How to Make Money in Prison: Fastest Ways to Earn (2026)

Short answer: On Complex Prison (hub.mc-complex.com), you make money by mining blocks in the best mine you have access to and selling them with /sell all or the Auto Sell enchant. Boost your sell price with Sunday's +30%, Money Boosters, Greed, Mining Spree and gang sell boosters, and earn tokens with Lucky Mining and Flash Mines. Spend tokens on your pickaxe and Gold Shards on your backpack so you mine and sell more per minute.

How selling works​

• /sell all: sells your inventory and the backpack in your offhand. In a mine it has a 10 second cooldown, which you can skip for 0.25 Mana.
• /shop: click the Emerald Block to sell your items.
• Auto Sell enchant: sells your inventory automatically, every 300 seconds at level 1 down to every 5 seconds at level 20. Its Backpack perk does the same for your backpack.
• Your mine matters: higher rank mines have more valuable blocks, so always mine in the best mine you can.

Every sell bonus​

All of these bonuses add together. The Sell Boost augment then multiplies the total.
Sell prices can never go higher than an item's buy price in /shop.

How to earn tokens​

Tokens buy every pickaxe enchant and perk, so more tokens means more money later. Tokens can't be traded or withdrawn.

• Lucky Mining: your main source. Each block has a 1.83% to 2.49% chance to give 3 to 12 tokens.
• Flash Mines: every hour on the hour. 1st place gets 4,000 to 5,000 tokens and a key, and the top 50% all get tokens.
• Skull Island: mobs drop tokens. Bank them before you die. See the Prison Skull Island Guide.
• Mining Spree: pick a Token boost instead of Sell.
• Envoys, milestones, pickaxe levels, chat games and /dailies: see below.

Free money from events and rewards​

• Envoys (every hour): crates drop at spawn with $500k to $7M, 1,000 to 4,000 tokens, Gold Shards, runes and keys. See /envoy.
• Money Pouches: from 6 tiers, $100k to $5M each. Get them from the Cellmate Heist perk and runes. Plus players can open them automatically with /autopouch.
• Personal milestones (/milestones): tokens, money and Gold Shards as you mine more blocks, like 1,000 tokens at 500 blocks and 256 Gold Shards at 1M blocks.
• Pickaxe levels: your pickaxe levels up as you mine (up to level 100) and gives money, tokens and keys every 5 levels.
• Chat Reaction games: every 5 minutes. Top 3 win up to $50,000 and 300 tokens.
• Vote Party: at 250 votes everyone online gets $50,000 and 2 Vote keys, with a chance at Prisoner and Escapist keys.
• /dailies: a daily reward every 18 hours. Higher ranks get more.
• Gang events: win Gang Top points for your gang. See the Gang Events and Flash Mines Guide.

Money making tips​

• Lucky Mining first: more tokens means faster upgrades for everything else. See the Prison Pickaxe Enchants Guide.
• Get Auto Sell and Auto Pickup: you sell without stopping to type commands.
• Upgrade your backpack: more space means fewer trips to sell. Backpacks are upgraded with Gold Shards. See the Gold Shards Guide.
• Save big sells for Sunday: +30% on top of all your other bonuses.
• Stack your boosters: drink a Money Booster during a Mining Spree on a Sunday.
• Join an active gang: gang sell boosters, missions and Flash Mines add up. See the Prison Gangs Guide.
• Be online for Flash Mines and Envoys: both run every hour.

Making Money FAQ​

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