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{{imagemargin|[[File:prisoner_preview.png|right]]|18px}}'''Prisoners''' are [[people]] who have been taken captive. This usually includes [[raiders]], but colonists can be imprisoned too.{{TOCright}}</onlyinclude>
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== Summary ==
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Prisoners are ordinary pawns under restraint. They have no [[Recreation]] needs, but all other needs and most [[mood]]lets apply to them. This includes a need for [[food]] and the chance for [[mental break]]s. They are confined to their cell, and will not do work. Prisoners retain their faction allegiance; imprisoned colonists who are released will immediately rejoin the colony, while other prisoners will try and leave the map.
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Prisoners cannot open doors if not undergoing a [[#Prison Break|prison break]]. While inside your colony, they will try to leave if there is an opening, such as a hole in the wall or a held open door, including if it is held open because of an item inside. A prisoner that can move will wear the most comfortable{{Check Tag|Verify/Detail}} clothing placed in their cell. They eat the food with the best mood buff that they can reach, ignoring food restrictions. Mobile prisoners can use a [[nutrient paste dispenser]] that faces into their prison. Otherwise, wardens will bring any food allowed by their [[Menus#Food restriction|food restrictions]]. A prisoner's medical settings, as well as defaults for all prisoners, can be adjusted in their Health tab.
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Colonists assigned to Warden can interact with a prisoner in multiple different ways, including delivering food and recruitment. Colonists assigned to either Warden or Doctoring can feed a prisoner in medical rest. See [[#Interaction]] for more details.
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=== Unwaveringly loyal ===
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Unwaveringly loyal prisoners are unable to be recruited to your colony, and do not have resistance to lower. They are otherwise the same as regular prisoners, including the ability to become a [[slave]]{{IdeologyIcon}}.
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Unwaveringly loyal prisoners can be recruited after undergoing the [[Brainwipe]] psychic ritual.{{AnomalyIcon}}.
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Unwavering loyalty can be disabled in the [[storyteller settings]]. Note that the enabling unwaveringly loyal pawns decreases the percentage of raiders that are automatically killed on [[down]]ing to almost exactly make up for the percentage of pawns that are now unrecruitable - this means that the number of recruitable prisoners remains constant with either option, but the total number of prisoners increases with unwaveringly loyal enabled. This is pure benefit if the player only intends to recruit from the pool of randomly downed raiders, however if the player was willing to specifically target good pawns for safe-downing and recruitment, such as through [[blood loss|bleed]] kiting or [[psychic shock lance]], then some portion of those previously recruitable pawns will instead be loyal and thus unavailable.
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If an unwaveringly loyal pawn joins your colony through any means, they will lose their unwavering loyalty.
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=== Caravans ===
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Prisoners can be loaded into a [[caravan]]. If they can walk, they can carry 35 kg worth of items, like your colonists. When inside a caravan, the prisoner will never try and escape unless its part of a [[mental break]].
  
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If the caravan enters a loaded map (such as an ambush), the prisoner will wander around idily, and may walk into the crossfire. Enemies will also target prisoners if their factions are enemies.
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Prisoners are [[people]], usually [[Raider|raiders]], hostile tribals, or your own colonists undergoing a [[mood|mental break]], who have been taken captive. They are unable to leave their [[Room_roles|prison barracks]] and can only use facilities (such as a [[Nutrient_paste_dispenser|food dispenser]] or [[equipment_rack|equipment rack]]) on their own if they are placed inside the prison barracks.  
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== Capturing prisoners ==
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In order to capture any prisoner, you need a valid prison, which is enclosed and has an open [[bed]] or [[sleeping spot]] (See [[#Prisons]] below).
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The gameplay steps required to capture a pawn depends on their state:
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* [[Downed]] pawns can be captured with 100% success, without drafting a pawn. Select a colonist, and right click the future prisoner.
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** [[Raider]]s, [[berserk]] pawns, and former prisoners in a  [[prison break]] are unable to be captured directly. They must first be [[downed]].
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** NOTE: Raiders in particular have a [[AI Storytellers#Enemy death on downed|chance to die]] whenever they are downed from [[pain]] - such as from being injured. This does not apply if the pawn is downed from other causes; some ways to get around this include:
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*** [[Psychic shock lance]], although there is a risk of burning the brain
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*** [[Blood loss]]
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*** [[Tox gas]]{{BiotechIcon}}, although not all xenotypes are affected, and [[Toxic buildup]] also has risks
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* To ''arrest'' a colonist, guest, ally, or [[slave]]{{IdeologyIcon}}, you need to [[draft]] a colonist and select the target to capture. The colonist will then walk up to the target and attempt a capture. The chance of success depends on their [[Arrest Success Chance]], and will be displayed on the prompt. Arrest success chance largely depends on [[Social]] skill, but is negatively affected by [[Manipulation]] penalties. If the arrest fails, the target will go [[berserk]]. Pawns with the [[dead calm]] gene{{BiotechIcon}} always have a 100% success chance, regardless of arrester stats, and thus will never go berserk when arrested.
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** Colonists can be captured even during a [[mental break]], except for [[berserk]]. This immediately ends most mental breaks, without catharsis. When released, colonists will get the {{--|6}} ''Was imprisoned'' [[mood]]let for 12 days. This mood penalty will not occur if the colonist is instead re-recruited. Arrests will not end the [[Mental break#Run wild|run wild]] or [[mental break#Catatonic breakdown|catatonic breakdown]] mental breaks.
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If you attempt to capture a pawn from a neutral or allied [[faction]], the faction will immediately turn hostile. This includes [[transport pod]] crashes, if they happen to be part of an existing faction.
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If you need to capture a pawn, then [[sleeping spot]]s can be used to instantly create a prison and bed space anywhere indoors. You can also turn a colonist bedroom into a prison.
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=== Reasons to imprison ===
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* To recruit raiders, guests, or transport pod crashes into a colony.
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* To use raiders for their [[human resources]].
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* To end most [[mental break]]s. Colonists can immediately be released afterwards.
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* To keep a colonist restrained in order to overcome [[drug]] withdrawal.
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* To convert a colonist or [[slave]] to a desired [[ideoligion]].{{IdeologyIcon}}
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* To act as sources of [[Genes#Bloodfeeder|bloodfeeding]] or [[hemogen pack]]s.{{BiotechIcon}}
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== Prisons ==
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[[File:Thank you Megasloth for letting my prisoners run.png|thumb|right|350px|Megasloth getting sheared at the exit of a prison door, holding it open for a prisoner to escape.]]
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Prisons are required to hold prisoners.
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=== Creation ===
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A prison must be designated in a fully enclosed [[room]], closed off with [[wall]]s and other impassable objects like [[door]]s, [[cooler]]s and [[nutrient paste dispenser]]s. Prisoners cannot be captured unless the prison is enclosed, and mobile prisoners will walk out of the map if an opening exists.
  
You should notice that your colonists won't interact with objects in the prisoner's cell. For example, if you turn a recently-mined-out compacted steel vein into a cell, but there is still some metal on the ground, your colonists won't haul it away without manually selecting them to do so. Colonists also can't haul food away from cells, even when directed to do so.  Animals may still enter the cell on their own and eat that food however.
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In order to actually form a prison, at least 1 [[bed]] or [[sleeping spot]] must be placed. Selecting the bed allows you to set "For Prisoners". Colonists and [[slaves]]{{IdeologyIcon}} may not share the same room as a prisoner; when 1 bed is set to prisoners, all beds will be converted to prison beds. The beds will turn orange to signify this, and the whole room gains an orange outline when selected. In order to actually capture a prisoner, there must be an open sleeping area for them to stay.
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==Taking a Prisoner==
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=== General ===
In order to take a prisoner, the following must be present:
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A prison is called a ''prison cell'' if there is 1 bed available, or a ''prison barracks'' if there are multiple beds. A prison is otherwise treated as a bed room or barracks, including [[mood]] impacts for its Impressiveness.
  
# A fully enclosed cell where you want the prisoner(s) to stay.
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Prisoners can only use items that are in their cell. Food, beds, and [[nutrient paste dispenser]]s placed inside a prison are reserved for prisoner use. While a colonist can be ordered to eat food placed in a prison cell, they will not automatically do so. Colonists on the food binge [[mental break]], as well as [[animal]]s, will ignore a prison for this purpose.
# At least one unclaimed bed or sleeping spot per prisoner to sleep on in this cell.
 
  
Note that several larger devices such as the [[nutrient paste dispenser]] count as walls. In order to make a prisoner's bed, you need to click the bed/sleeping spot and click the button that says "Set for prisoners". The bed will turn orange with an orange outline of the room indicating what will be considered a cell. Setting one bed for prisoners will set all beds in that room as prison beds. Cells cannot be shared with non-prisoners. Also note that changing bed settings while a colonist is already carrying a captive may cause your pawn to release the other and generate the need to recapture which can as well result in the death of the outsider.
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Unless you want your prisoners to die, make sure that it is hospitable. Regulate the [[temperature]], or give prisoners sufficiently insulating [[clothing]], such as [[tribalwear]]. Make sure that food gets to a prisoner (either via a storage zone, warden delivery, or [[nutrient paste dispenser]]). Otherwise, see [[#Mood regulation]] for how to make your prison better for the inmates... or worse.
  
To arrest a prisoner, first select a [[soldier|drafted colonist]], then right-click the target to arrest, and select 'Try to arrest <name>'. This will order the colonist to chase after, then escort, the target person. Sometimes the target will 'refuse to be arrested' (with a top of screen message) and your colonist will not reattempt to capture the pawn unless you direct them to do so. While conducting an arrest, if the drafted colonist has a mental break, the colonist will drop the prisoner and the prisoner will attempt to escape if they are not incapacitated.
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== Interaction ==
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Players can assign wardens to do the following tasks:
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* '''[[#Resistance|Recruit]]''' - Reduces the prisoner's [[#Resistance|resistance]], then attempts to recruit.
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* '''[[#Resistance|Reduce resistance]]''' - Reduces the prisoner's [[#Resistance|resistance]], does not recruit.
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* '''[[#Release|Release]]''' - Releases the prisoner. Imprisoned colonists will rejoin the colony, while other factions will attempt to leave the map.
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* '''[[#Execute|Execute]]''' - Order wardens to kill the prisoner.
  
Incapacitated pawns can be captured, without the need to draft a colonist.
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The following options are added by [[DLC]]:
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* '''[[#Will|Enslave]]'''{{IdeologyIcon}} - Reduces the prisoner's [[#Will|will]], then forces them into [[slave]]ry.
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* '''[[#Will|Reduce will]]'''{{IdeologyIcon}} - Reduces the prisoner's [[#Will|will]], does not enslave them.
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* '''[[#Convert|Convert]]'''{{IdeologyIcon}} - Attempts to convert the prisoner into a warden's [[ideoligion]].
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* '''[[#Bloodfeed|Bloodfeed]]'''{{BiotechIcon}} - [[Sanguophage]]s and other pawns with the [[Genes#Bloodfeeder|Bloodfeeder]] [[gene]] will drink the prisoner's blood.
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* '''[[#Hemogen farm|Hemogen Farm]]'''{{BiotechIcon}} - Pawns assigned to the [[Work#Doctor|Doctor]] worktype will automatically extract [[hemogen pack]]s from the prisoner.
  
[[Raiders]] cannot be arrested. They must be captured if you wish to take one as a prisoner. To capture a raider you must incapacitate them first, then right-click on them and select 'Capture <name>'. This will order the colonist to drag the raider to an unclaimed prison bed or prisoner sleeping spot.
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=== Resistance ===
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{{see also|#Recruitment{{!}}Recruitment}}
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Prisoners start with '''resistance''', or unwillingness to join the colony. This must be lowered to 0 for recruitment attempts to begin. Unwaveringly loyal prisoners do not have a resistance stat, and can't be recruited.
  
Prisoners can be marked as 'guilty' through some actions, such as attacking the colony, killing/downing a colonist or attempting escape. During these times, executing that prisoner incurs a lesser mood penalty.
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Under the ''Recruit'' or ''Reduce Resistance'' orders, wardens will attempt to lower the resistance. How much is reduced depends on a prisoner's [[mood]], the warden's [[Negotiation Ability]], and the prisoner's [[opinion]] of the warden. Wardens with more [[Social]] skill have a greater Negotiation Ability. There is a delay between each conversation.
  
==Hosting a Prisoner==
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Once resistance hits 0, wardens will try to convince the prisoner to join the colony, with a chance to succeed, depending on each prisoner's recruitment difficulty percentage, their current mood, faction, how many colonists you currently have, as well as your [[storyteller]]. If the prisoner is assigned to ''Reduce Resistance'', then wardens will continue to converse without actually recruiting.
Prisoners, like colonists, require food and medical attention or they may die. If the cell is broken, the prisoner will make an attempt to escape but can only be recaptured if the Taking a Prisoner conditions are met.
 
  
A solution to instantly meeting the conditions can be to convert one or more of the colonists' beds (provided the colonist have a private room with a claimed sleeping spot or bed) into a prison bed, and if necessary add enough [[sleeping spot]]s in the same room to house all prisoners, while the real prisons are being built.
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For exact mechanics and chances of recruitment, see [[#Recruitment]].
  
Multiple prison beds can be built in the same prison room, so several prisoners can be held in one room for "compact prisoner storage", but if the door or wall is broken they will all escape at the same time. Prisoners without their own rooms will suffer a mood penalty, the same as colonists.
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==== Will ====
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Enslave{{IdeologyIcon}} and Reduce Will{{IdeologyIcon}} work analogously to Recruit and Reduce Resistance, except that the end result is that the prisoner becomes a [[slave]]{{IdeologyIcon}}. A prisoner starts with much less will than they do resistance.
  
==Prisoners Interaction==
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==== Tame ====
Only wardens and doctors can interact with prisoners. Interactions are determined by the option chosen selected in the Prisoner Interface. Other than the "Gets food", "Try to recruit", "Doctors care", and "Gets medicine" options, only one interaction in the Prisoner Interface may be selected at a time. If a prisoner is incapacitated, a doctor is required to feed the prisoner.
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A [[wild man]] can be arrested and imprisoned. However, they must be [[tame]]d using the usual [[animal]] mechanics, rather than being recruited as a prisoner. Once tamed, they will join the colony as a colonist.
  
=== Care ===
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=== Release ===
Determines if your colonists will take care of prisoners, or just let them die.
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Wardens will take the prisoner outside your colony, and free the prisoner. "Outside the colony" means beyond your outermost line of connected walls, so it could be just out the door, or across most of the map if your defenses stretch that far.  
  
====Gets food====
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Releasing a prisoner of another faction will give a [[goodwill]] boost of +12. In order to count towards goodwill, the prisoner must successfully leave the map healthy, with any wounds tended to. Prisoners that can't walk can't be released. Pirates and savage tribes do not interact with goodwill, so releasing them has no effect.
Wardens will provide food to the prisoner if available. When this option is unchecked a prisoner may eat meals left in a stockpile in the room or from a [[nutrient paste dispenser]], if one is accessible and stocked.
 
  
====Medical care====
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Releasing a colonist will have them rejoin your colony. [[Slave]]s retain their home faction.
Determines the level of medical care administered to the prisoner. The range is similar to [[doctoring]] colonists: no care at all, to doctor care only, to medicine levels available.
 
  
==== Medical operations ====
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=== Execute ===
You can also operate on any prisoners, the same way you operate on colonists.
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Wardens will cut a prisoner's neck immediately, killing them without fail. This is a different action from the ''Prisoner execution'' [[ritual]].
  
This allows you to do things such as handicapping the prisoner to make them unable to escape (installing a peg leg then removing it), harvesting their organs, administering drugs or euthanizing them.
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Executing guilty prisoners - those who have harmed the colony in 24 hours - give a {{--|2}} [[mood]]let to non-[[Psychopath]] colonists. Executing a non-guilty prisoner increases the penalty to {{--|5}}.
  
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Colonists following an [[ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} with the [[Ideoligion#Execution|Execution: Respected if Guilty]] precept instead gain a {{+|3}} [[mood]]let for executing a guilty prisoner, with the executioner gaining {{+|10}} mood instead. The [[Ideoligion#Execution|Execution: Required]] precept gains the same moodlets (but shorter) for executing anyone. If the execution was desired by precept, then fluid ideoligions gain a development point.
=== Social Interactions ===
 
Determines what social interactions wardens will have with prisoners.
 
  
====No interaction====
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Executed prisoners who are then [[Resurrector mech serum|resurrected]] will have the execute toggle deselected to prevent their immediate re-execution.
Wardens will not interact with the prisoner, causing no effect to relations.
 
  
====Friendly chat====
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=== Convert ===
Wardens will have a conversation with the prisoner, causing an increase in relations between the warden and the prisoner, as well as the Social skill of the warden. This improves the chance of recruiting them later on.
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{{Ideology|section=1}}
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Attemps to [[Ideoligion#Conversion|convert]] the prisoner to the warden's own [[ideoligion]]. The target ideoligion can be selected, which will only allow wardens of that ideoligion to convert.
  
====Chat and recruit====
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This is functionally the same as [[Ideoligion#Conversion|regular conversion]] that can occur randomly between colonists, except that it is done on a regular basis.
Wardens will try to convince the prisoner to join the colony, but will only have a small chance to succeed, depending on each prisoner's recruitment difficulty percentage, their current mood, their faction, how many colonists you currently have, as well as your [[storyteller]]
 
Wardens will gain Social rapport with each prisoner over time, making recruiting easier and lasting past their recruitment.
 
  
To maximize the recruit chance by fulfilling the prisoner's needs: make sure the cell is beautiful (potted plants, carpet, art, etc), lit, spacious, with a comfortable bed, and has a table and chair for the prisoner to eat off of. The carpet and plants should be done early on, as it is a big bonus for little effort. Have a separate cell for each prisoner, both to remove the "sharing rooms" debuff and to prevent them from killing one another. Feed prisoners your best food, set your colonist with the highest social rating as Warden, and wait.
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=== Hemogen ===
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==== Bloodfeed ====
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Pawns with the ''Bloodfeeder'' [[gene]] will automatically drink the blood from a prisoner, directly. This happens when a bloodfeeder is below their desired Hemogen and if the bloodfeeding would not kill the prisoner.
  
====Release====
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==== Hemogen farm ====
Wardens will take the prisoner outside and free the prisoner, who will then promptly leave the map.
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Automatically orders the operation extract [[hemogen pack]] when a prisoner's [[blood loss]] level reaches 0. In addition to creating drinkable hemogen, it also trains the surgeon's Medical skill.
  
Releasing an arrested colonist will have them rejoin your colony.
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=== Other ===
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* Prisoners can be escorted by a warden to a prisoner bed. Prisoners can be escorted to a prisoner medical bed, if needed, without a risk of escape.
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* Prisoners can initiate social fights, both with colonists and other prisoners. Social fights with wardens are unlikely, as recruitment conversations quicky increase [[opinion]].
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* Prisoners can be given any number of medical [[operation]]s. This includes injecting [[drug]]s, installing [[artificial body parts]], [[organ harvesting]], and more.
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* Prisoners are valid targets for a [[gene extractor]]{{BiotechIcon}}, [[subcore softscanner]]{{BiotechIcon}}, or [[subcore ripscanner]]{{BiotechIcon}}.
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* Prisoners can be sold to a [[faction base]] or slaver for [[silver]], or a royal tribute collector{{RoyaltyIcon}} for [[honor]]. Colonists who do not like slavery will get a -3 moodlet, modified by [[ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}}.
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* If a prisoner dies, the mood penalty depends on their cause of death. "Intentional" means, like violent combat, count as an execution.
  
Releasing a prisoner from another faction will give +15 goodwill with their faction once they leave the map, provided he or she didn't belong to a pirate faction.  Note that this bonus only happens as soon as they "leave the map".  If that prisoner can't walk, then he or she can't leave the map.  To prevent this, only prisoners capable of walking can be released.  If they are incapacitated and you want to release them, then you have to heal them before releasing them if possible.
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== Prison break ==
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{{Template:Prison Break}}
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{{Clear}}
  
====Execution====
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== Recruitment ==
The warden will kill the prisoner, causing a -5 mood debuff for any colonist without the [[Traits|psychopath]] trait for 10.0 days, unless they are considered guiltyExecuting guilty prisoners only causes a -2 mood debuff.
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In order to start recruitment, a target pawn must first be captured, and become a prisonerPrisoners then must be set to "Recruit" (or "Reduce Resistance" and then "Recruit") in the "Prisoner" tab of their personal info box (bottom left of screen when pawn is selected).
  
Note that euthanasia also kills the prisoner but only gives a -3 mood debuff and trains your doctors, too. Guilty prisoners euthanized will still give a -2 mood penalty.
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Then colonists assigned to wardening will "chat" with the target prisoner. This can be repeated every several hours, each one reducing [[#Resistance|Resistance]] by a predictable amount (based on the Social pawn's Social skill and the target's Mood).  
  
=== Accidental ===
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=== Starting resistance ===
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Each prisoner has their own recruitment difficulty:
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* The maximum difficulty is 99%, while the minimum is 10%. The average is 50% with a standard deviation of 15%.
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* For each level of technology between your faction and the enemy's, the difficulty is increased by 16%. [[New Tribe]]s have a harder time recruiting outlanders, for instance.
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* The [[storyteller]] will change the recruitment difficulty of prisoners depending on your existing population.
  
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A prisoner's base resistance depends on their difficulty. At 10% difficulty, prisoners have no starting resistance. At 50%, they have 15. At 90%, they have 25. At 100%, they have 50.
If there is an exit towards open space or you leave the prison door open, the prisoner may escape.
 
  
Dropping items right in the door holds it open, giving opportunistic prisoners their chance.
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This is multiplied by the storyteller's 'population intent' factor- the greater your population, the less the storyteller will want you to have an increase in population, and hence the higher the starting resistance. At -1 intent, the resistance is multiplied by 2. At 0, the resistance is multiplied by 1.5. At 1, the resistance is multiplied by 1. At 2, the resistance is multiplied by 0.8.
  
[[File:Thank you Megasloth for letting my prisoners run.png|500px]]
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Finally, the resistance is multiplied by a random factor between 0.8 and 1.2.
  
==== Social fights ====
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=== Resistance reduction ===
Like colonists, prisoners can also initiate social fights with other prisoners that they are locked together with.
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A warden will reduce a base of 1.0 resistance per conversation. This is multiplied by:
  
== Escorting ==
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'''Prisoner's [[opinion]] of the warden:'''
Colonists can escort prisoners from hospitals where the bed settings were both for prisoner and hospital to another cell exclusively set for prisoner only without risking accidental release.
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* At -100 opinion, the resistance reduction factor is 50%.
[[File:Escorting prisoner.png|300px|thumb|none|Escorting prisoner from one cell to another.]]
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* At 0 opinion, the resistance reduction factor is 100%.
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* At 100 opinion, the resistance reduction factor is 150%.
  
==Prison breaks==
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'''Prisoner [[mood]]:'''
Prisoners have a small chance to decide to break out and escape. During this time, they are able to open all prison doors like your colonists, and will attempt to equip weapons. Prisoner break events are rolled per prisoner, meaning that the more prisoners you have, the greater the chance of a prison break happening.
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* At 0% current mood, the resistance reduction factor is 20%.
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* At 50% mood, the resistance reduction factor is 100%.
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* At 100% mood, the resistance reduction factor is 150%.
  
In a break, all prisoners in that cell or barracks will escape. Prisoners from different cells may also join in, or choose not to do so.
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'''Negotiation Ability:'''
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* See [[Negotiation Ability]].
  
To fight escaping prisoners with less risk of killing them, use blunt weaponry, unarmed melee, or a single colonist shooting them. Be careful about downed wardens as they will steal weapons from them, making them harder to fight. Place your exits away from the map edge, preferably facing a direction where your colonists can quickly respond to breakouts. Funneling all prisoners into 1 exit also helps in dealing with prison breaks by allowing wardens to deal with them 1 at a time.
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The [[Psycasts#Word of trust|Word of Trust psycast]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} will reduce resistance by 20, multiplied directly by the prisoner's [[Psychic Sensitivity]] and no other factors.
  
== Unwanted Prisoners ==  
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== Tips ==
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=== Mood regulation ===
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Increasing [[mood]] makes prisoners easier to recruit, and less likely to go [[berserk]]. If you want to increase prisoner mood, you can do the following:
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* Give prisoners separate rooms, preferably one that isn't cramped.
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* Give a prisoners a source of [[light]], a [[table]] and [[chair]], and a decent [[bed]].
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* Increase the impressiveness of a room with [[sculpture]]s, [[stone tile]]s, etc.
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* Give the prisoner [[fine meal]]s, [[lavish meal]]s, or even [[drug]]s.
  
There are several ways to 'get rid of' unwanted prisoners.  Most involve the death the prisoner. Any colonist without the [[Traits|psychopath]] trait will get a negative mood effect from a prisoner dying. Normally this effect is -5, but euthanasia gives a lighter -3 penalty, and if a prisoner is considered ''guilty'' and is executed/euthanized, it will only be -2.
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=== Changing ideoligion ===
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If you want to change the target's [[ideoligion]], then instead try and make the prisoner upset. Lower mood reduces [[certainty]] gain, and may cause a [[Mental break#Crisis of belief|Crisis of Belief]] extreme mental break, which reduces certainty by 50%. The following can help with decreasing mood:
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* Keep prisoners in a confined, dark space, without a bed or furniture. Even if there's only 1 prisoner, placing 2 [[sleeping spot]]s will create a prison barracks.
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* Feed the pawn [[human meat]], [[insect meat]], [[raw food]], or [[kibble]]. Certain ideoligions can make some of these foods more desirable, but kibble is never desirable to eat.
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* Keep them in [[pain]]. Inflicting [[injury]] comes at the risk of scarring or permanent damage, however, and a [[mindscrew]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} cannot be removed by traditional methods once the pawn is converted. A [[torture crown]] is a risk free way of inflicting pain, but dressing prisoners has its own difficulties.
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Keep in mind that crises of belief that would drop a pawn's certainty to or below 0%, will instead convert the pawn to a weighted randomly selected ideoligion with a new certainty. While this process might select the intended ideoligion, it may not while also requiring their certainty be reduced again. If a pawn's certainty is below 50%, consider improving their mood above their extreme [[mental break threshold]] to prevent this.
  
Enemies who had fallen by your might may not always be worth their keep, e.g. a hostile who during the fight got his/her spine shattered. That person won't be able to move at all and can't obtain a replacement, so are unable to perform anything for your colony, to the point that not even slave traders will be interested in purchasing them. They are only useful for organ harvests and should be disposed of as they can't be released either.
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It is also worth considering the individual pawn when deciding on an approach. The first concern are the [[traits]] - many traits affect the [[Global Certainty Loss Factor]] of a pawn, which in turn affect the efficacy of conversion attempts by wardens. For pawns with a high factor, traditional conversion will be effective, while forcing a crisis of belief may be all but necessary. For further details, including a list of traits that affect the factor, see [[Certainty]] and [[Global Certainty Loss Factor]].  
  
; Organ removal* : You can remove one kidney and one lung without prisoner dying. Removing important, singular body parts like the heart will kill the prisoner. Removing any organ will give all colonists without the [[Traits|psychopath]] trait a negative mood modifier.
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The second concern are [[xenotypes]]{{BiotechIcon}}  with the [[Aggressive]] and [[Hyper-aggressive]] genes.{{BiotechIcon}}  Those with aggressive, including all [[yttakin]],{{BiotechIcon}}  [[wasters]],{{BiotechIcon}}  [[neanderthals]],{{BiotechIcon}}  and [[sanguophages]],{{BiotechIcon}}  are much more likely to have a berserk mental break, proportionally reducing the chances of a crisis of belief. Meanwhile those with hyper-aggressive will essentially never select the crisis, making pawns such as [[hussars]]{{BiotechIcon}}  all but impossible to convert by crisis.
  
; Starvation : Set 'gets food' to the false (x) and wait.  The prisoner will have the negative [[thoughts]] and resulting [[Mood|mental breaks]] associated with hunger. This may cause prisoners in shared cells to attack each other, including them severely injuring/killing ones you don't want dead.
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=== Prisoner suppression ===
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Whenever they are [[berserk]], under a [[#Prison break|prison break]], or just escaping, sometimes you will need to subdue a prisoner. When berserk, prisoners will fight other prisoners, then will punch the weakest area (usually a [[door]]) to escape. When under a prisoner break, they can just open the door.
; Selling To Slaver* : If combined with organ removal this gets you the most silver. Selling a prisoner will give all colonists trait a negative mood modifier and the seller a Social penalty.
 
  
; Temperature control : Using heaters or coolers, lower/raise the temperature of the cell to a lethal level.
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If you need to keep the prisoner alive, it is best to use low damage weapons and attacks - even just melee attacks with a gun or bare fists. Several unskilled pawns work better than 1 skilled one. For berserkers, you can have a skilled [[Construction]] pawn constantly repair the door. This trains Construction but is labor intensive. You can also wall the prisoner in, which will cause them to stop attacking the door and just wander around in their cell instead.  
  
; Manually killing them* : You can draft a soldier with a weapon and order them to kill the prisoner by clicking 'B' and selecting the prisoner.  
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If free roaming [[animal]]s are within the prison, then [[berserk]]ing prisoners will prioritize them over breaking out. You can place [[animal sleeping spot]]s inside the prison for an automatic form of prisoner suppression. Note that animals are slightly more dangerous than humans. In addition, most animals will create a large amount of [[filth]], quickly lowering the room's quality. You may want to use [[straw matting]].
  
; Execution* : The execution in the prisoner interaction menu allows this.
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=== Unwanted prisoners ===
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Enemies who have fallen in battle may not always be worth capturing in the first place. For example, a hostile with a shattered spine will require a [[bionic spine]] to replace, which may not be worth it. Unwavering prisoners can't be recruited normally, so fall under the same boat.
  
; Euthanasia : Open the 'Operations' menu in the Health tab, then select 'Euthanize'. A doctor will come in and euthanize the prisoner. Similar to Execution, except it allows doctors to practice medicine, and has a lighter mood penalty.
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There are several ways to dispose of these prisoners:
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* '''Release:''' The least upsetting way to remove a prisoner. Colonists will not become upset if an enemy prisoner is released, and it may increase [[goodwill]] by a small amount.
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* '''Expendables:''' This is not exactly "getting rid of them", as much as making best (and ultimately temporary) use of them. Recruit them, and send them out for a long [[caravan]] that you wouldn't expend another colonist for. You can set them on a trading expedition, or scout a base/map. Or, you can use them as a meatshield. A "colonist" dying still gives a negative moodlet (-3, same as incidental death or non-guilty euthanasia), which is affected by [[opinion]]. Cut off their tongue to prevent social interaction from happening. Of course, unwavering prisoners can't be recruited.
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* '''Euthanasia:''' Execute in a more humane fashion by neck cut. This costs 1x [[herbal medicine]] (or better) and trains Medical experience. An 'innocent' prisoner going through euthanasia is less upsetting than an innocent execution.
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* '''Execution:''' Execute a prisoner in a raw manner. Those with an [[ideoligion]] favoring execution will enjoy it. With a fluid ideoligion, execution is a very easy way to gain development points (so long as it is Respected if Guilty).
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* '''[[Human resources]]:''' Use prisoners for their parts. Artificial limbs can be removed without penalty.
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** [[Organ harvesting]]: A [[kidney]] and [[lung]] can be harvested without death, and a [[heart]], [[liver]], or second kidney/lung can be taken to kill. Unless Organ Use is acceptable by [[ideoligion]], this comes with a -6 [[mood]] penalty (stacks, but diminishing) for the colony, and even more if the prisoner was killed.
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** Used for a [[gene extractor]]{{BiotechIcon}} or [[subcore ripscanner]]{{BiotechIcon}}, the latter of which is fatal.
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* '''Selling:''' Prisoners can be sold for money at a [[faction base]] or slaver, or exchanged for [[honor]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} from a royal tribute collector. Each sold prisoner gives -3 [[mood]].
  
; Release : Financial gains aside, this can be the best option as you get free goodwill without negative mood effects. Not very useful against pirates as it does not result in increased goodwill, but it does prevent the mood debuffs that normally result from getting rid of unwanted prisoners.
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== Version history ==
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* [[Version/0.8.657|0.8.657]] - You can now release prisoners. This gains you goodwill from their faction.
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* [[Version/0.13.1135|0.13.1135]] - Prison breaks added.
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* 1.1 - Interface now reports the chance of a successful arrest before you try to make it.
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* [[Version/1.1.2570|1.1.2570]] - Escaping prisoners are no longer able to equip [[Persona weapons|bladelinked]] or [[biocoded]] weapons.
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* [[Version/1.3.3066|1.3.3066]] - Prisoner escape chance is multiplied by the number of exits the prisoner has. Escaping prisoners will attack enemies with weapons they pick up, including [[orbital bombardment targeter]]s, [[orbital power beam targeter]]s, and [[tornado generator]]s.
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* [[Version/1.4.3523|1.4.3523]] - Unwavering prisoners added. Fix: Resurrected executed prisoners retain the execute option and usually immediately get executed after being resurrected.
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* [[Version/1.4.3529|1.4.3529]] - Fix exploit: Unwaveringly loyal can be bypassed by enslaving prisoners. Fix exploit: Capture>Enslave>Imprison>Release recruits pawns immediately.
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* [[Version/1.4.3555|1.4.3555]] - Fix: Enslaving a pawn removes unwaveringly loyal. Fix: Unwaveringly loyal inspect pane text not appearing for slaves.
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* [[Version/1.4.3613|1.4.3613]] - Fix: Child prisoners attempt to wear adult clothing, causing it to disappear.
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* [[Version/1.4.3641|1.4.3641]] - Fix: Error on releasing space refugee prisoners.
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* [[Version/1.4.3682|1.4.3682]] - Fix: [[Dead calm]] pawns go berserk when arresting fails. Fix: Captured prisoners escaping from reformed caravans.
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* [[Version/1.5.4062|1.5.4062]] - Fix: The "run wild" mental break can occur on unwaveringly loyal pawns, causing them to be tameable. Unlisted change: Unwaveringly loyal prisoners can be converted to different ideologies.
  
 
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Prisoners are people who have been taken captive. This usually includes raiders, but colonists can be imprisoned too.

Summary[edit]

Prisoners are ordinary pawns under restraint. They have no Recreation needs, but all other needs and most moodlets apply to them. This includes a need for food and the chance for mental breaks. They are confined to their cell, and will not do work. Prisoners retain their faction allegiance; imprisoned colonists who are released will immediately rejoin the colony, while other prisoners will try and leave the map.

Prisoners cannot open doors if not undergoing a prison break. While inside your colony, they will try to leave if there is an opening, such as a hole in the wall or a held open door, including if it is held open because of an item inside. A prisoner that can move will wear the most comfortable[Verify/Detail] clothing placed in their cell. They eat the food with the best mood buff that they can reach, ignoring food restrictions. Mobile prisoners can use a nutrient paste dispenser that faces into their prison. Otherwise, wardens will bring any food allowed by their food restrictions. A prisoner's medical settings, as well as defaults for all prisoners, can be adjusted in their Health tab.

Colonists assigned to Warden can interact with a prisoner in multiple different ways, including delivering food and recruitment. Colonists assigned to either Warden or Doctoring can feed a prisoner in medical rest. See #Interaction for more details.

Unwaveringly loyal[edit]

Unwaveringly loyal prisoners are unable to be recruited to your colony, and do not have resistance to lower. They are otherwise the same as regular prisoners, including the ability to become a slaveContent added by the Ideology DLC.

Unwaveringly loyal prisoners can be recruited after undergoing the Brainwipe psychic ritual.Content added by the Anomaly DLC.

Unwavering loyalty can be disabled in the storyteller settings. Note that the enabling unwaveringly loyal pawns decreases the percentage of raiders that are automatically killed on downing to almost exactly make up for the percentage of pawns that are now unrecruitable - this means that the number of recruitable prisoners remains constant with either option, but the total number of prisoners increases with unwaveringly loyal enabled. This is pure benefit if the player only intends to recruit from the pool of randomly downed raiders, however if the player was willing to specifically target good pawns for safe-downing and recruitment, such as through bleed kiting or psychic shock lance, then some portion of those previously recruitable pawns will instead be loyal and thus unavailable.

If an unwaveringly loyal pawn joins your colony through any means, they will lose their unwavering loyalty.

Caravans[edit]

Prisoners can be loaded into a caravan. If they can walk, they can carry 35 kg worth of items, like your colonists. When inside a caravan, the prisoner will never try and escape unless its part of a mental break.

If the caravan enters a loaded map (such as an ambush), the prisoner will wander around idily, and may walk into the crossfire. Enemies will also target prisoners if their factions are enemies.

Capturing prisoners[edit]

In order to capture any prisoner, you need a valid prison, which is enclosed and has an open bed or sleeping spot (See #Prisons below).

The gameplay steps required to capture a pawn depends on their state:

  • Downed pawns can be captured with 100% success, without drafting a pawn. Select a colonist, and right click the future prisoner.
    • Raiders, berserk pawns, and former prisoners in a prison break are unable to be captured directly. They must first be downed.
    • NOTE: Raiders in particular have a chance to die whenever they are downed from pain - such as from being injured. This does not apply if the pawn is downed from other causes; some ways to get around this include:
  • To arrest a colonist, guest, ally, or slaveContent added by the Ideology DLC, you need to draft a colonist and select the target to capture. The colonist will then walk up to the target and attempt a capture. The chance of success depends on their Arrest Success Chance, and will be displayed on the prompt. Arrest success chance largely depends on Social skill, but is negatively affected by Manipulation penalties. If the arrest fails, the target will go berserk. Pawns with the dead calm geneContent added by the Biotech DLC always have a 100% success chance, regardless of arrester stats, and thus will never go berserk when arrested.
    • Colonists can be captured even during a mental break, except for berserk. This immediately ends most mental breaks, without catharsis. When released, colonists will get the −6 Was imprisoned moodlet for 12 days. This mood penalty will not occur if the colonist is instead re-recruited. Arrests will not end the run wild or catatonic breakdown mental breaks.

If you attempt to capture a pawn from a neutral or allied faction, the faction will immediately turn hostile. This includes transport pod crashes, if they happen to be part of an existing faction.

If you need to capture a pawn, then sleeping spots can be used to instantly create a prison and bed space anywhere indoors. You can also turn a colonist bedroom into a prison.

Reasons to imprison[edit]

  • To recruit raiders, guests, or transport pod crashes into a colony.
  • To use raiders for their human resources.
  • To end most mental breaks. Colonists can immediately be released afterwards.
  • To keep a colonist restrained in order to overcome drug withdrawal.
  • To convert a colonist or slave to a desired ideoligion.Content added by the Ideology DLC
  • To act as sources of bloodfeeding or hemogen packs.Content added by the Biotech DLC

Prisons[edit]

Megasloth getting sheared at the exit of a prison door, holding it open for a prisoner to escape.

Prisons are required to hold prisoners.

Creation[edit]

A prison must be designated in a fully enclosed room, closed off with walls and other impassable objects like doors, coolers and nutrient paste dispensers. Prisoners cannot be captured unless the prison is enclosed, and mobile prisoners will walk out of the map if an opening exists.

In order to actually form a prison, at least 1 bed or sleeping spot must be placed. Selecting the bed allows you to set "For Prisoners". Colonists and slavesContent added by the Ideology DLC may not share the same room as a prisoner; when 1 bed is set to prisoners, all beds will be converted to prison beds. The beds will turn orange to signify this, and the whole room gains an orange outline when selected. In order to actually capture a prisoner, there must be an open sleeping area for them to stay.

General[edit]

A prison is called a prison cell if there is 1 bed available, or a prison barracks if there are multiple beds. A prison is otherwise treated as a bed room or barracks, including mood impacts for its Impressiveness.

Prisoners can only use items that are in their cell. Food, beds, and nutrient paste dispensers placed inside a prison are reserved for prisoner use. While a colonist can be ordered to eat food placed in a prison cell, they will not automatically do so. Colonists on the food binge mental break, as well as animals, will ignore a prison for this purpose.

Unless you want your prisoners to die, make sure that it is hospitable. Regulate the temperature, or give prisoners sufficiently insulating clothing, such as tribalwear. Make sure that food gets to a prisoner (either via a storage zone, warden delivery, or nutrient paste dispenser). Otherwise, see #Mood regulation for how to make your prison better for the inmates... or worse.

Interaction[edit]

Players can assign wardens to do the following tasks:

  • Recruit - Reduces the prisoner's resistance, then attempts to recruit.
  • Reduce resistance - Reduces the prisoner's resistance, does not recruit.
  • Release - Releases the prisoner. Imprisoned colonists will rejoin the colony, while other factions will attempt to leave the map.
  • Execute - Order wardens to kill the prisoner.

The following options are added by DLC:

Resistance[edit]

Prisoners start with resistance, or unwillingness to join the colony. This must be lowered to 0 for recruitment attempts to begin. Unwaveringly loyal prisoners do not have a resistance stat, and can't be recruited.

Under the Recruit or Reduce Resistance orders, wardens will attempt to lower the resistance. How much is reduced depends on a prisoner's mood, the warden's Negotiation Ability, and the prisoner's opinion of the warden. Wardens with more Social skill have a greater Negotiation Ability. There is a delay between each conversation.

Once resistance hits 0, wardens will try to convince the prisoner to join the colony, with a chance to succeed, depending on each prisoner's recruitment difficulty percentage, their current mood, faction, how many colonists you currently have, as well as your storyteller. If the prisoner is assigned to Reduce Resistance, then wardens will continue to converse without actually recruiting.

For exact mechanics and chances of recruitment, see #Recruitment.

Will[edit]

EnslaveContent added by the Ideology DLC and Reduce WillContent added by the Ideology DLC work analogously to Recruit and Reduce Resistance, except that the end result is that the prisoner becomes a slaveContent added by the Ideology DLC. A prisoner starts with much less will than they do resistance.

Tame[edit]

A wild man can be arrested and imprisoned. However, they must be tamed using the usual animal mechanics, rather than being recruited as a prisoner. Once tamed, they will join the colony as a colonist.

Release[edit]

Wardens will take the prisoner outside your colony, and free the prisoner. "Outside the colony" means beyond your outermost line of connected walls, so it could be just out the door, or across most of the map if your defenses stretch that far.

Releasing a prisoner of another faction will give a goodwill boost of +12. In order to count towards goodwill, the prisoner must successfully leave the map healthy, with any wounds tended to. Prisoners that can't walk can't be released. Pirates and savage tribes do not interact with goodwill, so releasing them has no effect.

Releasing a colonist will have them rejoin your colony. Slaves retain their home faction.

Execute[edit]

Wardens will cut a prisoner's neck immediately, killing them without fail. This is a different action from the Prisoner execution ritual.

Executing guilty prisoners - those who have harmed the colony in 24 hours - give a −2 moodlet to non-Psychopath colonists. Executing a non-guilty prisoner increases the penalty to −5.

Colonists following an ideoligionContent added by the Ideology DLC with the Execution: Respected if Guilty precept instead gain a +3 moodlet for executing a guilty prisoner, with the executioner gaining +10 mood instead. The Execution: Required precept gains the same moodlets (but shorter) for executing anyone. If the execution was desired by precept, then fluid ideoligions gain a development point.

Executed prisoners who are then resurrected will have the execute toggle deselected to prevent their immediate re-execution.

Convert[edit]

Attemps to convert the prisoner to the warden's own ideoligion. The target ideoligion can be selected, which will only allow wardens of that ideoligion to convert.

This is functionally the same as regular conversion that can occur randomly between colonists, except that it is done on a regular basis.

Hemogen[edit]

Bloodfeed[edit]

Pawns with the Bloodfeeder gene will automatically drink the blood from a prisoner, directly. This happens when a bloodfeeder is below their desired Hemogen and if the bloodfeeding would not kill the prisoner.

Hemogen farm[edit]

Automatically orders the operation extract hemogen pack when a prisoner's blood loss level reaches 0. In addition to creating drinkable hemogen, it also trains the surgeon's Medical skill.

Other[edit]

  • Prisoners can be escorted by a warden to a prisoner bed. Prisoners can be escorted to a prisoner medical bed, if needed, without a risk of escape.
  • Prisoners can initiate social fights, both with colonists and other prisoners. Social fights with wardens are unlikely, as recruitment conversations quicky increase opinion.
  • Prisoners can be given any number of medical operations. This includes injecting drugs, installing artificial body parts, organ harvesting, and more.
  • Prisoners are valid targets for a gene extractorContent added by the Biotech DLC, subcore softscannerContent added by the Biotech DLC, or subcore ripscannerContent added by the Biotech DLC.
  • Prisoners can be sold to a faction base or slaver for silver, or a royal tribute collectorContent added by the Royalty DLC for honor. Colonists who do not like slavery will get a -3 moodlet, modified by ideoligionContent added by the Ideology DLC.
  • If a prisoner dies, the mood penalty depends on their cause of death. "Intentional" means, like violent combat, count as an execution.

Prison break[edit]

"Prisoners have staged a breakout! They've somehow defeated the door lock and are making their way out. They may seek weapons, fight, or try to escape."

Prisoners can escape via opens doors or gaps in the walls in their cell. In addition, prisoners also have a small chance to actively break out and escape. This is affected by the following factors:

  • The number of doors in their cell.
  • The Moving capacity of the individual prisoner.
  • Genes relating to aggression.Content added by the Biotech DLC
  • Number of prisoners. Prison break instances are rolled per prisoner, meaning that the more prisoners you have, the more likely a prison break is to happen in a given period, despite not directly affecting each individual prisoner's mean time between prison breaks.

Once it happens, all rooms within 20 tiles of the prisoner who started the prison break have a chance to join it. The original room will always join. Other rooms have a 50% chance to join. If a room does join, all prisoners in that room are affected too.

During a prison break, prisoners are able to open all doors. They will attempt[Under what conditions?] to equip and use weapons and weapon-like utility items such as orbital bombardment targeter.[Which?] Because of this, it is recommended to set armories far away from your prisons and watch out for any weapon dropped by your own pawns. Additionally, placing the exits away from the edge of the map will increase the time it takes for the escapees to exit the map.

Since prisoners are technically part of an enemy faction, any friendlies[Same faction?] on the map will engage them and your own pawns will react to them as specified by their Threat response. These reactions can be helpful if you need to contain a larger break, though the use of higher-powered weapons means they have a higher chance of outright killing the prisoner. Recapturing escaped prisoners from factions that have turned friendly since that prisoner was originally captured will not affect relations with that faction.

To contain a prison break while reducing the risk of killing the escaping prisoners, low damage weapons are recommended. Alternatively, brain implants that cause brain shockContent added by the Royalty DLC can be implanted in long term or particularly unruly prisoners, and EMP weapons used to down them instantly and safely.

Since prisoners are technically part of an enemy faction, any friendlies on the map will engage them. While this is potentially helpful to contain larger breaks, the use of proper weapons leads to a higher chance of outright killing the escapees. Recapturing escaped prisoners from factions that have turned friendly since that prisoner was originally captured will not affect relations with that faction.

Recruitment[edit]

In order to start recruitment, a target pawn must first be captured, and become a prisoner. Prisoners then must be set to "Recruit" (or "Reduce Resistance" and then "Recruit") in the "Prisoner" tab of their personal info box (bottom left of screen when pawn is selected).

Then colonists assigned to wardening will "chat" with the target prisoner. This can be repeated every several hours, each one reducing Resistance by a predictable amount (based on the Social pawn's Social skill and the target's Mood).

Starting resistance[edit]

Each prisoner has their own recruitment difficulty:

  • The maximum difficulty is 99%, while the minimum is 10%. The average is 50% with a standard deviation of 15%.
  • For each level of technology between your faction and the enemy's, the difficulty is increased by 16%. New Tribes have a harder time recruiting outlanders, for instance.
  • The storyteller will change the recruitment difficulty of prisoners depending on your existing population.

A prisoner's base resistance depends on their difficulty. At 10% difficulty, prisoners have no starting resistance. At 50%, they have 15. At 90%, they have 25. At 100%, they have 50.

This is multiplied by the storyteller's 'population intent' factor- the greater your population, the less the storyteller will want you to have an increase in population, and hence the higher the starting resistance. At -1 intent, the resistance is multiplied by 2. At 0, the resistance is multiplied by 1.5. At 1, the resistance is multiplied by 1. At 2, the resistance is multiplied by 0.8.

Finally, the resistance is multiplied by a random factor between 0.8 and 1.2.

Resistance reduction[edit]

A warden will reduce a base of 1.0 resistance per conversation. This is multiplied by:

Prisoner's opinion of the warden:

  • At -100 opinion, the resistance reduction factor is 50%.
  • At 0 opinion, the resistance reduction factor is 100%.
  • At 100 opinion, the resistance reduction factor is 150%.

Prisoner mood:

  • At 0% current mood, the resistance reduction factor is 20%.
  • At 50% mood, the resistance reduction factor is 100%.
  • At 100% mood, the resistance reduction factor is 150%.

Negotiation Ability:

Word of Trust[edit]

The Word of Trust psycast Content added by the Royalty DLC will reduce resistance by 20, multiplied directly by the prisoner's Psychic Sensitivity and no other factors.

Tips[edit]

Mood regulation[edit]

Increasing mood makes prisoners easier to recruit, and less likely to go berserk. If you want to increase prisoner mood, you can do the following:

Changing ideoligion[edit]

If you want to change the target's ideoligion, then instead try and make the prisoner upset. Lower mood reduces certainty gain, and may cause a Crisis of Belief extreme mental break, which reduces certainty by 50%. The following can help with decreasing mood:

  • Keep prisoners in a confined, dark space, without a bed or furniture. Even if there's only 1 prisoner, placing 2 sleeping spots will create a prison barracks.
  • Feed the pawn human meat, insect meat, raw food, or kibble. Certain ideoligions can make some of these foods more desirable, but kibble is never desirable to eat.
  • Keep them in pain. Inflicting injury comes at the risk of scarring or permanent damage, however, and a mindscrew Content added by the Royalty DLC cannot be removed by traditional methods once the pawn is converted. A torture crown is a risk free way of inflicting pain, but dressing prisoners has its own difficulties.

Keep in mind that crises of belief that would drop a pawn's certainty to or below 0%, will instead convert the pawn to a weighted randomly selected ideoligion with a new certainty. While this process might select the intended ideoligion, it may not while also requiring their certainty be reduced again. If a pawn's certainty is below 50%, consider improving their mood above their extreme mental break threshold to prevent this.

It is also worth considering the individual pawn when deciding on an approach. The first concern are the traits - many traits affect the Global Certainty Loss Factor of a pawn, which in turn affect the efficacy of conversion attempts by wardens. For pawns with a high factor, traditional conversion will be effective, while forcing a crisis of belief may be all but necessary. For further details, including a list of traits that affect the factor, see Certainty and Global Certainty Loss Factor.

The second concern are xenotypesContent added by the Biotech DLC with the Aggressive and Hyper-aggressive genes.Content added by the Biotech DLC Those with aggressive, including all yttakin,Content added by the Biotech DLC wasters,Content added by the Biotech DLC neanderthals,Content added by the Biotech DLC and sanguophages,Content added by the Biotech DLC are much more likely to have a berserk mental break, proportionally reducing the chances of a crisis of belief. Meanwhile those with hyper-aggressive will essentially never select the crisis, making pawns such as hussarsContent added by the Biotech DLC all but impossible to convert by crisis.

Prisoner suppression[edit]

Whenever they are berserk, under a prison break, or just escaping, sometimes you will need to subdue a prisoner. When berserk, prisoners will fight other prisoners, then will punch the weakest area (usually a door) to escape. When under a prisoner break, they can just open the door.

If you need to keep the prisoner alive, it is best to use low damage weapons and attacks - even just melee attacks with a gun or bare fists. Several unskilled pawns work better than 1 skilled one. For berserkers, you can have a skilled Construction pawn constantly repair the door. This trains Construction but is labor intensive. You can also wall the prisoner in, which will cause them to stop attacking the door and just wander around in their cell instead.

If free roaming animals are within the prison, then berserking prisoners will prioritize them over breaking out. You can place animal sleeping spots inside the prison for an automatic form of prisoner suppression. Note that animals are slightly more dangerous than humans. In addition, most animals will create a large amount of filth, quickly lowering the room's quality. You may want to use straw matting.

Unwanted prisoners[edit]

Enemies who have fallen in battle may not always be worth capturing in the first place. For example, a hostile with a shattered spine will require a bionic spine to replace, which may not be worth it. Unwavering prisoners can't be recruited normally, so fall under the same boat.

There are several ways to dispose of these prisoners:

  • Release: The least upsetting way to remove a prisoner. Colonists will not become upset if an enemy prisoner is released, and it may increase goodwill by a small amount.
  • Expendables: This is not exactly "getting rid of them", as much as making best (and ultimately temporary) use of them. Recruit them, and send them out for a long caravan that you wouldn't expend another colonist for. You can set them on a trading expedition, or scout a base/map. Or, you can use them as a meatshield. A "colonist" dying still gives a negative moodlet (-3, same as incidental death or non-guilty euthanasia), which is affected by opinion. Cut off their tongue to prevent social interaction from happening. Of course, unwavering prisoners can't be recruited.
  • Euthanasia: Execute in a more humane fashion by neck cut. This costs 1x herbal medicine (or better) and trains Medical experience. An 'innocent' prisoner going through euthanasia is less upsetting than an innocent execution.
  • Execution: Execute a prisoner in a raw manner. Those with an ideoligion favoring execution will enjoy it. With a fluid ideoligion, execution is a very easy way to gain development points (so long as it is Respected if Guilty).
  • Human resources: Use prisoners for their parts. Artificial limbs can be removed without penalty.
  • Selling: Prisoners can be sold for money at a faction base or slaver, or exchanged for honorContent added by the Royalty DLC from a royal tribute collector. Each sold prisoner gives -3 mood.

Version history[edit]

  • 0.8.657 - You can now release prisoners. This gains you goodwill from their faction.
  • 0.13.1135 - Prison breaks added.
  • 1.1 - Interface now reports the chance of a successful arrest before you try to make it.
  • 1.1.2570 - Escaping prisoners are no longer able to equip bladelinked or biocoded weapons.
  • 1.3.3066 - Prisoner escape chance is multiplied by the number of exits the prisoner has. Escaping prisoners will attack enemies with weapons they pick up, including orbital bombardment targeters, orbital power beam targeters, and tornado generators.
  • 1.4.3523 - Unwavering prisoners added. Fix: Resurrected executed prisoners retain the execute option and usually immediately get executed after being resurrected.
  • 1.4.3529 - Fix exploit: Unwaveringly loyal can be bypassed by enslaving prisoners. Fix exploit: Capture>Enslave>Imprison>Release recruits pawns immediately.
  • 1.4.3555 - Fix: Enslaving a pawn removes unwaveringly loyal. Fix: Unwaveringly loyal inspect pane text not appearing for slaves.
  • 1.4.3613 - Fix: Child prisoners attempt to wear adult clothing, causing it to disappear.
  • 1.4.3641 - Fix: Error on releasing space refugee prisoners.
  • 1.4.3682 - Fix: Dead calm pawns go berserk when arresting fails. Fix: Captured prisoners escaping from reformed caravans.
  • 1.5.4062 - Fix: The "run wild" mental break can occur on unwaveringly loyal pawns, causing them to be tameable. Unlisted change: Unwaveringly loyal prisoners can be converted to different ideologies.