Overview
A master list of achievements in the current version of The Escapists, and how to obtain them. In the order of how many people have gained them.
Grey Matters
Reach 100 intellect. This is easy: just go on any map and spend all of your free time reading or searching the interwebz.
I Present To You
Give away 50 items. This one’s easy, just find 50 items, right click on an inmate, go to the tab with a present on it, click on the item you wish to give from your inventory, and press “give”.
Punch Drunk
Knocked out 50 inmates. Best and fastest way to do this: go to Center Perks, train your strength/speed to more than 80 each, get a plated outfit and whip/nunchucks, and beat up all the inmates in the prison. Do this 5 times and you got your cheevo.
Favour Fave
Complete 100 favours. To do this, go on any prison and do 100 favors, signaled by an exclamation mark over the favor-giver’s head. I suggest you do this on Center Perks, since many favors are beatdowns and the inmates have the lowest stats of the prisons.
Master Craftsman
Fill 13 or more pages in your crafting journal. Again I suggest you do this on Center Perks, as the inmates like you from the start and sell for relatively cheap. Buy and find as many crafting notes as you can. The ways to get crafting notes are: Buying, Desks, and finding it off a prisoner’s body.
Let’s Get Physical
Get your Strength and Speed stat to 100. Do this on San Pancho, since the exercise is easy and gives less fatigue. The Punching Bag gives 3 fatigue per hit and requires 3 hits to raise your strength by one. You use the punching bag by holding Q until the meter is filled up to a certain point and letting go. Skipping is a slower version of the speed bag on Shankton State Pen.
Disrespect My Authority
Knocked out 50 guards. You’ve probably realized by now that Center Perks is the patron saint of achievements, immortalized in its absolute glory as a criminal containment facility. Back on track. To do this achievement, get STR and SPD to 80 or more (I recommend as close to 100 as you can get) and a plated outfit and whip/nunchucks. Start ripping guards a new one, you should have to KO all the guards on the map 10 times if on Center Perks, Stalag Flucht, or Jungle Compound. Be warned of lockdowns.
Day One
Escape a prison on the first day. Now this one’s a doozy. Go to Center Perks, and at the start of the day, immediately search the desks and make a bed dummy and a sheet rope. You will have to get two files or a cutter, or if you’re lucky the desks will have three dental floss to make a cutting floss. There should also be 4 forks in the kitchen, which is very likely. Start chipping at the wall of the shower or computer room, which leads to a maintenance hall with a ladder. Leave it at 4%, one more chip. When you do the laundry job, wear a guard outfit out of the detector. You will get a lot of heat from being seen by the sniper, but you can take off the outfit immediately. Once you have your cutting tool, wait until evening rollcall. Place the bed dummy on your bed, get the fork you will have left over after chipping, get the cutter, and get the guard outfit. At 22:40, go to the wall you have chipped and chip it fully. Go into the maintenance hall, replace the block, and put on your guard outift. At 23:00, climb up the ladders as fast as you can, drop off the roof with your rope, and start cutting the nearest fence. Hopefully you have a flimsy cutter or cutting floss, since you have less than 1 in-game hour after the rollcall ends. If the time reaches 24:00 before you have escaped, it is day 2. Restart and try again.
Thug Life
Recruit 5+ buddies. This one is easiest on Saint Perks, my new name for Center Perks, because some of the inmates are usually at 80+ OPN right off the bat. Fill up your hotbar with comb shivs and start giving them away. This should help you get the achievement. If you can’t do it, restart.
Strip Searched
Strip 50 outfits from floored opponents. This is easy, just do Punch Drunk and Disrespect My Authority while taking off the clothes of your opponents.
Butter Fingers
Dropped the soap in the showers. You can get this done before rollcall ends, just take the soap out of your desk, go to the shower, and drop the soap. Thankfully you can’t be raped in The Escapists.
The Monopoly Guy
Have $1000 or over on hand. Again, Saint Perks. Get 70 INT, get the metalshop job, and spend 20-something days doing it. If you want to speed it up, do favors for people.
Digging It!
Cleared a total of 50 tiles. Go into the vents, chip walls, dig tunnels, cut fences, whatever, just get 50 tiles out of the way. Easy if you have a Multitool or Sturdy Cutters and lots of patience.
Clean Getaway
Escape a prison with 0% average heat. Another doozy. Do the same thing as Day One, except with more patience, and you don’t have to get cutters, since this isn’t Day One. Don’t wear the guard outfit out of the laundry room since ANY heat kills the achievement. Leave evening rollcall undetected, and go to the bottom of the prison, since guards don’t patrol there. Tips: NEVER leave ANY period on the schedule unless you are absolutely sure you will not be seen by guards. ALWAYS get to periods on time. Stop chipping if you see a guard near: if a guard catches you chipping, the achievement is OVER.
Way of the Dragon
Initiate a prison takeover using nunchuks. Simple, get nunchuks and plated outfit, get your strength and speed to 80+, get 5 duct tape/rope, take over the prison.
The Great Escapist!
Successfully escaped from all six prisons. Pretty self-explanatory to me. Unfortunately I don’t have enough time to write a guide to escaping all six prisons; look somewhere else, like, I don’t know, Google?
Jobsworth
Now we’re getting into the achievements that almost nobody has completed. Jobsworth is simple: make a list of all 10 jobs in The Escapists, and do them in the prisons that have them. To get a job, follow these simple steps: Get your intelligence to the required amount for the job, and distract the current employee. Knock them out, lead them in a chase for the whole work period, have them hit you and get mobbed by the guards, whatever as long as they’re distracted for the whole period. Tip: If you take off an inmate’s outfit, even if you leave it right next to them, they will go to their cell and get new clothes.
The Wet Bandit
Flood 30 toilets. It’s easy, but it takes a pretty long time. Just flush things down toilets. I think dirt and filling toilets up to capacity increase the chance of a blockage, but I don’t know: it may be just chance that I get these things so often.
Never Be Alone Again
Attended 50 prison visits. This one is also an easy but time consuming achievement, as you will have to sit through the whole visit, which can take a long time, and sometimes the visitors don’t even appear.
Tanked Up
Complete the construction of the Tank. Alright, let’s get to the Escape Team Achievements, which you will have to pay somewhere around 5 dollars to get. To construct the Tank, you will have to have 3 duct tape and an effective chipping tool or a staff key. As the beginning note says, you will need to find a few desks around the map that are all accessible with a staff key, at least concerning this achievement. One has an infinite supply of Metal Tubes, Corrugated Iron and Metal Cones, which you will need to complete Tanked Up. Combine two Metal Tubes with duct tape, two Corrugated Iron with duct tape, and combine the results of both crafts with Duct Tape. You will have a makeshift turret, which you need to use on the tank in the bottom right corner of the map. Achievement completed.
Cage’s Buddy
Gift the Sovereign Ring to Cage. Find a gold ring in a desk, called the Sovereign Ring, and give it to the black, muscly guy who is named Cage if you don’t change the names.
Soldiers Of Fortune
The Escape Team have escaped. Complete Tanked Up, and then bust into these areas: the sealed off room with the telegraphs and the box, the guard area, and the room with the green lock that there is no job for. The chests in these areas hold the items Potassium, Charcoal, and Fertilizer respectively. Craft the items together to get the Explosive Mix. Get a Mixing Bowl, which is an item that all guards have, and craft it with the mix to get an Explosive Compund, which you will then craft with a Metal Cone to get an Explosive Round. Use the round on the tank, and then combine a lighter and a Taper, another item guards have, to get a Makeshift Fuse. Use it on the loaded tank and run out of the prison after it blows up the concrete.
Ladies’ Man
Gift the Aftershave to Andy. Like the Sovereign Ring, the Aftershave can be found in desks. Give it to the blond guy who is originally named Andy, and you will get the achievement.
The Mad Man
Gift the Trash Bag to Sean. Same “find an item in desks, give it to a specific person” quest. Give the Trash Bag to Sean, the guy with the blue cap and messy hair. He even hints at this achievement by saying “Gimme a trash bag!”
Loved Up
All members of the Escape Team love you upon escaping. This is the least-obtained achievement, probably due to the fact that not very many people buy Escape Team, along with the intense frustration it gives when you run out the map and one of the inmates’ opinion drops down to 99. The gist of it is, escape with all 3 other inmates having 100 opinion of you. I suggest blowing up the reinforced concrete and then working on this achievement, as the barrier to the exit will not be repaired overnight. When you want to escape, give 2 comb/toothbrush shivs to every inmate, even if they are at 100, and sprint for the exit. This is possibly the most frustrating achievement, second to Never Be Alone Again, due to the sheer agony of escaping when you forgot to give that extra comb shiv to Cage and having to restart the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ map just to get an achievement.