Guide to the Labor Camp

This guide is up to date as of 2023/5/17.

Security Guide to Using the Gulag

1. Take cuffed prisoner to labor camp teleporter (AKA telegulag)
2. Make sure you put all their items (INCLUDING THEIR ID) ON them, the telegulag will automatically strip and store it, don't leave things lying around on ground!! Except contraband, make sure you take that obviously.
3. Put cuffed prisoner in telegulag, click on it to close it
4. If they try to be funny and don't cooperate (they can instantly resist out of the telegulag even while cuffed), just stun them
5. Click on the console next to the telegulag, hit "lock" to lock the telegulag shut. Now they can't resist out of it instantly.
6. Take a prisoner ID and put it in the console
7. Set a point target
8. Make sure to say, "Glory to Nanotrasen."
9. Hit "process prisoner" and they will be teleported down to gulag.

They can automatically get their items back once they do their point sentence and come back up; on some maps they can even let themselves out. HOWEVER, make sure you go onto the actual gulag shuttle and get the materials! Then go insert them into the seclathe.

The telegulag is a great tool when you have to deal with mobs or riots or just generally processing a lot of people. Once you learn how to do it quick it requires a LOT less time than individually brigging someone, and it also keeps track of their items much more effectively, since things tend to get lost when the brig gets busy.

Prisoner's Guide to Being Gulagged

1. Welcome to the labor camp, scum. Make sure to let out a mournful sigh and perhaps hum a working man's tune. Then get to work!
2. If it's not already down, go ahead and call the gulag shuttle down. Then use the "point claim console" in the wall on the prisoner side of the shuttle to check your points requirement, and how much different materials are worth.
3. First things you are going to need: Breath mask and oxy tank (found in the blue internals crate)
4. Next up: get a manual mining scanner, ore satchel, and of course your trusty pickaxe! Optionally you can also take a flashlight and pair of mesons. Turn those internals on, go out the airlock, and get to work!
5. You are gonna have to manually press Z to use the scanner. Find the nearest ores and start mining towards them. Remember that you can click on several tiles with the pickaxe at once to mine more at the same time, and that rarer materials are worth more points!
6. Remember that if it starts to ash storm outside, you need to get your ass back inside!
7. Once you have a good amount of ores, go back inside to the smelter. IMPORTANT: YOU HAVE TO SMELT THE ORES FOR THEM TO BE WORTH ANY POINTS!! Stand in front of the "unloading machine" and drop the ores onto the ground, it will automatically pick them up.
8. Flip the switch on the conveyor belt.
9. Finally you have to use the "production machine console". For each ore you are smelting, you have to select it (by pressing the button that says "not smelting" so that it says "smelting") and then scroll down and turn it on. It starts on iron by default. Note that after it finishes smelting one material, it will turn back off.
10. If you have a bunch of materials, use one of the crates around to move them to the gulag shuttle. You then have to insert them into the "stacking machine" by either clicking on it or just dropping/dragging the materials in front of the machine.
11. Go to the "point claim console" and hit claim points, if you have enough then hit move shuttle. If you don't, go mine some more!
12. Once you are able to send the shuttle up, make sure to stay on board until it launches.
13. When you get back to station, exit the shuttle and go to the blue "equipment reclaimer station" in the wall and click on it, then hit "retrieve items" next to your name. Some maps let you exit by yourself, others don't, ask security or the AI to let you out if you have to!