In Aeternum, if you commit a crime and are caught, you are not sent to the traditional jail holding cells. You are sent to one of three prisons. When you are sent to prison, if you were mounted, you are unmounted and all of your tamed animals are sent to the stables. All items you are wearing or carrying with you are placed in a pouch and that pouch is placed in your bank. Your kill counts are also set to 0 and your criminal status is removed. The amount of points you have to work off are also generated at that time.

You are then sent to the prison and given a prison pickaxe:

Here you will find a book explaining how everything works as well.
If you type .prisonpoints you will be shown how many points you have left to work off.
If you should lose your prison pickaxe, double click the prison pickaxe box to get a new one.

To begin working off your debt to society, just start hacking away at the ground and walls. Each item you mine up will reduce your prison points. The gems and ore will be deleted immediately, so your pack will not become full.

Once you have worked off all your points, you will see a message and will be able to return to the mainland.

When returning to the mainland, everything you have in your pack, or are wearing or carrying will be deleted automatically. You will be relocated to Britain Bank.

Try to stay out of trouble!!