If you have come across ROB RUN whether with your own will or otherwise, you probably realized it’s more than a punishment. It’s where you start, where you pick your server, and where your weekly progress turns into jail time. The years you see there aren’t a real-time wait either.
In This Guide:
How to Escape Prison in ROB RUN
Don’t worry; you don’t sit through a sentence to get out. The years on screen are jail-time progress, not minutes you wait.
The game sends you to the tattoo artist first, and you can grab your first tattoo there. After that, look for the Escape prompt. It sits on the toilet in a cell. Interact with it and the State Selection screen opens. Pick your state and confirm.
How to Go to Prison and Surrender to the Feds
If you’re already out in the world and want back in, there are two ways. The first option is to open the global map, select Prison, and choose Surrender to Feds. There is another way which is much shorter: press Esc, go to Settings, then Other, then Surrender to Feds.
Keep in mind that your belongings in the current state will be confiscated; you lose them and that you’ll get a prison sentence. Read it. A court ruling screen shows up right after.
How Jail Time and Prison Sentences Work
The richer you are when the wipe hits, the longer your sentence. Every seven days there’s a Federal Raid. Your plots, bases, weapons and cash get wiped and turned into jail time and Authority. Your cosmetics, name, tutorial progress, settings and accumulated jail time carry over.
A sentence starts at 1 year and adds a year for every $500,000, with caps at 40 years per state and 10,000 overall. Nobody has verified that. Also don’t expect to gain a free year by surrendering with nothing.
ROB RUN Prison Tattoos and Authority Rewards
The tattoo artist opens an Authority menu with a progress track of rewards. In the parts I could see, the track starts at 1 with the Chance tattoo, then 5 for Fearlessness, then 15, 40, 60, 80 and 100. The last reward is at 800, marked 23 of 23. It’s a Legendary face mask called Silence.
Tattoos can be hidden, so a player’s look doesn’t tell you their Authority.
What Happens to Your Items When You Go to Prison?
You might come to the conclusion that surrendering to the Feds is a free teleport but unfortunately that’s not the case. A player lost everything because he thought only his carried items would go.
Your property, base and items will be gone, so don’t plan on carrying cash, gear or a base to another state. Your jail time, tattoos and B-Coin stay with you, while unclaimed mail rewards are lost and clan membership may need to be set up again.
How to Change Servers Through Prison
Prison is also how you switch servers. In order to do so follow these steps: open the global map, select Prison, and choose Surrender to Feds. Once you’re in prison, pick the same state as your friend, then send the party invite again. The prison part is the same as above, and it costs your stuff in the state you leave, so use the escape prompt only if you’re starting fresh.
Does Getting Arrested Send You to Prison?
No. Surrendering to a city cop only confiscates your bag contents, and your equipped gear stays with you. If you bribe a cop instead, you keep your loot. The bribe comes out of your bank money. Dying also has different costs depending on how you die, for example a masked criminal in Looty Bay loses their inventory.
The main prison is only reached by Surrender to Feds or by the weekly Federal Raid.
