Tokens are the power currency of Prison. Every block you break pays tokens as you mine, long before you sell anything. Tokens buy the upgrades that make you mine faster, and they survive a prestige.
How to earn tokens#
| Source | How much |
|---|---|
| Breaking blocks | The block's own value: 15 tokens for stone up to 110 for dark prismarine in your own mine (see Mine Blocks), and 8 to 297 tokens in the prestige mines |
| Token Finder enchant | Adds 1.5% of the block's base tokens for every level of the enchant |
| Token Rush enchant | Starts by chance on a break and lasts 1 second per enchant level. While it runs, each block pays double its base tokens |
| Treasure Finder enchant | A chance on a break to unearth a chest of tokens or money that grows with the enchant level |
| Mining Robot | Every block your robot breaks pays you tokens, raised by its Tokens upgrade |
| Token boosters and Adrenaline Surges | Multiply token income. See Boosters |
| Gang perks | Token Vein and War Chest raise the tokens every gang member earns. See Gang Perks |
| Prestige and rebirth | Every prestige multiplies token income by 1.10 and every rebirth by 1.5 |
| Quests | Money-earning, kill, event and meteor quests pay tokens, as do the biggest mining quests |
| Meteors | Players who help break a meteor in a prestige mine share 50,000 tokens in proportion to their damage |
| Pouches | A tokens pouch from a crate pays a random amount between its Low and High |
| Crates | Some crates you earn by playing, such as voting and chat-game rewards, can pay up to 250,000 tokens straight to your balance; see Prison Crates for odds |
| Other players | Tokens are Prison's trading currency, with gems: the auction house, trades, chest shops and coinflips all use them |
Token income from blocks is computed per break, so enchants that break many blocks at once (Explosive, Jackhammer, Nuke and others) pay tokens for every block they break. How the multipliers combine is on Income Multipliers.
Tokens are credited in small batches every 5 seconds, so your balance may update in short jumps while you mine. The Mining Summary in chat totals the tokens you earned each minute.
What tokens pay for#
| Spend | Where |
|---|---|
| Pickaxe enchant levels | The pickaxe enchant menu |
| Autosell interval and multiplier upgrades | The backpack menu |
| Plot size upgrades | Plot Size Upgrades |
| Mining robot upgrades | Mining Robot |
| The rebirth fee | Rebirth (1,000,000,000 tokens for the first rebirth, 1.55 times more for each rebirth after it) |
Taking levels off a pickaxe enchant refunds the tokens you paid for them, but the refund is stored in the pickaxe and can only buy enchant levels. See Removing Pickaxe Enchants.
Commands#
| Command | Aliases | What it does |
|---|---|---|
/tokens | Shows your token balance: "You have (amount)!" | |
/tokenstop [page] | /tokentop | Top token holders, 10 per page with Previous and Next buttons |
Resets#
Prestige does not touch your tokens. Rebirth sets them to zero, and the rebirth fee is paid before that, so you need the fee in hand when you rebirth. See Rebirth.
Tips#
- Spend tokens on the enchants that raise your income first (Fortune, Token Finder), then on area enchants. See The Pickaxe.
- Because prestige keeps tokens, there is never a reason to hold back tokens before a prestige.
- Rebirth replaces your pickaxe and wipes the tokens left after the fee, so enchants bought just before a rebirth are lost with it. Enchant prices are 1.55 times higher after each rebirth.