Jail

Jail
Release date	31 July 2017
Location	Rykipohja (Only visible when serving time)
Inhabitants	Player (If arrested)
Toilet?	Yes
Features	• Punishes criminal behavior by wasting the player's time • Long sentences serve as a soft game-over
Coordinates	X: -656 Z: -1154

The player can go to jail (: vankila) if they don't pay their outstanding fines (including fines for environmental crimes caused by dumping sludge from the tank of the Gifu), fail to stop at a traffic stop, fatally run over someone, punch someone unconscious, or kill a driver by crashing into a car.

The jail cell is a single room with a bunk bed, chair, table, toilet bowl, radio and a TV. While short sentences are mostly inconveniences, the jail also serves as a soft game-over as longer sentences could potentially be many real-time hours long. The player will eventually be released from jail once their sentence is over, spawning at the bus stop in front of Teimo's shop. A one-day sentence is over after about two hours of playing time.

There is no way to access the jail realistically due to there being no road or outside connections to it. The player cannot leave the jail at any time until their sentence is over, as previously mentioned. Even if they do escape the cell through the use of mods or any other exploit, the cops will still be waiting for the player at their house and Teimo's shop to take them back.

There are various sounds in the jail, like people talking and sounds of movement, suggesting that the player is housed at a fairly large facility.

The player will receive a food tray twice a day every day at 12:00 and 18:00. The tray contains pea soup, salad, bread, milk, and cigarettes. It is also possible to drink from the toilet bowl. The player won't receive the food tray if they are asleep.

The player will get released between 6:00 and 18:00 after serving their last day ("jail days" bar shows 0). You will hear the door being unlocked, and the screen will turn black. After that, the player gets teleported to the bus stop in Peräjärvi.

On the run

If the player manages to successfully escape from jail, the jail days will pause. Additionally, the cops will still be waiting at the player's house and at Teimo's shop, waiting to take the player back to jail. This makes the player unable to use the phone to receive jobs, unable to buy anything from the shop, not even fuel. (The fuel pumps are locked, so stealing fuel is also out of the question.)

The player will be limited to the supply they have stocked up beforehand. While the player can theoretically stock up an unlimited amount of two-stroke fuel for the Jonnez ES and the boat, the gas and diesel can only be stored in their respective jerry cans, greatly limiting the amount of fuel that can be stocked up.

The player can set up an alternate base at the cottage or ventti house (if it has been won). Both places are self-sufficient with firewood, a water well and a place to cook food. They're also close to the water where the player can use the fish trap. However none of the locations has a fridge, so food that doesn't get eaten will expire fast. The cottage has a sauna that can be used to reduce stress, while the ventti house can be accessed without a boat.

On the run it's hard to make money. Most repeatable jobs require the player to access their home to answer the phone and/or Teimo's shop to buy supplies (and eventually replenish fuel). The only repeatable job on the run is picking strawberries.

While surviving on the run is technically possible, most activities becomes unavailable for the reasons mentioned. The supplies will eventually run out, while the cops will be waiting for you as long as they need to. This makes being on the run a miserable experience that will last until the player finally decides to return to jail and finish their sentence.

Jail sentences

• Evasion: failure to stop for a police officer is a 3-day sentence for each evasion attempt.
• Traffic fatality: colliding with another vehicle so that its driver dies is a 5-day sentence for each casualty.
• Attempted manslaughter: punching an NPC unconscious with your fists results in a 2-day sentence. Exception applies to the drunk fighter, who will not press charges against you when beaten.
• Manslaughter: running over someone so he dies is a 10-day sentence for each casualty.
• Unpaid fine: failing to pay fines results in a sentence with a length based on the day fine quantity (instead of the total sum) of all fines combined.
• All crimes are combined when calculating the final length of a sentence.

Notes

• If the fine on the kitchen table does not show the icon to pay it, this means that the police are about to appear at the player's house to arrest him.
• Dying in the jail with permadeath turned off will make the player character respawn back in jail. This also applies if the player dies after having successfully escaped.
• If the player somehow gets drunk enough to pass out while in jail, they won't get teleported to a random spot on the map like usual. Instead, they will wake up still in their cell.
• Sleeping in jail counts towards imprisonment time but saving and then reloading (which also advances time) doesn't, So you can't abuse save/reload to shorten your time in jail.
• You can drink from the jail's toilet the same way as from other water sources - by leaning into it. The player will make retching sounds, similar to when pumping septic tanks.
• Ironically, Stress is decreased while in jail. Hey, two free meals a day, a warm bed, free TV, no drunk drivers trying to kill you, and no wasps – other than the fact that there's nothing to do but wait for your sentence to end, it's a pretty easy life.
• You cannot use the test screen on the jail TV to increase your fatigue.
• Cigarettes can be used to slightly decrease hunger.
• The pea soup, salad, and milk do not spoil over time.
• After 10 days in the jail, the player will tattoo his hands. You cannot remove these tattoos without editing your save file or using mods.
• The time can be found in the top right of Teksti-TV

Trivia

• The physical location for the jail is behind a treewall south of the airfield, though it is only visible when serving time.
• Lore-wise, the jail might be placed far away from Peräjärvi, presumably somewhere else in Alivieska, considering the jail's implied large size and the fact it's so far from Peräjärvi the player has to be brought back to the urban area by bus.
• You can escape jail by taking the rear seat or sofa with you, and then putting it outside the cell to sleep there. However, this will pause the sentence until the player is back in jail. Entering the area under the jail cell will teleport the player to the house, with arrest warrant officers at the door.
• You can get arrested if somebody near you kills somebody.

The outside of the jail.

Tattoos on player's hand