Reference

Prison server glossary

Prison has more jargon than any other Minecraft gamemode, most of it undocumented. Here is the lot.

Progression

Rankup

Spending money to move from one lettered mine to the next, usually /rankup.

A to Z

The twenty-six standard mines, in ascending value.

Free rank

A rank granted on first join rather than sold, often /freerank.

Prestige (P)

Resetting your rank to A for a permanent bonus. P1, P2 and so on.

Rebirth (R)

Resetting your prestige count for a larger permanent bonus. R1, R2 and so on.

Prestige mine

A mine only reachable at a given prestige, usually far more valuable.

The pickaxe

Custom enchant

A server-added pickaxe enchant, bought with tokens or money, levelled far past vanilla.

Token

The secondary currency most servers use for pickaxe enchants.

Proc

An enchant firing. "Proc chance" is how often it triggers per block or per swing.

AoE

Area of effect. An enchant that breaks a region rather than one block.

Autosell

An enchant or perk that sells mined blocks instantly, skipping the sell chest.

Bomb / nuke / explosive

Names for the large AoE block-breaking family.

Economy

Sell price

What a block is worth. The single most important number on the server.

Multiplier

A percentage boost to sell price, from ranks, crates, gangs, boosters or the store.

Booster

A temporary multiplier, often server-wide when someone activates one.

Sink

Anything that removes money from the economy. Rankups, enchants, key shops.

Backpack / PV

Extra storage. /pv is a common command for it.

Keyall

Staff granting a crate key to every online player at once.

Social and combat

Gang

A player group with a shared bank and levelled perks. Also crew, clan or team.

Plot

Claimed land in the plot world, for storage, shops or building.

Warp

A named teleport, typically /warp mine or /warp pvp.

Full drop

A PvP zone where death costs your inventory.

1.8 PvP

Pre-1.9 combat mechanics, with no attack cooldown. Still the prison standard.

Server life

Season / reset

A scheduled wipe of progress, usually with a new feature set.

OP prison

Prison with heavily scaled numbers. See OP vs classic.

Classic prison

Prison at close to vanilla sell values, where the A to Z ladder is the whole game.

P2W

Pay to win. Whether the store sells things you cannot otherwise earn.

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Next in the prison wiki

• How Minecraft prison servers work The mine, the sell command, the rankup, the plot world and the PvP warp: the five things every prison server is built from.
• Prison ranks, prestige and rebirths explained A to Z is the tutorial. Prestige resets your rank for a multiplier, rebirth resets your prestige for a bigger one, and that loop is the real game.
• Prison pickaxe enchants: what each family actually does Custom prison enchants fall into four families: block breaking, money, utility and proc-chaining. Knowing which is which tells you where to spend.
• Prison economies: sell prices, multipliers and inflation Every prison economy is one ratio, sell price against rankup cost, and one failure mode, multiplier inflation with no sink.