Do you always go to Prison Depths / Corrupt Prison, or skip them?

[The Old Song]

Naturally when trying to get the blueprints from the speedrun rooms you'd skip them but once you already have those I don't imagine accessing speed doors outweighing a whole area. Do y'all go through these zones every run for the extra cells and scrolls, or do you often skip for some reason I imagine you'll share?

[Phirestar]

I'll occasionally skip them, in the event that the particular build that I'm using at that time is something that I feel won't do well in those biomes. With how much the difficulty of 5BC has been nerfed, over the past couple of years, the difference in one less scroll makes little impact on the chance of a successful run, in my eyes.

I miss the days when the Prison Depths made a difference of two stats, and that meant you might end up under-powered for the final boss. Back when scroll count legitimately mattered on 5BC, and choosing to skip some would've been a preposterous idea.

[feral paddy ape]

It still is often 2 stats since there is an overwhelmingly high chance of a challenge rift spawning there.

[Leviathan]

Normally. I always go because of what was mentioned and because... it's really fun. I see no reason to skip whatsoever.

Lately I had the terrible (but fun) idea of playing on custom mode at 5BC with all the gameplay modifiers enabled (from FOLLOW THE LIGHT to ADAPTATION) and a few others (Things like 99 enemy curse chests and 11 mutation limit) and curses are even deadlier than I thought so I think I won't go there while I keep playing that mode.

[kermat_]

Pre-2BC: skip
2BC: your choice; take if you're struggling with damage late-game or if you're stuck in 2BC
Post-2BC: take

[Hodman]

Always go to one or the other.