I would add at this point that fences are free and as such are great place to start by drawing around the outskirts of your map to seal it in and stop early prison breaks that may occur. Materials – This tool section allows you to put down floors inside and outside as well as add walls and fences. This bar will change as the game goes on to also display details of your guards, cctv cameras and more but we will cover that as it becomes relevant.įoundations – This tool section allows you to build/destroy sections of your prison, by clicking the building button that appears you can just click then drag to make your building. The current time and below that the currently active part of your reigem and time controls – Pause, Slow, Normal and Fast (which can cause issues with certain actions so keep an eye on your workers, etc when using fast) Your current funds (for some reason everytime you start you get charged $10 for a non-existant food tray which means you start with 9,990 rather than the intended $10,000) How many days your prison has been in existance for.
Your objectives/Todo List (you can click the read the CEO’s letter to see it and delete it, it contains some useful tips so make sure you scan through it at least once then delete it). Most likely you will be zoomed in but you can scroll your mouse wheel to zoom in or out on the map.Īlong the top from left to right we have… Once the game loads you should have a screen like the following… Now for this guide I will select fog of war off, continuous intake off and small for my prison size. You have a combo box to select your prison size which dictates the landmass you will have to create your prison in and also the total volume of prisoners you can receive at max each dayĪnd in addition you can choose to have fog of war on/off and continuous intake of prisoners on/off.įog of war means that if your guards or cctv cant see it wont be shown on the over head view but it’s worth noting as of alpha 8 having fog of war off also render cctv cameras useless as they will not function with fog of war off.Ĭontinuous intake I would only recommend for those that feel they have a good grip of the game as with it turned on you cannot stop new prisoners turning up at 8am each day which can lead to several problems including riots if you cannot get cells made quick enough due to lack of funding. Once the games loaded press the “Esc” key to bring up the menu (by default it will always load the latest auto save… no idea why but still it does) and click “Create New Prison” and you will see the following screen… Well let’s start at the beginning as it’s always the best place to start. Hello and welcome to IDED’s Prison Architect Guide.īy now hopefully you have played the very uninformative intro and are wondering what you actually need to do to run a prison as there are a lot of options and pretty much no explanation. This guide is a work in progress so please forgive some details being missing and sections that are still under construction ok maybe not but it will help you understand the game a lot more.
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Wondering where the manual is? Don’t understand what everying is on the interface? Having issues getting to grips with building your first prison? wondering how to stop those shower riots? well this is the guide for you!It will take you from prison planner to running your own super prison.