Prison

Learn how to effectively use the Prison in Dungeon Keeper to manage creatures, subdue heroes, and even generate Skeletons. Essential tips for any aspiring Keeper!

Alright, so you've stumbled upon the Prison room in Dungeon Keeper. Think of it as your dungeon's holding cell and interrogation chamber all rolled into one. It costs 225 gold per tile to build and has a research value of 20000. You can access it quickly using the shortcut key Shift + P.

The main purpose of the Prison is twofold: keeping your own creatures out of trouble and, more importantly, holding captured heroes. To actually imprison heroes, you'll need to enable the "Imprison" option under the "?" icon in your left-hand menu. If you have one of your own creatures causing a ruckus, you can also stick them in here temporarily. While they're in the Prison, they won't head to the Hatchery and they're safe from any pesky enemy Keepers trying to scavenge them. Just a heads-up, creatures in the Prison will start moaning, which slowly drains their health over time.

Now, for some fun interactions: certain creatures, like Spiders, love to mess with the prisoners by using their Freeze spells. Also, if a humanoid creature dies in your dungeon, there's a chance a Skeleton might rise from their remains – pretty neat, right? Any gold the prisoner was carrying will also be dropped when they die. Be careful though, if you cram too many creatures into a small Prison, you might trigger an outbreak, leading to prisoners escaping. Nobody wants that!

Want to stir the pot? You can toss chickens into the Prison to watch your inhabitants fight over the scraps. If your Imps drag heroes or enemy creatures to the Prison, you can use your Keeper hand to pick them up and move them. The usual move is to drag them to the Torture room to break them down, but that's a whole other can of worms we'll get into later.