on. The vote crate key is the reward that is the most interesting out of these, players will be interested in buying these vote keys for sufficient prices that will get you ranked up really easily! Make sure to look out for shop advertisements in public chat for places to sell them! Voting can be done once a day.
DailiesAnother way to get daily rewards is by typing /dailies in the chat which will teleport you to the postman in game. If you then right click the postman that will open up a menu where you can collect your daily rewards. If you want more rewards each day that is possible by buying a rank on the store. As a member you will only have the following reward which you can collect every 18 hours:
KitsIn case you have a rank on the prison game-mode you can do /kit to get daily kits which will get you more tokens, runes, gear and a better pickaxe!
Ranks can be purchased on our store: https://store.mc-complex.com/category/prison-ranks
If you don’t want to purchase a rank but you do want a better pickaxe (which is very crucial) you can also buy pickaxes of the auction house by doing /ah or lurking at the lucky crate where people that don’t need OP tools will be throwing them out. More on the auction house later in this thread.
Basics
Basic stuff you can do to make money.
MiningBasic stuff you can do to make money.
In prison there are a whopping total of 30 mines! They rank from A-Z and there are 4 prestige mines! By doing /mines you will be able to see which blocks are in each mine. If you take a good look you will notice that the higher the mine, the better the blocks will be. You can rankup by typing /rankup in chat while having the required amount of money. You can also use the command /rankupmax to rankup as much as you can with your current amount of money. Mining is obviously done with a pickaxe. So the better your pickaxe is the more money you will be making while mining. To upgrade your pickaxe you need to type /upgrade while holding the pickaxe. You will be using tokens to perform upgrades. You can also disable almost all upgrades when you don't need them. To avoid breaking your pickaxe make sure to upgrade 1 level of the Wise enchantment and 1 level on mending.
TokensAs mentioned earlier, tokens are a big part of progressing through the prison. They are mainly used to upgrade pickaxes and armor. You can also choose to sell your tokens, the average price of tokens may vary as the economy is entirely run by our playerbase. To be able to sell your tokens you will need to withdraw your tokens by doing /tokens withdraw (amount).
Here is an example of what tokens look like in game:
Tokens can be gained by mining (with the lucky mining enchant), opening crates, buying them from other players or killing mobs in skull island. For more information on skull island, please check out the section Skull Island found in this thread!
Auction HouseAnother vital part of the game is the Auction House, on the Auction House you can also buy/sell items that aren’t able to be sold or bought in the regular /shop like upgraded pickaxes, shards or tokens to upgrade your pickaxe with. You can use the Auction House to trade valuable items and make money that way. Access the Auction House by doing /ah.
Mid/Late game
Plots
Plots are also a good way to make money. As previously mentioned in this thread, people make shops on their plots to earn money and buy from people through chest shops while mining at the same time. To learn more on how to set up a chest shop yourself make sure to check out this link.
To get a plot type the following command whilst in spawn: /plot a if the GUI appears click on the emerald block to create your plot.
To return to your plot, simply run /plots and click on the plot you wish to teleport to.
If you are having issues with creating a plot, firstly double check if you are in spawn. If you are still experiencing not getting teleported to an available plot, wait for a reboot to occur and try again after the spawn zone has rebooted.
Hot Streaks
Hot streaks are enabled in /upgrades by right clicking on an upgrade and clicking the flint and steel. You can choose (3) hot streaks to be enabled at any given time.
When enabled, there is a small chance a hot streak will activate resulting in a boost to that specific upgrade.
When a hot streak becomes active. The hot streak will last until your Mana (can be seen on the right side of your screen) runs out. You start with a storage for 100 Mana but this can be upgraded by using +Max Mana Increase Vouchers. If you want to make your hotstreaks last longer try to use some Mana Refill Vouchers while a hot streak is active to keep your Mana up. Mana is gained by being online. Mana regenerates at the rate of 0.5 mana per minute (30 an hour) while you’re online and 0.16 mana per minute (10 per hour) when you’re offline so choose your hot streaks wisely.
Momentum
The Momentum upgrade can be seen as an alternative way of mining. Instead of going for blocks as fast as possible, you will need to be more precise when mining. You can access and activate the momentum upgrade by doing /upgrade while holding your pickaxe.
You will need to break the blocks by hitting the green particles that are showing on the blocks.
When you have built up momentum, you will gain a Fortune bonus, a Sell bonus and a Haste boost. The amount of bonus you get will depend on the level of your Momentum upgrade and on how high your streak is. Every few seconds, your streak will decrease, and you will lose a little bit of your Momentum streak. Be mindful that you keep up the pace because the higher the streak, the faster your momentum will decrease, but don’t go too fast though as one miss-click could result in you losing your streak.
Backpacks
A backpack acts as extra storage for blocks that you can sell as it fills up once your inventory is full. You can equip your backpack by placing it in your offhand (equip it in the inventory or press the 'F' key while holding it).
Every backpack starts with a block capacity of 500, and you can upgrade its block capacity by shifting and pressing your left click while you have it equipped. Golden Shards are required for upgrading your backpack, here is a list of the amount of shards needed for a certain level: Backpacks | Complex Gaming Wiki.
To obtain backpacks, you can trade them with other players for GC or in-game balance, you can get them from seasonal crates (i.e Celestial, Imperial, Cupid, etc), or you can get a standard backpack (a backpack without a custom enchant) in Skull Island via the Merchant.
To sell the contents of your backpack directly, you must have the /sell all command (Kingpin+ rank on our store: Prison Ranks). You can also upgrade Backpack Autosell on your pickaxe to sell the contents of your backpack.
Order Of Upgrading
The best way to upgrade your pickaxe to progress as quick as possible without having the /sell all feature (Member/Prisoner/Gangster) is in the following order of enchants:
Lucky Mining -> Fortune -> Auto Sell and/or Greed -> Scavenged Shards -> Wise.
Please note: You should max out each upgrade named above before going to the next one.
The best way to upgrade your pickaxe to progress as quick as possible with having the /sell all feature (Kingpin+) is in the following order of enchants:
Lucky Mining -> Efficiency 20 -> Fortune -> Greed -> Scavenged Shards -> Wise -> Auto Sell.
The Value Finder can be a good substitute for Scavenged Shards if you want to grind Value Pouches for your gang.
Please note: You should max out each upgrade named above before going to the next one.
The enchant Backpack Auto Sell can be upgraded anytime depending on when you get enough shards for the backpack (Can be bought at the Skull Merchant on Skull Island for 576 shards).
Time Traveler
Every Saturday, you are met with the opportunity to bid for two old seasonal items at /warp timetraveler. You have a chance to bid on these items for 24 hours and the bid amounts aren’t viewable for other players. You can raise your bid at any time during the 24 hours, however, you can’t lower nor cancel the bid. Your bid will be refunded if it’s not the winning one and the tiers of the seasonal items will be randomized. You can only use GC ( /gc ) to bid for the seasonal items. If an item has multiple quantities, one item will be given to each of the top bidders. Once you’ve won an item, you can claim it in the top right of the Time Traveler GUI.
Skull Island
Skull Island is a thrilling way to gain tokens, golden shards, experience, and tomes. It is a PVE / PVP-based island in which you can fight mobs, open treasure chests, participate in fun events, and trade your golden shards for loot at the merchant.To enter Skull Island, you will have to pay an entry fee of 5000 tokens at /warp skullisland.
Once you enter, you will be placed on a Phantom. To start your journey, press shift and you will glide down towards the ground.
Once you’re on the ground, you can start grinding mobs for golden shards, experience, and tokens!
To obtain golden shards, do /upgrade on your sword and focus on “Swindled Shards” (the gold nugget). To obtain experience, do /upgrade on your sword and focus on “Seafarer’s Bounty” (the experience bottle). After each mob kill, you will receive tokens. You will need to leave Skull Island via an exit crystal to keep the tokens and shards you earned from Skull Island.
You can trade the golden shards you obtain at the Skull Merchant in the middle of Skull Island in a tower.
Sea Biscuit - Upon use, gain Absorption IV, Strength IV, and Regeneration II for 30 seconds.
Price: 16 Golden Shards
Pirate’s Grog - Upon use, gain Slowness IV and Resistance IV for 30 seconds.
Price: 16 Golden Shards
Lodestone - Upon use, reveal the coordinates of the Treasure Chest on Skull Island.
Price: 32 Golden Shards
PvP Beacon - Place this beacon within Skull Island to enable PvP within an area around the beacon.
Price: 160 Golden Shards
Gold Coin - Increases the chance of receiving Gold Shards from the Swindled Shards upgrade by +25% for 1 hour.
Price: 160 Golden Shards
Silver Ticket - When redeemed in Skull Island, be instantly teleported back to spawn. Cannot be used while in combat.
Price: 256 Golden Shards
Standard Backpack - A normal backpack that you can use!
Price: 576 Golden Shards
Special Tag Voucher - A unique tag that you can redeem.
Price: 2048 Golden Shards
Hidden Treasure - Apply to an upgradeable item to increase the maximum level of an upgrade by 1. Maximum of 5 increases per upgrade.
Price: 2048 Golden Shards
Skull Island is mostly PvE, however, a PvP Beacon enables player combat for 15 minutes within a 50-block radius. This allows players to kill others for their contraband items (items that are marked contraband will drop on death such as golden shards).
NOTE: If you die to a player or a mob, you will lose all of your golden shards obtained and your tokens earned.
In Skull Island, different events occur randomly which include Last Man Standing, Boss Events, or even envoys! If you win these events, you will gain nice rewards such as golden shards, runes, etc.
You and your gang can claim a pond in Skull Island which boosts mob drops by +25%, and Experience Gain by +50%. You can run /ponds to see if a gang is controlling it and if it's claimable or not. It is located beneath the tower in the center of Skull Island.
There are Treasure Chests in Skull Island that spawn every hour in different locations. The Treasure Chest is openable 3 times with a Treasure Key before it disappears. A Treasure Key is obtainable by mining with the Confidential Contraband upgrade on your pickaxe. The rewards vary from Mana vouchers, shards, a temporarily upgraded pickaxe, and other desired rewards!
Enjoy your Skull Island journey!
Gangs
Gangs are a fun and exciting way of teaming up with your friends to compete for “gang top.” This gives you a chance to win captivating rewards monthly.
You can start your adventure by creating a gang /gang create <name>, you can invite your friends by doing /gang invite <username>, and you can join a gang by doing /gang join <gang name>. You can also use the GUI by running /gang.
Once in a gang, you can run /gang to view this menu:
Golden Block: You and your gang can share money by depositing or withdrawing in the gang bank. A command to directly open this bank is /gang bank.
Crystal: You can deposit your value crystals by clicking on the crystal or doing /gang value , where Ruby Crystals are worth 1 point, Topaz Crystals are worth 5 points, Moonlight Crystals are worth 10 points, Jade Crystals are worth 20 points, and Sapphire Crystals are worth 40 points. You can collect these value crystals from gang milestones, gang missions, Skull Island, or trading with other players.
Chest: You can store your valuables to share with your friends by clicking the chest or running /gang vault.
Crown: You can check the top 6 gangs with the most value by clicking the crown or running /gang top.
At the end of the month, the top 6 gangs with the most value will be rewarded with:
The value of your gang resets every month after the rewards are given.
Emerald: In gang upgrades, you have a plethora of different things you can upgrade from using tokens. This includes the member limit, the amount of slots in your gang vault, the gang bank limit, skull island mob resistance, and skull island mob strength. You can either click the emerald or run /gang upgrades.
Book: You can check your Gang Milestone progress by clicking the book or doing /gang milestones. When you complete a gang milestone, click the dye on the bottom right of the GUI (it will be green when you have rewards to claim). The rewards for completing a milestone will comprise of Value Crystal Pouches which you can redeem for Gang Value.
Compass: Daily gang missions are a fun way of working together with your gang to achieve a specific goal. After you complete the goal, you are rewarded with Value Crystals. You can click the compass to see your gang mission or you can run /gang missions.
Paper: You can check gang logs to see who claimed a milestone, who deposited value crystals, who put stuff / took items from the gang vault, who deposited and withdrew money from the gang bank, who contributed to specific upgrades, who changed permissions, who invited/kicked members, and the admin logs. You can either click the paper or run /gang logs.
Command Block: In gang settings, you can change your gang name, change your gang color, change the secondary color, and turn friendly fire off or on.
Barrier Block: In gang permissions, you can change access to certain functions (i.e. withdrawing from the bank) for different ranks including visitor, recruit, member, moderator, and admin.
Player Head: In the member section, you can manage the members of your gang which includes changing their rank, setting one’s title, or kicking them out. The initial cap of members in a gang is 3, however, you can upgrade the member limit up to 5 in gang upgrades.
TNT: You can disband your gang by clicking the TNT or running /gang disband.
We hope this can get you started on your journey to escape prison! If you have any further questions make sure to ask the staff members that are online at the time, or the helpful community as they will be able to answer most of your questions!
Be sure to check out our other guides down below!
Chest Shop Guide
[Skyblock] Pharaoh's Tomb Guide
Prison Guide
Factions Guide
Survival Guide
[Global] Runes Guide
[Global] Tag Guide
Kind regards,
The entire Complex Staff Team!
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