Overview
Today, I’ll be showing you how to escape Shankton State Pen. (All the guides I checked were outdated) (P.S. IDK how to make images so don’t be confused!)
Preperation
So you’ve made it to Shankton State Pen, and I’m guessing you are already fairly good to have made it this far, and the other guides aren’t much help. You want to escape and move on, but this prison is fairly difficult. Now, we prepare for your fantastic breakout. You’ll want to get rid of all your starter items in your desk to free up space, but before you do that, let’s go do our job. When you enter the janitor’s closet, grap a mop and a tub of bleach. Store the bleach in your desk until further notice. After afternoon rollcall, go to the canteen and “Someone’s been smuggling spoons out the canteen”. Take some spoons and forks, because you’ll need these. Start chipping at the wall between your cell and the utility vent. Don’t bother setting up sheets, because guards will come and take them down. If a guard shows up on screen, stop chipping. Once you’ve got the wall down to 4%, stop. Then raid desks or ask inmates for magazines. If buying one, do it. Don’t put the magazine in your desk. Go to the library on your own time and raise your intellect to at least 50. Then, if an inmate is ever selling duct tape, even in a room with a detector, buy it and quickly combine it with your magazine.
Action
At lights out, when there are no guards nearby, grap a fork and start chipping at the 4% wall. Before you finish chipping, click on your poster and prepare to place it. Once the wall dies, quickly place the poster on the empty space. Save your progress and sleep ’til morning. On your own time, gather two pillows and a bed sheet. Make a dummy, and go smuggle more spoons. Don’t forget about forks too, as there are sometimes boulders under ground. The next night, place your bed dummy (in your bed, of course) and zip through your poster wall without any guards seeing you. Once you are in the utility vent, dig a hole directly next to the ladder.
Grueling Work
Once you’ve made a hole next to the ladder, repeat the process of smuggling spoons and forks aswell as timber, but no more than two timber at a time (if you get the woodshop job you can smuggle wood through the northern doors, if you’re willing to go around the prison). Hide timber in your toilet (your bed dummy should be in here when not in use). At night, you can move your timber into the utility vent to make timber braces. If ever there is an unconscious inmate with a trowel, don’t think “Dang, there’s a detector right there” (if there is one). just carry the inmate through the detector and then take the trowel. Trowels are extremely useful and you should never skip on this opportunity. When you’ve made a hole underground in the utility vent, dig fifteen (I know that’s a lot) blocks to the right (not including the block with the hole), placing braces when you need to, and then five to fifteen blocks south (just for safe measures).
Escape!
Now that you have a tunnel leading outside the prison, (which will never be found, seeing as the hole is hidden) you need to raid cells until you have a jar of ink. Then, on your own time, raise your intellect to a hundred. (I know this will take a while, but it’s worth it!) Now, next time a prisoner gets into a fight, (which is very common) strip one’s outfit when there are no guards nearby, and stash it in your desk. Now you just need to make sure you have at the very least a 3/5 digging tool and that you have a dirt. At lights out, craft infirmary overalls, (the outfit you stripped earlier + bleach) craft a guard outfit, (infirmary overalls + ink) place your bed dummy at 00:30 and go through your secret passage, replacing the poster after you enter. Enter your tunnel, go to the end, and dig up as fast as possible. As soon as you surface, use the dirt on the hole, which will seal it up. Then RUN!
Afterword
Thank you all for reading, this is my first ever guide, and I hope it helped / is helping you escape!
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