Ironhold Penitentiary Economy

At Ironhold Penitentiary, freedom has to be earned. We start every prisoner in Processing with nothing but the clothes on their back: chop wood in Ashgrove, buy a stone pick, and work your way through six cell blocks toward the Frostmere diamond mine. Each block has its own mine, shop, kitchen, and cells to claim. Save $100,000 in-game to pass through the Freedom Gate. Neither real money nor a friend's payment can shorten your sentence.

Our prison runs on player interactions. Guards are former prisoners who choose to return in uniform: they can search cells, seize contraband, cuff runners, and lock down the prison. Cooperate when you're caught, or refuse and risk a fight. Rebels smuggle goods back inside, while rumors of a black market hint at more beneath the prison.

There’s plenty to do between mine runs. Take a job as a cook, medic, laundry worker, or janitor. Complete daily work orders. Form a gang with a shared bank. Or settle a score in the Pit, where the yard can bet on the fight. Bounties give you another way to make a rival’s trouble everyone’s business.

Make it out and choose what comes next: wear the badge, join the Rebels, create a faction, or build a homestead in the free world. Freed players can claim safe land or risk raidable territory, and the choices you make beyond the walls can bring you back into the prison’s affairs. Ironhold is free to play, with a supporter store limited to cosmetics, no paid advantages and no buying your way out.