The chapter starts with Doctor Walter Hurst visiting the Solitary wing of the new prison. #1. So, in more specific: Prisoner A (Med Sec) goes to the canteen at 8am to get his breakfast. Felyne • 1 yr. Cleaning Closet – The larger it is the more prisoners can work as cleaners. It says: "there are no canteens accessible by this kitchen. A canteen in a staff-only area becomes a staff canteen, used by guards during their break. Spawning a lot of cooks into the staff canteen solves this problem, but after a minute they will go idle again. Nearly my entire staff is pissed off from the food need, and the fully stocked and equipped staff canteen is completely unused. All you need to do is place a serving table in a (the staff room). I'm having trouble fulfilling Food need for staff even though I've setup staff canteen and there are food on the trays. Click image for larger version. Jay ;3 Jan 10 @ 9:47pm. Inmates are granted a parole. So both serving tables in these rooms are being ignored. my staff canteens are well stocked already. Doc_McStabbins Jul 23, 2015 @ 7:38am. Prison Economics (Silver): Complete every Grant available to one prison in Prison Architect mode on a standard. Stoic making punishment (such as permanent lockdown or solitary) not. . Staff Member will walk slow. #1. Prison Architect - Support & Bug reports. However, this was improved a lot in that update. Today, Hocdauthau. The different ingredients used to cook meals from. Nick, try to optimize the prisoner canteens & kitchens and then the staff canteens will run nicely as well. It's displaying that staff morale is low even though I have staff bathrooms, staff canteen including kitchen, and a staff break room. Staff meals are more expensive than prisoner. 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. They are in prison for a large number of (usually) heinous crimes. ephemeraltoast Jun 10, 2022 @ 12:46pm. It's the place where the Prisoners can catch some fresh air, exercise or relax. Even though they had staff canteens throughout the prison, I think it's the fact I mixed a large number of normal and max that's turned it into a death mill thats causing the staff to be so hacked off (400 paroled, 150 or so deaths). I have tried to remove the snack machine and their needs for food just goes. #2. If it's a glitch try reloading your save which old builds would sort issues like that. . This lets you segregate more violent high sec prisoners from the rest of the population for example. Im at a loss, i love this game, and love the idea of staff needs, but a prison is unplayable if i use staff needs. Noticed that the staff are not eating in the staffroom or the staff canteen. Found a fix for staff canteen trays. 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. Sillls Feb 3 @ 1:27pm. Prison Architect. These needs can include hygiene, food, comfort, recreation and luxury. Trays not cleaned usually means that you need more cooks. 6a Unbelievable, This got an update after 3. 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. This is a “hot” topic with 35,600 searches/month. I started testing out the staff new staff needs update. Mighty Mar 22, 2015 @ 12:43pm. Guards don't seem to deliver food to them and their need for food keeps going up till they reach starving. This mechanic works. A canteen in a staff-only area becomes a staff canteen, used by guards during their break. Not getting food ingredients has been reported several times on discord and it seems that it's just buggy at the moment. Check the staff canteen: Staff Room next to my staff canteen. A Guard maintains security at the prison, keeping an eye on prisoners, subduing riots or fights, and transporting prisoners to and from Solitary, the Infirmary, and other locations. Staff member types can be categorised into five different groups, which are defined below. 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. Prisoners will report here during "Work" time in Regime if jobs are available. Prepared food is then placed on Serving Tables in a Canteen. Chief. It's been 2 in game days now, didn't work. I built a staff only canteen, staff only toilets, staff rooms with plenty of seating, and set up scheduled deployment so that fewer guards are needed at night. These include: Tables ( Table, Table (Small), Table (Oak),. An office to house surveillance equipment such as a CCTV console. If "One Click Rapsheet" is disabled, you can access the Prisoner Profile by left-clicking on a prisoner and selecting "Show Rapsheet" from the tooltip. Fire and re-hire. You don't even need a sink, just the table, benches, and a serving table in the canteen. Usually the AI does an adequate job at figuring this out on its own, but sometimes you need to set this up manually. The seating capacity is at 4. 9 9 comments Kromatikal • 1 yr. (see Section 07a) One option for feeding your employees is a staff canteen. Why they keep ordering this when it's not being us is a mystery to me. Forums. Short answer is you need an external fence otherwise the game will not allow your prisoners to walk to your canteen. For instance, Education programs need a 3-hour block. 50 and an expired coupon for an ice cream cone. Found a fix for staff canteen trays If you're unaware, there is a beta feature that turns on 'staff needs'. It contains up to 5 tabs of information. michaelwintherandersen has Prison Architect Aug 1 @ 7:43am Make sure the prisoners have access to the canteen, meaning make sure you dont have staff only arreas blocking the path. #2. So sacking and spawning cooks might help this out. 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. Prisoner B (Med Sec) is in Permanent Punishment - a guard will bring him a small portion of food at 8am. Change your staff canteen to a staff room. you only need it if you have staff needs on. I also only have 5 workmen. Managing the prison isn't an easy task and that's why this guide was created. Via Bureaucracy, research "Deployment": This requires a Warden - to unlock the Chief - the Chief, and offices for both. This results into other staff being unable to use the staff canteen anymore, because there are no clean trays left. The staff canteens are filled with dirty trays but the staff food is actually on the serving table. #2. #1. I've tried unselecting dump and reselecting it. Edit: Picture of single land parcel; 250 cells (or so). orb Mar 6, 2017 @ 4:45am. Cleaning Closet – The larger it is the more prisoners can work as cleaners. Sectors allow the player to control the housing and flow of Prisoners in their. District Message on Interim Reports - NSMS Interim Reports are week of Oct. A shop sells items that fulfill a variety of needs. 7) Don't use prisoners in your Kitchen. If the kitchen also supplies a staff canteen with 1 serving table in it, there should be a 3rd sink and an 11th cook. The Bench has a similar variant called the Oak Bench, which seats 6 people. Food: The Staff Member is Hungry. 1. Spike Dec 28, 2016 @ 12:06pm. We expect to receive hotfixes in the upcoming days so hopefully this is fixed. They have nowhere to eat build them tables. ago. One snack costs $2, and is added to your balance. Staff meals are more expensive than prisoner. make a canteen set it to staff only it becomes staff canteen. I run at -70% pay but 50% breaktime and they are more or less content, except for the garden staff who get notoriously cold. It also fulfills a prisoners 'freedom' need and several others if relevant objects are placed. 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. Trays are sitting on the tables in the canteen, in the staff rooms and a few scattered in the hallways. Today my prison architect was updated and this began to happen. Either at a table or on a couch or chair. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. Regular guard staff lower your inmates’ safety need, while armored guards increase the need. How do I handle them. Trees are bought for $100 and planted by Gardener in the forestry area. Try walling in the area around your prision and setting the surrounding area to staff only. Well the problem is that in my prison every cell-area has got his own canteen. By: murgh. Click on the Foundations tool and select the Building Sub-Button to create the Office Building. Also, there are tons of staff meals just sitting in deliveries, not making their way to the staff room. My staff are ALL (meaning every single gaurd i hired) ♥♥♥♥♥♥ off. So as several players have noticed. Food keeps piling up. all 4 cell blocks actually do share other areas so placing a staff-only zone in between is not an option. You can check what needs your prisoners have by hovering over them: a tooltip will pop up, showing you the status of their needs. So now all my staff are going for the snack machine than the serving tables with food causing less staff to eat the staff meals. If so, did you know you don't really need a Staff Canteen? Just put a serving table in the Staff Room and link it a kitchen and voila! You're good to go! Your cooks will even wash 🚿 all those pesky trays! Like. The Yard is a room that can be built inside or outside that allows prisoners to exercise and socialize. But because more prisoners live in one room, they may. Don't use staff. Staff needs sucks. The mostly need bladder bowels and food but. Therefore guards should be stationed in the yards. 1. Visit our. An existing one is enough. And two snack machines in the canteen. i have 1 serving table per 20 prisoners but most food trays lying on the ground: over 9000 food trays in my prison. Increase the amount of equipment in your kitchen. I do think it's the trays because there is loads of them left in the canteen with eaten food. These include: Tables ( Table, Table (Small), Table (Oak), Dining Table (Large), Dining Table (Small), or Diner Booth) Chairs/Benches ( Bench, Bench (Small), Bench (Oak), Dining Chair, or Dining Booth) Serving Tables Tips You must first research deployment and set a canteen to staff only to make a staff canteen. With the addition of staff meals in Update 11 (and the dirty trays that come with. If your staff room (with serving table) or staff canteen (a regular canteen marked as staff-only in deployment) is small and/or the benches/sofas are near a wall,. Share. It seems like they get stuck, like they all want to sit on the same chair but can't. Officially there is a bug . 6) Even if you want to, avoid small walkways (in your cell blocks, outside, etc. Their presence does make prisoners behave better, however they do not, on their own, act to prevent anything. They hold up the break rotation for everybody else, which pisses them off. 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. All Discussions. Joe Dorito Mar 2, 2014 @ 12:28pm. The optimum size of a canteen is 11x9 squares (10x9 also works fine). If you build walls to mark out the path it should become legitimate. Trixi Sep 26, 2016 @ 9:41am. Prison Architect - Support & Bug reports. Deliveries room is becoming clogged with staff meals (about 48 stacks of 3). This room functions to re-energize your tired Staff members. it is %100 required otherwise your prison will basically explode from the amount of contraband that the inmates smuggle. Left click and hold a Report folder on its edges to move it around or Left click and hold bottom right to re-size. Doctor. May 24, 2021. I have one large kitchen between two canteens separating max and medium security. 1 serving table = 2 cookers. A canteen in a staff-only area becomes a staff canteen, used by guards during their break. Yes, the food is fully stocked. You need to manually assign both of them. Creating a holding cell for Protective Custody only, while there are no holding cells for "shared" will work too. This room must be researched before it can be used. Just some buildings in the landscape don't work. Sinks are used by the Cooks to wash dirty food trays. Hold down the right mouse button to select an area to clone. Clean trays, enough trays, staff meals. Invest and InnovateTap federal money with grant applications & direct your funds to combat. Parole is a unique reform program which allows the possibility for prisoners, often those with softer offenses, to be released earlier than their intended detention time. In Prison Architect, the player will normally receive money when taking in and housing prisoners in the form of an initial. Have various vending machines, coffee machines, water coolers/fountains and orange juice tables around your prison to settle the Luxuries/Food needs for prisoners and Comfort/Food needs for Staff members. ago. Tingley93 • 1 yr. " #2. 71 ratings. This great looking artwork was created by Morten Elgaard Pedersen. The reason your Max Sec prisoners are roaming freely is because all those sections are Shared, which includes the rights for Max Sec to use them. AHHhhh, that was the problem. avantech Jun 15, 2015 @ 6:57am. #4. for start you need following rooms: offices, cells, holding cell, solitary cell, cantine, kitchen, yard, shower room (if not in cells placed) maybe common room. #1. If you build a canteen and a holding cell and they are not connected by an area fully enclosed by walls, doors, or fences then the prisoners are not allowed to walk to that canteen and the cell will have an exclamation mark but the. Just from playing today I discovered new bugs. The new cellblock up top can be assigned manually perfectly fine, but for some reason we can't work out, the lower one will ONLY automatically assign to the northern one, and can't be moved anywhere else. I started testing out the staff new staff needs update. #1. If you research Deployment you are also able to force the prisoners into the prisoner Canteen by setting the Staff room to "staff only". This tool copies tiles that the player selected. With staff canteen ( canteen with staff only) the cooks again put trays in here and when time is permitted and you have enough cooks they will pick them up. Modified 11 months ago. It worked pretty good, until i finished my 4th canteen. Evaluate your scheduling, staffing, and flow ro see where the issue entails. The guards will be randomly assigned different times throughout the day. #10. The Small Bench is very. No one is cleaning them up. Workmen chop down the tree to create 3 logs $50 value each. IN A NON-STAFF NEEDS PRISON: Press ESCAPE to pause and go to Main Menu, click "Extras", click "Map Settings", and turn Staff Needs on. [Solved] Staff food need / Cleaning trays. Rest: The Staff Member is tired and needs to take a break. Radiators help to warm up the rooms of your prison if the weather/temperature system is activated. IN A NON-STAFF NEEDS PRISON: Press ESCAPE to pause and go to Main Menu, click. Prison Architect. There is a restroom next to the Staff Canteen and Staff Room. AddieBA • 5 yr. Showing 1 - 13 of 13 comments. Dirty tray problem. His food need is on max but he won't eat. That also had the bonus of fewer trays all over the place. Anyways, I guess you know how to deal with it now so let's end this here lol. Note: Due to a bug, staff canteens may run out of trays from time to time,. In particular, your guards need to eat, but due to AI wierdness, trays won't be brought to your staffroom serving tables or staff-only canteens (the only two places where guards will eat regularly). Make one of your more centralised staffrooms large enough to have canteen equipment (tables etc) AND a kitchin sink (s) 3. I built a whole new prison (unlimited funds) and included a staff canteen. Yes, it works. For high security. Staff canteens are not stocked by your prison's kitchens, but from the outside with prepackaged staff meals. Food doesn’t become a problem till you’re trying to feed hundreds of prisoners. 3) Distance seems to play. There's a bug in the beta that prevents guards from fulfilling their. Type. The Yard is a room that can be built inside or outside that allows prisoners to exercise and socialize. Just wanna know how these work. The greater your inmate population, the more Fridges, Cookers and Cooks you will require to keep up with demand. Hire: $1,000. 5 years Sharpend Icons,Backgroundcolors of Menu changed. nope. During specific periods, they will not leave the area that activity is in. 1. and then separating it by surrounding it with a staff only area. ago. Some have merged with benches but others are jiggling pointlessly in open space. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect. 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. Prison Architect Update 12 - Changes to the staff needs!Official Update video by Chris and Mark:. Then I had a smaller kitchen + canteen for PC, that didn't work so fine due to distance and mad cooks. Prison Architect. It may seem absurd when running your prison, but having too much security can actually cause more problems. The Canteen should be the largest room in the prison. Like every good tycoon, it requires a well-thought strategy and long-term plans, as well as a deep analysis of the game mechanics. All you need is a serving table in the staff room (s) and link any kitchen for the trays to be cleaned. Completely separating the canteen from the staff room by a tile (or wall in my own case) completely negated this bug and prevented it. Add more couches. On a side note, just my opinion, that one office you built looks like it could be 4. A small green bar, symbolic of a staff member's energy levels, will slowly diminish the longer a staff member works without rest. You need deployment - then you need to mark the canteen as Staff Only. It should be noted that crated objects/resources are also scanned in an identical fashion. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. Originally posted by sandvich:This is the most common reason for both prisoners and staff not eating. I have enough free guards and the Protective wing. away from that, i would remove the door to the shower room, and marke the shower room also as dormitory, so that the shower are within the dormitory. Don't use staff canteen they seem bugged. maybe you will find the mistake. Executions have to be unlocked by Death Row research of the Lawyer. In order to be arranged, you must first construct the parole room according to its requirements, then activate the program via the programs tab in reports. This profile can be accessed by left clicking on any prisoner in-game. Each log is moved to Workshop Saw to create 4. CDMundo Sep 22, 2022 @ 9:40pm. Joe Dorito Mar 2, 2014 @ 12:28pm. 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. 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. Staff doors require a staff member to open it, likewise with jail doors and guards. Note: Due to a bug staff canteens may run out of trays from time to time,. make toilets for your staff but make sure you do not assign the toilets within the Staffroom Room area. Also have a full serving unit in the staffroom that isn't used as well. However as my prison expanded I created a second staff area so my guards aren't spending half their break running through halls. If your staff room (with serving table) or staff canteen (a regular canteen marked as staff-only in deployment) is small and/or the benches/sofas are near a wall, the staff may leave the dirty trays somewhere just outside the staff room. I am on the verge of rage quitting. When the prisoner has something better to do, such as classes, work or rehab programs, they will go there. Keep in mind that a prisoner will only be more content if a cell is "better than average". Definitely install everything (bed, toilet, pipes) before adding a jail door. A subreddit dedicated to the game Prison Architect, developed by Introversion Software and sold to Paradox Interactive. Originally posted by icedude94: Check your deployment screen to see if you have any staff only areas set on the way. 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. I have spent some time and finally found the solution/permanent fix to the irritating staff meals issues!The issue where food trays are not cleaned and resto. The only way to get them unstuck is by either forcing them to move to a different location, or firing them. Showing 1 - 13 of 13 comments. This is further elevated if a gang controls the area. icedude94 Aug 29, 2015 @ 3:17am. Prisoners will be locked up in their cells, which they are not allowed to leave. In this episode of the tutorial series, we explore the basic requirements of the canteen as well as some tips and best practices. Issues: - Even though tables and chairs in the canteen, they would take the trays into the staffroom to eat - had about 200 dirty trays in the staffroom that weren't being picked up. Yeah, I know. if you have a small prison you can have it on 1 hour but with larger amounts and bigger prison 2 hours is smarter to give all a chance to eat. Store: Expansion. How to satisfy safety: This is easily fixed by dispatching more guards. maybe you will find the mistake. But the default ratio (medium variety, medium quantity) is: 1 serving table = ~40 prisoners. This way a prisoner will get assigned to a qualitative better cell in the correct wing. Staff canteens are not stocked by your prison's kitchens, but from the outside with prepackaged staff meals. Or it spawns at Deliveries when you use my Tweaked Staff Food mod. They can also revive unconscious persons. then followed by working rooms: cleaning cupport, laundry, library, workshop. They need to sit on a couch as part of the staff room. Forums. As the title suggests, staff can have needs too. schwendes Jun 28, 2017 @ 4:53am. Jump to latest Follow Reply. On a laptop, pressing both mouse buttons at the same time often. Originally posted by lissa_981:Status Effects. First use the Building tool in the Foundation Menu to create the Office Area. Made it quite large to accommodate my staff numbers. check your deployments. 2 if classroom is at least 50 squares big. I did that with the prison architect calculator, which show me exactly how many of each item. I've never seen this happen even when trays end up in the yard. Prioritize Guards of all staff and get them on patrols in highly-populated areas - cell blocks, canteen, visitation. Hey guys, my problem is that my 4th canteen isn´t working correctly. all 4 cell blocks actually do share other areas so placing a staff-only zone in between is not an option. Yes I do have micromanagement researched. Just from playing today I discovered new bugs. Cooks will come collect dirty trays when needed and bring them back once they clean. 71 ratings. This great looking artwork was created by Morten Elgaard Pedersen. Not sure what to do. Keeping staff happy? I just started playing with staff needs enabled and staff morale has been steadily dropping. Last edited by Jack Kelso; Jun 28, 2017 @ 4:10am < > Showing 1-10 of 10 comments . You could make it so their patrols spend time inside and outside. It should automatically do the dotted yellow line for staff room and the prisoner canteen to the same kitchen, unless you've manually connected one and forced a disconnect somewhere else. One cook supplied with five. I don't know if anyone else is having this. Please fix the prison element of this bug simulation game. Prison Architect: Gangs is a content DLC for Prison Architect. Thread starter poono; Start date Nov 6, 2022; Jump to latest Follow Reply. There's loads of clean trays and food but they won't eat. Make sure you allow enough time for them to get to the staff canteen and eat. You have no direct control over whether they are interested in taking. Prisoner B (Med Sec) is in Permanent Punishment - a guard will bring him a small portion of food at 8am. Give the staffbreak times enough time to get to rooms needed. Prisoners will use Laundry Baskets to collect and distribute clothes around your prison. Add another serving table in the canteen. 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. Managing a group of dozens of hungry prisoners isn't. In the Canteen, after a prisoner eats. I don't know if that'll work with the extreme cold, but it's worth a shot. My prison holds 800 people and was running smoothly. I'd say continue to move forward with carpentry, in my opinion, but there's no way to make the wood automatically sell. Per page: 15 30 50. I should just be able to assign a cell block to a canteen. 0 | First draft. Yard is also a common place for fights and riots. There are a few steps to a well run prisoner canteen assignment. I know dirty tray not being cleaned by cooks has been asked multiple. This might not be the most perfect setup, but it's what I found that works for me. To get the perfect kitchen and canteen, you need to plan ahead.