Overview
Here’s your instructions for, what I think, is the most straightforward method for escaping your prison :)As far as I know, this escape method can only be applied to the Center Perks prsion, but that’s only because I haven’t had the opportunity to test it anywhere else, so it could still work, I suppose 🙂
1. Starting Out
I recommend you start a new game for this, but it’s up to you 🙂
Before doing anything, take note of a few things:
- Attend every rollcall, to make sure your cell isn’t one that’s being searched. This guide doesn’t make use of any kind of hidden storage and only your desk, so you need to protect your contraband.
- Keep your laundry job
- Before doing your job, make to sure to drop off any illegal items into your desk
1a. Get a weapon
First off, get a basic weapon. Take a comb out of yours or a cellmate’s desk, and use it against a wall. This will turn it into a COMB SHIV. Open up your profile and equip it.
That’ll give you some extra attack power for when you start whacking people later.
1b. The Day’s Schedule
Center Perk’s days go as follows:
- Morning Rollcall
- Breakfast
- Free Period
- Lunch
- Work Period
- Exercise Period
- Showers
- Evening Free Period
- Evening Rollcall
1c. Further Preparations
Now that you have your weapon, the next thing you’ll want to do is get your Strength up high, if not maximum. That’ll give you lots of HP, useful for when you’re beating up guards.
Take every opportunity you can to work out on the weights (Not the Treadmill). This includes:
- During your free periods
- Sneaking away from other things like breakfast (Just remember your heat will go up 10% if found by a guard)
Also once you’ve finished each workout, spend some time in the shower to get your energy back down.
2. Start Preparing Your Escape
Now that you have your Strength up, you should have somewhere between 40 and 50HP.
2a. A Small Amount Of Crafting
The only crafting you’ll need to do if following this guide is pretty straightfoward.
We’re going to make some Key Moulds, so secure at least two of the following items:
- TUBE OF TOOTHPASTE
- TUB OF TALCUM POWDER
Crafting these 2 items together will net you a WAD OF PUTTY, which is a crucial part of your escape plan.
You might need to get your INT up a little bit, and you can do that by using the computers just to the right of the laundry room.
2b. Creating The Keys – The Moulds
You’ll start whacking guards just now 🙂
Make sure one of the WADS OF PUTTY is in your inventory.
What you’ll want to do now is follow one of the guards around (Ideally during a free period) and attack him when there’s nobody around. Should another guard see you hitting anyone else, he’ll start hitting you too.
Your high Strength stat should give you enough HP to win the fight.
Once you’ve taken out a guard, open up his inventory to see which key he carries. What you’re looking for is the orange UTILITY KEY and the purple ENTRANCE KEY.
If the guard you took out didn’t carry either of these, remember his name so you know which guards you’ve already tried, and take out a different one once your health has regenerated. You can lie down in an infirmary bed to speed this up.
Keep taking out the different guards until you find either of these keys. Once you find a guard who carries the UTILITY KEY or the ENTRANCE KEY, put it into your inventory.
Craft the key and the putty together to create a mould of that key, and place the key back on the guard’s body. You’ll be stuck in solitary confinement otherwise and lose everything.
Repeat this until you have moulds of both the Utility and Entrance keys.
2c. Creating The Keys – Molten Plastic
The next thing you’ll want to do is obtain MOLTEN PLASTIC.
You can do this by finding a LIGHTER and a COMB, and crafting them together. Remeber you need to do this twice, so that you can create both finalised keys.
Once you have two Molten Plastic, craft each one with a key mould to obtain a PLASTIC UTILITY KEY and a PLASTIC ENTRANCE KEY.
Store them both in your desk, and make sure your cell isn’t being searched during a rollcall.
3. Get A Tool And A Change Of Clothes
The only tool you’ll need is a pair of FLIMSY CUTTERS, and I’ll explain how to go about finding them 🙂
3a. Obtaining The Cutters
So, so far you should have:
- PLASTIC ENTRANCE KEY
- PLASTIC UTILITY KEY
You’re getting closer to your escape 🙂
See those dark corridors that lead off from doors with ornage locks on them?
This is where you’re headed next. However, there are multiple corridors like these scattered across the complex and you need to find one that has a PRISONER’S STASH inside. This is just a silver, rectangular box. You’ll know it when you see it 🙂
Wait until the start of a new day, and head to the nearest orange locked door that has a stash inside. Use the Plastic Utility Key to get inside and open up the stash.
You can get multiple items from these, and you want a pair of FLIMSY CUTTERS
If you didn’t get them, don’t worry. Just restart the day, go back and try again 🙂
Once you have the cutters, you need to start upgrading them. To do this, you need two of the following:
- ROLL OF DUCT TAPE
- FILE
You can get both of these either by searching the desks of your cellmates, or by buying one from them. Either way, this may take a short while, so keep searching until you have two of each.
Once you’ve got two rolls of tape and two files, get your INT up if it’s low, and craft together the Flimsy Cutters, the Tape and the File to upgrade them to LIGHTWEIGHT CUTTERS
Then do the same again to fully upgrade them to STURDY CUTTERS
This tool will ultimately be your means of escape, so make sure you hang onto them.
3b. Get a Guard Outfit
You’re almost ready to escape 🙂
I know of three ways to get a Guard Outift:
- 1 – Buy one from a cellmate
- 2 – Take out a guard and steal it
- 3 – Take one from your laundry duty
2 and 3 are pretty risky. If you steal one from a taken down guard, stash it in your desk immediately so that you don’t lose it if you end up in Solitary Confinement.
If you steal one from your laundry job, exiting the room while it’s in your inventory will cause the detector to go off, and raise your heat ALLLL the way up, causing you to get immediately chased by any guard, or shot for 20HP by the lookouts, putting you in the infirmary and making you lose all your stuff, including the guard outfit.
Once you’ve secured one (however you went about it), there’s just one last thing you have to craft.
A BED DUMMMY
Take two pillows and a bed sheet by right-clicking on your cellmate’s beds and craft them together.
Easy peasy.
4. Performing The Escape
You won’t be spending much longer in prsion 🙂
You should have secured the following (At least):
- PLASTIC ENTRANCE KEY
- STURDY CUTTERS
- GUARD OUTFIT
- BED DUMMY
If you’ve got all of that, then you’re all good 🙂
4a. Wandering Around At Night
This is where you’ll need the outfit and the Bed Dummy.
Wait until evening rollcall, slip away before it’s over and head to your cell.
Put on the Guard Outfit, put the Bed Dummy in your bed and make sure the cutters and the entrance key are in your inventory.
Wait until Lights Out, and exit your cell before your cellmates get to bed, otherwise you’ll be locked in.
Head left and up to find your nearest Entrance Door, use the key and head upwards, ignoring the locked door on your right.
When you reach the fence, keep using the cutters (Should take about 5 uses) until the fence is no more.
Head on through, and go upwards and off the screen.
Congratulations. You just escaped prison 🙂