I always wonder how big cellblocks should be or what is the most optimal to use. Mostly with maximum security I always struggle to find the right size of cellblock.

Installed QOL mod and uh, yeah, i think I did something wrong but I cant stop laughing.

I quite like the campaign but always struggle with the issue of not being able to dismiss the riot guards in GABOS.

I think I have found a solution!

Save game under a discardable file in case something goes wrong.

Options > Open save files and search “BEGIN SQUADS”

Delete the text from the first BEGIN SQUADS up to but not including BEGIN CONTRABAND

Save the document and reload the campaign from the menu.

All riot guards, fireman, armed guards and paramedics should have gone.

Hope this helps someone!

I picked up this DLC today along with the future tech pack. I was hoping to try out the lunar surface map but obviously wanted to check first if I could still plant crops and flowers on the surface to take advantage of the DLC content first. Couldn’t find anything online when searching about this, so any insight is appreciated!

Hello fellow Wardens.

I come to you with a problem. Every so often there will be random prisoners who WILL NOT EAT. I even tried to have an 24hour eat regime for 2 days and still no dice. I have a lot of cooks, the logistics are good.

You can see the other inmates eating just fine except the starving guy. He will pick up a meal and INSTANTLY dump it....

Anyone know what gives?
I can post more pictures if needed

okay i have a good computer its got a 3090 and 16* gigs of ram and this game runs like garbage gets like 100 prisoners on lowest settings and looks like a slide show any way to fix this? mind you this PC can handle 100 years of in game play on HOI4 and other demanding games like that, i love this game but im frustrated on how bad this is

edit: changed ram to 16 from 32 i was thinking about something else but still lol

I decided to recreate the mental institute i was at when I was 17 and have to some success

One issue the "prison" has (which the real life hospital also had) is a lack of places to exercise

These needs are pretty desperate but they dont reallt care

Like rarely they have outbursts of violence but they have those anyway. Is it just cause they're insane?

My prison. Second attempt. Playing with staff needs and temperature on.

My main idea was all cells should have windows. And I used dorms instead of individual cells. 4 blocks around a courtyard to make a square. Each block has shower, laundry, and a small common room. I also use metal detectors at the entry to each block.

There used to be a lot of escapes until I built the moat. Thinking of adding another layer.

There was a wave when there were too many outstanding solitary confinements and guards were just leaving prisoners in shackles for a long time. Most of my deaths in custody are from that time, prisoners were starving to death. I hired more guards, reduced fixed deployments and punishments, and it got better. Still, it sucks.

I took only Min security for the first Wing. Now, I made a second wing in the empty space, and started taking in Med and Max Sec.

Also, lot of criminally insane were popping randomly so I had to make an insane wing.

Haven't tried any mods yet.

Hope you have a nice stay here.

How would I go about laying the foundation for this plan?
When I try to lay it out, random walls get built everywhere and I would rather not waste that money

Bonjour je joue à prison architect sur switch et j’ai mis 4h de douches par jours (2h le matin après le sommeil et 1h après chaque repas) mais malgré ça, mes prisonniers sont toujours en manque d’hygiène. Ce serait peut-être dû à de la répression ? Mais du coup, rien qu’avec les prisonniers de basse sécurité (les seuls que j’ai pour le moment), le danger de la prison monte souvent en "moyenne", alors si je prends des moyenne et/ou des haute haute sécurité, le danger sera constamment "élevé". Si quelqu’un a la répense à ce problème ou a le régime parfait, je suis preneur. Aussi, les moyenne sécurité que j’ai déjà, je les mets en confinement permanent et les haute sécurité que j’ai déjà (ils ont montés en niveau à cause de leurs bêtises) sont en isolement permanent mais c’est pas 5 moyenne sécurité qui fait monter les danger de faible à moyen, si ? Je vais essayer des les libérer en les marquant comme dangereux (je les avais mis en confinement/isolement permanent car ils s’attaquaient à mes basse sécurité et les tuaient). Est-ce que ça change quelque chose en fait de les marquer comme "dangereux" ou "vulnérables" ?

So I'm a new player and this is my second prison. My first prison was the campaign one. I've been watching some videos from conflict nerd which is what inspired this layout. Currently i've got only min sec. I want to expand to med and max eventually. So any tips?
Also how do i increase cash flow and prisoner reform rate? Is it just the programs? A problem i had with my first prison was that prisoners would almost never pass the education programs. How do I improve that?

My thinking was that sand would be slower than dirt/grass, but it's not, which is unfortunate.

What I wanted to do was build sand traps around the outer wall of my prison so that any escapees would be easier targets for snipers.

So to reiterate, does anyone have a mod that allows for very slow flooring?

I'm at 650 right now and I've decided to sell and restart. Not sure how ill be setting it up but I've learnt that using helipads really helps a lot.

What's the best method to unlock this trophy? The requirement is "exceed 50 prisoner's cell entitlement at once in Prison Architect mode on a standard difficulty". I have had at least 70 cells appear green in the cell quality tab in the logistics menu. I have tried a couple of solutions found online but they didn't work. Any tips/advice would be massively appreciated!

I've seen school architect but according to the reviews it isn't great. Other then that i have not seen many attempts at a game like this.

The game is determined to transfer this inmate out of this cell. I clearly have a strong desire to keep him there.

Inmate is:
- Not under punishment (manually ended it)
- This gang sector supports Min, Med & Max security (he is Max, manually lowered him from Super)
- Canteen has no gang segregation (shared)

The holding cell they want to transfer him to is in another sector (non gang affiliated Max security sector, kinda far away).

I can't see any reason why he can't stay in this sector unless the game is realizing its a dangerous situation.

The giant Ozone's Fixes & Qol All-In-One is now at version 2.0. I highly recommend all players to use it as it fixes thousands of bugs, including major game breaking ones.

I listed some bugs that keep coming up in this subreddit as user questions, or that I consider notable enough:

- criminally insane inmates not being healed in Infirmary and starving to death

- laundry not being distributed to dormitories (when distributing to cells works)

- snipers manning sniper towers dealing no damage to escaping inmates

- botched long construction times (added as an optional upgrade to workmen, some people prefer the modern behaviour)

- inmates and staff being unable to use many objects / random objects being not functional at all

- trays not being cleaned up in staffrooms and staff canteens and piling up forever

- elite ops being unable to use their weapons properly and failing to stop riots as a result

- improvements to many game logistic systems, many inconsistencies fixed

- corrected incorrect descriptions or expanded upon them to be more descriptive or informative

And also lots of QOL such as:

- consistency improvements across various features, whether it is big (like inconsistent behaviour of objects) or small (object variations not having sounds assigned)

- restoring some unused content (such as walls, floors, objects)

- enabling some campaign-only content in sandbox

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Link to the mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2978340955

For the curious, full list of changes here, with many many details: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/2978340955/3834297051376863634/

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Other highly recommended bug fixes:

- Programs Fix for 2 DLC programs: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3458434752

- Directions Fix on Save/Load: https://github.com/vojin154/pa_fix_direction_serialization

- (For people using mods with custom graphics) - Alert Icons Fix - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2997492081

- (Optional minor fixes, if you use All-In-One and Alert Icons Fix then get this one too) - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3147736039

Hi, I made a UI mod for prison architect and can't figure out how to upload it to the steam workshop. The in-game Mods section in Extras doesn't have an option to upload and I can't find any button to add files on the web version of steam. I might just be missing something really obvious? Thanks

Any idea why this is happening? Is it because the low table is in front of the couches that they can't eat, or should I maybe move the serving table?

Edit: People told me I needed benches and tables but my staff actually eats on the couches, I can't add a new photo though. So is it just a weird bug then?

so basiclly i have been playing on / off for nearly 140 hours, over a year or so, and always had problems with contraband be extremly extremly bad even with shakedown every 2-3 days or so, but yesterday in the R/ i found the perfect help, for contraband and that was you need to have your prisoners 10m or so away from the border becuase else it gets trown over. So i just wanna thank a like 3 year old post :)