I am on the verge of rage quitting. Before starting this guide, it is highly recommended that you complete the campaigns first. They will rest and sit on sofas, use recreational objects, and they will also eat here if there is no staff canteen nearby and there is a Serving Table in the room. I have the same problem with 90 guards for 140 prisoners. Then I don't have people covering post. The kitchen is only used for sending cooks for cleaning trays in the staff room/canteen assigned to it. Radiator generates heat up to 20°C (68°F), excluding the tile on which radiator is placed which has 21°C (69°F). Yes I do have micromanagement researched. Dead prisoners stack more guard jobs, meaning. thanks for the help but it is under shared and still nothing is happening : (. Staff needs is an installment into prison architect that make staff have needs. Rest: The Staff Member is tired and needs to take a break. thanks for the help but it is under shared and still nothing is happening : (. Thanks. Prison Architect. When the bar has depleted, a staff member will cease their activity and head to a nearby staff room in order to recover their energy to work again. Please fix the prison element of this bug simulation game. Everything else can just be benches. There are a few steps to a well run prisoner canteen assignment. I did that with the prison architect calculator, which show me exactly how many of each item. Yes, the food is fully stocked. Not getting food ingredients has been reported several times on discord and it seems that it's just buggy at the moment. Click image for larger version. #13. #10. my staff canteens are well stocked already. Door Control Systems - reduces the need for guards to run around and. In the logistics you can see how many foods are needed for each of the canteens. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. IN A NON-STAFF NEEDS PRISON: Press ESCAPE to pause and go to Main Menu, click. Originally posted by abama221: I had this problem, build more seats for the staff. Female Prisoners will spend a lot of time in this room as well as eating there. jamesc70 Aug 8, 2013 @ 10:46am. Anyways, I guess you know how to deal with it now so let's end this here lol. Before I got fed up with staff needs being so weird, I had some success making sure they eat in a staff canteen (Just a canteen marked as staff only) instead of the break room. Staff food comes in by truck (cooks don't prepare it). So both serving tables in these rooms are being ignored. both areas are shared. Creating a holding cell for Protective Custody only, while there are no holding cells for "shared" will work too. This is how the game is codded: put something to the delivery boxes > send to prison > unpack > tell the staff to move to specific room > grabbed by prisoner. no need benches, chairs and sofas are enough. Check the staff canteen: Staff Room next to my staff canteen. Gym. Managing the prison isn't an easy task and that's why this guide was created. Felyne • 1 yr. Dipply Oct 19, 2015 @ 8:19pm. Noticed that the staff are not eating in the staffroom or the staff canteen. Prison Architect. Take your prison to the next level with fixes and upgrades thanks to the Free for Life update! Prison Architect: Free for Life Key Features: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks - After spending an extended period of time in your prison, inmates will change both visually and functionally, developing different needs compared to younger ones. This is the only thing keeping my prison from running flawlessly right now. Try using deployments to set different canteens to Min Sec Only,. Completed license. Yes, it works. I do have a staff room, and I do have a serving table in it. This is optional, as this adds an extra challenge to the game. Prison Architect. make toilets for your staff but make sure you do not assign the toilets within the Staffroom Room area. I. If you build multiple and all have the same security level, then the game may become confused about which canteen to use. The meal quantity will affect the amount of food each hungry prisoner will consume and therefore the amount of meals your Cooks will have to prepare. You could make it so their patrols spend time inside and outside. ago. So as several players have noticed. The Staff Member will seek out a toilet in the Staff Room (or any staff-only sector) when taking a break. it doesnt seem to work the other way around for some reason. I don't know if that'll work with the extreme cold, but it's worth a shot. Every other office mark as "Staff Only" If you made a whole block of offices, divide psychologist's ofgice and the other ones, using. Prison Labour allows you to use your prisoners to work around your prison (cooking, cleaning, and workshop duty) saving you on staff wages, earning you money, and teaching your prisoners new skills at the same time. He complains about the inhumane way. ). It may seem absurd when running your prison, but having too much security can actually cause more problems. Policy must be unlocked in the bureaucracy screen. Then about 65% of that in reserve in the kennels. Even the few guards standing around in there aren't eating. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. Usually the AI does an adequate job at figuring this out on its own, but sometimes you need to set this up manually. Officially there is a bug . Sergeant. Prison Architect: Gangs is a content DLC for Prison Architect. Increase the amount of equipment in your kitchen. The capacity of a dormitory is 1 prisoner per 4 squares, with 1 exception. While working in a laundry room, prisoners will sometimes take all the Laundry Baskets. chalked. WHEN STARTING A PRISON: Toggle the Staff Needs button in the "Create Prison" menu. Almost 3000 hours playing the unupdated prison architect mobile. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. Or you can designate a canteen as "Staff Only" and they will eat there instead. When opening the deployment menu an overlay is activated that shows the designations,. 10. Trays not cleaned usually means that you need more cooks. Inmates are granted a parole. Well the problem is that in my prison every cell-area has got his own canteen. 3) Distance seems to play. Generally I use anywhere between 1 cooks per 3 cookers (2 hour meals, canteen next to kitchen), to a 1:1 ratio (1 hour meals, canteen 60-70 squares from the kitchen). By default, the staff canteen should have priority -- I also have no explanation, that they are not using the staff room for example, where sofas also exist. When zoning you can zone areas where only low, medium, or high security are allowed or shared (any security). Why they keep ordering this when it's not being us is a mystery to me. Prison Economics (Silver): Complete every Grant available to one prison in Prison Architect mode on a standard. That also had the bonus of fewer trays all over the place. Death Row prisoners are a type of prisoner that wears black. !!!! We've been trying to work. This has happened in multiple prisons in a row. Like every good tycoon, it requires a well-thought strategy and long-term plans, as well as a deep analysis of the game mechanics. During specific periods, they will not leave the area that activity is in. Staff rooms, unlike canteens or staff canteens, do not automatically connect to a kitchen. However, Food Trays are still needed and handled as usual by cooks. It's been 2 in game days now, didn't work. try moving your serving tables 1 square towards the canteen, and adding a wall. a) reduce the Yard to the reasonable size, put the lake on the yard to lower the yard-tiles count to stop that guards roaming there (the more yard tiles the more natural guard tendency to roam around) b) no guards on the cell blocks / common room / canteen - use Orderlies. First of all, as suggested: Check Deployment menu and deactivate any security restrictions based on the canteen (the kitchen can still be staff only) Then, after you have done that: Unlock from bureaucracy the Logistics menu and make sure there is a YELLOW route leading from. Click on the Foundations tool and select the Building Sub-Button to create the Office Building. I have one large kitchen between two canteens separating max and medium security. Once it begins to pile up just use the "Sell Objects" tool and run it across your Workshop. removed the "staff only" from it, then prisoners would come in and clean the trays in the room, but cooks would not (at least, not that I've caught them doing so). By KARR™. Hire more cooks. Building a Prison is the aim of the game and where the premise of Prison Architect is set. Originally posted by lissa_981:Status Effects. #1. You don't need a canteen because the food for staff members comes from outside the prison. The guards won't want to work there if they're constantly cold or the prison regime is poor and the prisoners never use the toilet (put a toilet in each canteen, btw) so they're walking in waste all day. Joe Dorito Mar 2, 2014 @ 12:28pm. This room functions to re-energize your tired Staff members. Viewed 123k times. Along with the mod Tweaked Staff Food, it also has a thirst need and water fountain. Staff will only eat on their break time. Staff does not eat. Once unlocked, you get access to the Deployment tab in the menu bar, which offers a bunch of selections: There, select "Staff Only", and click on the area you want to change: This means that only staff are allowed to enter. This way a prisoner will get assigned to a qualitative better cell in the correct wing. Prison Architect. Make one of your more centralised staffrooms large enough to have canteen equipment (tables etc) AND a kitchin sink (s) 3. It’s tempting to have armies of well-armed guards roaming the hallways, but doing so will raise the danger level of the prison which can be an issue. Not sure if everyone has this problem but I always have a staff canteen (Canteen designated for staff only) but I have always had the problem where food trays pile up without getting washed. #3. Completely separating the canteen from the staff room by a tile (or wall in my own case) completely negated this bug and prevented it. One of our inmates has been put on suicide watch, Henry Morgan, Benedict's partner in crime. 0 | First draft. #2. The Snack machine improves the room grade of the following rooms: Canteen. . Other then that use the logistics and use food deployment, red dot are for prisoners to go to canteen yellow are from kitchen to canteen, make sure prisoners go to canteen not to kitchen, and kitchen are assigned to canteen. ago. Deployment is a menu that allows you to deploy your guards, doctors and cooks to be stationed or work in specific areas or rooms, prioritise areas for guards, cleaners or gardeners, set up patrols and designate areas for certian security types or staff only. Modified 11 months ago. Increase the amount of equipment in your kitchen. To get the perfect kitchen and canteen, you need to plan ahead. Canteen and Kitchen don't have to be disconnected with a wall. So these abandoned food trays are just sitting there, and they arent being picked up again or cleaned or dumped. No one is cleaning them up. It also directly translates to a better chance of reform. I just had to put all the canteen stuff in the Staff Room and eliminate an actual Staff Canteen Room! Now, the cooks are not washing the dirty trays and restocking the trays at the service table fast enough! Sometimes a half day will pass. 2. These needs can include hygiene, food, comfort, recreation and luxury. Make sure every staff room has multiple toilets. #1. ago. I had it before and i fixed it by connecting it selecting the cell block and connecting to the canteen. Noob_yolo • 6 yr. Prisoners can be assigned to work in the shop. I have enough free guards and the Protective wing. No Food Delivery - Help Please : (. Click image for larger version. Needless to say the workers who handle the food delivery despite you needing to link a kitchen, ignore this area all. 1. This great looking artwork was created by Morten Elgaard Pedersen. I built a whole new prison (unlimited funds) and included a staff canteen. Key Features:Customized ConfinementAllocate resources to optimize your compound, but don’t restrict the flow of the crowd lest you encounter a flood, fire, fight, or full-blown riot. You can expand it past 2 as well, 3, 4, 5 canteens works easily, set one up for Protective Custody, one for Supermax, no problem. The optimum size of a canteen is 11x9 squares (10x9 also works fine). Besides that, you should consider looking for cell block/canteen problems, connecting cell blocks to canteens and so on. I. It worked pretty good, until i finished my 4th canteen. Below are some options for even the simplest prison: Make a separate kitchen and canteen with their own equipment and staff. Using the "Deployment" tab, which is accessable through the "Warden > Security > Deployment", you can set permissions for each room. Bump. They rarely use toilets and serving table and complain there standing and pissed off. Made it quite large to accommodate my staff numbers. Prison Architect : Basic Building. During shower time, prisoners will not leave the "shower" areas in your prison, during "eat" time, prisoners will not leave the canteen areas in your prison, etc. It also fulfills a prisoners 'freedom' need and several others if relevant objects are placed. It often is one of the first rooms built in your prison, as you can save money over individual cells. #1. Dirty Trays Everywhere = SOLVED (partially) Okay, I have posted this problem before but never got a clear answer of why it starts to happen. You can also rotate cloned parts with [ R ] key. Today my prison architect was updated and this began to happen. [Solved] Staff food need / Cleaning trays. Do not have a staff canteen (that seems to be a root of the bug) 2. Vote count: 1. Hire: $1,000. They can be male or female depending on the prison you are working. Keep in mind that a prisoner will only be more content if a cell is "better than average". It was announced on 2022-06-01 [1] and was released on 2022-06. Without clean trays, guards can't pick up a meal. By: murgh. (see Section 06e) Update 12 added an overall "staff morale". 71 ratings. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. A subreddit dedicated to the game Prison Architect, developed by Introversion Software and sold to Paradox Interactive. The Execution room is the final location where a prisoner on Death Row will be executed in accordance with their sentence. We expect to receive hotfixes in the upcoming days so hopefully this is fixed. If they are locked up between 10pm to 8am they. Prison Architect - Support & Bug reports. (edited by A Fandom user) 0. The weird thing is that some do. And this is the result of that: Deliveries area. How to make staff canteens work. for some reason over-occupied guards means the cooks dont wash trays (?) guards get hungry, get angry, start killing prisoners. If the kitchen also supplies a staff canteen with 1 serving table in it, there should be a 3rd sink and an 11th cook. Wait and Hope (Silver): Unlock all Bureaucracy items in Prison Architect mode on a standard difficulty. 2) Cooks don't clean up trays during eating time - regardles of security level. Jeffrypig_23 • 6 yr. There are a few steps to a well run prisoner canteen assignment. Even the few guards standing around in there aren't eating. Food: The Staff Member is Hungry. There are some prisoners eating but I couldn't find out the difference between them. Left click and hold the clock to move it around, if it gets in the way. up Mar 2, 2014 @ 12:35pm. orb Mar 6, 2017 @ 4:45am. Note: Due to a bug, staff canteens may run out of trays from time to time,. Tim110590 Feb 14 @ 9:59am. After my original post, I experimented and after I did 2 things. Showing 1 - 2 of 2 comments. Begineer's guide to Prison Architect [ENG/PL] By Roczo and 2 collaborators. Prison Architect “no canteens accessible by this cell” is usually caused by security risks and you need to address them at the earliest opportunity. MisterSpock Sep 10, 2016 @ 6:58am. He takes a tray but drop it because he has break time at 00:00 (for 90 minutes), and because his break time finished at 1:30, he will. They hold up the break rotation for everybody else, which pisses them off. Before you research it, you can feed your staff by putting serving tables in staff rooms, then staff snacks will be delivered to your prison and brought to the serving table. However, Food Trays are still needed and handled as usual by cooks. glory Jul 18, 2020 @ 12:27pm. Way too many staff meals bug. marco. Requirements: Objects: Bench / Bench (Small) / Bench (Oak) / Diner Booth Table / Table (Small) / Table (Oak) / Dining table (Large) / Dining table (Small) / Diner Booth Serving Table / Serving Table (Small) Other: Nearby Kitchen Other: Improvement: Size 20 Squares Fan Drink Machine Prison Architect • How to Assign Prisoners to a Canteen Advance management will guide prisoners to the set canteens and help with prisoner safety. 2. I use wooden doors out to the canteen then usually a staff door into the kitchen itself as it generally works in my layout for food delivery that they don't have to walk through the rioting canteen. Despite the fact that it doesn't have any size limits, you should dedicate a considerable amount of space for it, mainly because of the fact that during the meal time (see: Order of the day) all the prisoners, as one man, will come here to eat. District Message on Interim Reports - NSMS Interim Reports are week of Oct. I made a post here that says what to do:. Seems to fix a lot of PA problems. make a canteen set it to staff only it becomes staff canteen. A cook is a staff member responsible for keeping your prisoners fed. This is further elevated if a gang controls the area. 124 votes, 62 comments. . It can be temporarily fixed by moving the seats around in the staff room, but it will eventually happen again. Ahloz Dec 20, 2017 @ 5:31pm. My kitchen staff are standing around doing nothing. Btw door tiles must not be zoned. ago I put them near the staff room. A cook must wash the dirty trays in a sink and put them back on the serving table. EDIT: couch = Sofa. Also please double check in the food distribution menu that a kitchen is connected to the staffroom/staff canteen so that the trays will be collected and replaced. Yes, I have logistics and Micro Management unlocked No, nothing prevents them from entering the canteen, neither objects nor the sectors (the path from the cell block to the canteen is shared)Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. Make sure the prisoners have access to the canteen, meaning make sure you dont have staff only arreas blocking the path. Yes, it works. Prison Architect. #1. Prisoners needing exercise will jog laps around the perimeter of the Yard or use the Weight Benches. Well the problem is that in my prison every cell-area has got his own canteen. Prisoners will use phones during yard, meal, and free time if you have phones available. The only 'trick' should be corectly set logistics (shift + click) and having good access to the rooms. Harmpie Oct 8, 2020 @ 6:29am. Click on the Foundations tool and select the Building Sub-Button to create the Office Building. Are both canteens connected to your kitchen in the Logistics/Food diatribution view? #1. In many cases, if you zone canteens in the halls of cell blocks, you ruin the cell block's functioning. High quality meals give you a well fed bonus, which results in better behaved prisoners, more intrest in reform programs and a higher pass rate. ). Once it begins to pile up just use the "Sell Objects" tool and run it across your Workshop. I'm about to simply start dumping them, but this is. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect. CDMundo Sep 22, 2022 @ 9:40pm. Prison Architect. These are like prisoner needs, but instead of getting angry, they get annoyed and don't work as well as they should. AHHhhh, that was the problem. This mechanic works. Prisoners do not go to the toilet (or fulfill any other needs) when working, toilets in Workshops, Library, Kitchen don't do anything. Common Rooms or hallways without room designations don't have this effect. High quantity meals are composed of 3. Check logistics and ensure that your staff room is connected to a kitchen. make a canteen set it to staff only it becomes staff canteen. Staff Entrance/Security Office. Just from playing today I discovered new bugs. Do not benefit: Solitary – All this needs is a 1×1 room, and a solid door, nothing else. Needs are what Prisoners require in order to behave in a conduct deemed appropriate and manageable. #2. I've seen in most discussions about the staff canteens and how everyone thinks its a bug, but it isnt, and its really easy, link a. Shop. So for instance, if the only hallway you have between your cells and your canteen is marked 'no access. Staff members are an imperative type of entity that must be hired in order for your prison to function correctly. I have been playing a new prison and everything was fine until all of a sudden my staff have stopped eating. Fewer workers to build and repair stuff and other. For example, you could have their patrol start in the yard and pass through the canteen and back out to the yard. Cooks carry stacks of ingredients into the kitchen(s) from the delivery zone and storage room them in a fridge. So, in more specific: Prisoner A (Med Sec) goes to the canteen at 8am to get his breakfast. Last edited by Jack Kelso; Jun 28, 2017 @ 4:10am < > Showing 1-10 of 10 comments . Hunger. Staff can now have the same needs as prisoners. These include: Tables ( Table, Table (Small), Table (Oak),. The solution to fix this is to check your sinks and if the trays are still on the todo take to sink, but already there, you have to dump them for a cook to continue cleaning trays. Prison Architect. Prison Architect. Can i put a Serving table down, and from one side i have the Coooks come in and pout food down, and on the other priosners can take the food? You know, kinda. So your. Not sure what to do. Croatian Corporal. Front Page News CANTEEN: Oct. Change your staff canteen to a staff room. Radiator. the staff canteen and staff room. Without clean trays, guards can't pick up a meal. Harmpie Oct 8, 2020 @ 6:29am. The canteen reads "staff canteen". all 4 cell blocks actually do share other areas so placing a staff-only zone in between is not an option. ago. Begineer's guide to Prison Architect [ENG/PL] By Roczo and 2 collaborators. Share. #2. I do think it's the trays because there is loads of them left in the canteen with eaten food. Mail rooms and laundry don't add to contraband, so regular doors are probably fine for them. Prisoner D (Max Sec) gets food from a guard at 10am. Nov 6, 2022. Staff meals are delivered, not cooked on-site. Joe Dorito Mar 2, 2014 @ 12:28pm. But i am thinking as secure as possible for my newest prison. Prior to version alpha-28, the AI of the chefs just couldn't handle multiple kitchens and canteens. It's a combination of the following: Fearless making suppression using Armed guards or Snipers not work to control their violence. Hey guys, my problem is that my 4th canteen isn´t working correctly. Guard do not eat anymore after some days they get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ of even if there is food in the staff canteen. In Prison Architect, there is a particular nasty combination of traits that can make a prisoner essentially impossible to jail conventionally. Store: Expansion. I know that however I wanted to know if guards can also bring food to the cells of prisoners without them being in permanent lockdown. Showing 1 - 2 of 2 comments. A cook (or prisoner if prison labor is enabled and qualified prisoners are available after mealtime) will walk up to a sink carrying a stack of dirty food trays and proceed to clean the trays with what appears to be scrubbing brush. 28th ; Display modeFront Page News Canteen: Oct. 8. If it's not high then likewise it's. Other then that use the logistics and use food deployment, red dot are for prisoners to go to canteen yellow are from kitchen to canteen, make sure. All you need is a serving table in the staff room (s) and link any kitchen for the trays to be cleaned. The cooks will deliver them there. Typically aim for 1 guard per enclosed area (cell block, canteen, workshop, laundry etc) which prisoners have access to, plus around 5-10% of your prisoner capacity as unassigned guards, with a minimum of 4 unassigned guards at all times. I should just. Okay, earlier on I had the trouble of getting my cooks to clean up all the dirty trays in the staff room. The seating capacity is at 4. I'd say around 75 per 100. Just the topic I was going to post about. View of sectors in the Deployment menu. I'd say continue to move forward with carpentry, in my opinion, but there's no way to make the wood automatically sell. Wolf202020 · 8/10/2015. The Small Bench is very. They will use them during work time if they are not doing any programs are working anywhere. I hope this was some help. Today, Hocdauthau. Games. Short answer is you need an external fence otherwise the game will not allow your prisoners to walk to your canteen. snarfi • 6 yr. #2. My Canteen, Yard, and Showers ( which are all shared rooms all at one time) have a metric ♥♥♥♥ ton of guards ( minus. I went onto the Kitchen Distribution function and clicked a kitchen from its canteen to one of the staff rooms and the cooks all descended on it like locusts to collect the hundreds of trays and take them back to the kitchen for cleaning. Don't worry about those 20 hours of work into a prison design - if it turns out that the design fails then you made progress by analyzing where things went wrong, so you just start a new prison to. Also allocating room space. I built a whole new prison (unlimited funds) and included a staff canteen. Such proportions let you place 4 serving tables, 20 benches and 20 tables (therefore they let you feed 80 prisoners at a time). . I have a staffroom and a staff canteen. up Mar 2, 2014 @ 12:35pm. Generally speaking, the less kitchens you have the less problems you get. It only counts individual cells as safe capacity; your holding cell is only there for overflow. But make sure you don't have rooms that are frequented by the inmates blocked by staff only. I know that this has been a bug for a long time, but it really bothers me that I can literally catch the Cooks just dumping trays randomly in hallways or near the walls of my staffroom. Other potential bugs/problems: - "The gang leader is being punished" effect is way too strong and will rip apart the entire prison every time the leader is sent to solitary, making it impossible to punish them. #11. The trick to this is using the “Staff Doors” on either side. The optimum size of a canteen is 11x9 squares (10x9 also works fine). Guard to Prisoner ratio. #2. Room size 1 if canteen is at least 20 squares big. Do whatever Vidkun said, it's exactly right. When they have finished, they will leave a dirty food tray, which will be washed in a sink by a cook to reuse. Prisoners will report here during "Work" time in Regime if jobs are available. 0 | First draft. Damaged food trays are automatically replaced. Or use the (transparent) digital clock available in the game options. Spawning a lot of cooks into the staff canteen solves this problem, but after a minute they will go idle again. Requirements: Objects: Bench / Bench (Small) / Bench (Oak) / Diner Booth Table / Table (Small) / Table (Oak) / Dining table (Large) / Dining. Make one of your more centralised staffrooms large enough to have canteen equipment (tables etc) AND a kitchin sink (s) 3. A Status Effect is a special attribute a prisoner may acquire under certain circumstances. #3. My prison holds 800 people and was running smoothly. Found a fix for staff canteen trays. The Execution chamber is not visible at all in the Rooms menu before unlocked, and Death. 12. Kitchens are staffed by Cooks and Prisoners. My prison only has 34 prisoners, I was expanding before hand to prepare for 68 prisoners, and a few in-game days after expansion I ran into problems. Heat the prison and have enough janitors, plus look to see if there is pee everywhere. Rather than a 'how to' - this is designed to answer most of the new starter questions trying to answer why their room won't work or isn't recognised as. Check the staff canteen: Staff Room next to my staff canteen. This tool copies tiles that the player selected. I made a post here that says what to do: Basically, have 1 serving table per 40 prisoners, 4 cookers & 1 sink per serving table, 1-2 fridges per cooker, and 1 cook.