Overview
PRISON OPTIONS GUIDEThis guide explains all available Prison Options when starting a game with in-depth explanations and images. If this guide helps you, please rate it to get it to more people!Current Version: v2.5
ABOUT
Guide created by Keiretsu
Version – 2.3
Other Guides:
[link]
MAP SIZES
Map Sizes:
Small Map:
100 x 80
X: 100
Y: 80
Medium Map:
150 x 120
X: 150
Y: 80
Large Map:
200 x 160
X: 200
Y: 160
Map Image:
FOG OF WAR
Title: Fog of War
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Description: You will lose visibility of the insides of your prison buildings, unless you have Guards patrolling the area or CCTV Cameras covering the area.
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Summary: Fog of War creates a dark transparent layer that makes you lose visiblity of your prisoners and subsequently what is happening in the ‘foggy’ area. This option requires you to monitor your prison more carefully and assign guards, guard patrols and install CCTV around your prison to be able to monitor your prison. Note that you can still hear what is going on in the out-of-sight areas.
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Example of visible area (Right):
Example of building with Fog of War (Below):
- Lose Visibility of unmonitored parts of your prison.
- Need guard patrols or CCTV to view your prison.
- Recommended for most players, adds some more action to your prison.
JUNGLE PLOT
Title: Jungle Plot
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Description: Generate a starting plot of land that resembles a dense jungle.
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Summary: You start with a plot with different scenery than the default map. This option generates trees over most of the plot, most being palm, and generates them even if you deselect Generate Forests. The ground texture is longer grass rather than the the dirt, grass and sand found on the default plot. The ground texture is also constant throughout the whole map, unlike the default. Trees will need to be dismantled before building, making this a more challenging map, but can also bring in a lot of extra early game profit from exporting the logs.
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Example of a Jungle Plot:
- Trees obstruct construction, making creating your prison more difficult.
- The increased amount of trees can be exported as logs for extra profit.
- Map will generate with trees regardless, even if you unchecked ‘generate forests’.
SNOWBOUND PLOT
Title: Snowbound Plot
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Description: Generate a starting plot of land that’s covered in snow.
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Summary: Your map will generate covered in snow. If you select Generate Forests, the trees will all be ‘Snowy Conifer’ rather than the normal tree types, but will have a similar amount of trees. The ground will be covered in a layer of snow, which can also be placed in the ‘Flooring’ tab and has the same walking speed as normal map ground flooring. Weather & Temperature is not affected and will be the same as the other maps.
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Example of a Snowbound Plot without Generated Forests (Right):
Example of a Snowbound Plot with Generated Forests (Below):
DESERT PLOT
Title: Desert Plot
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Description: Generate a starting plot of land that resembles a sandy desert.
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Summary: Selecting this prison option will generate your prison plot as a desert. The ground is mostly the ‘sand’ flooring with splotches of dirt. Trees will be mostly Cacti, which will strangely drop logs when dismantled, although the stump is that of a cactus. An occasional palm tree will spawn. It is important to note that the Desert Plot will always generate with trees / cactus, as the Generate Forests option does not affect anything.
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Example of a Desert Plot:
- Cactus will spawn instead of trees, which oddly still drop logs which can be exported when dismantled.
LUNAR PLOT
Title: Lunar Plot
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Description: Generate a starting plot of land that resembles a lunar surface.
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Summary: Your starting plot will have a moon-like ground which has small craters every couple of tiles. These small craters will not affect building. Lunar surface can be placed from the flooring tab for $30 per square, and has a higher walk speed than the normal dirt, grass and sand.
If you select Generate Forests, only Sakura Trees will generate instead of the default trees. If you select Generate Lakes, lakes will spawn with a few tiles of grass around them as well as normal trees.
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Example of a Lunar Plot (Right):
Example of a Lunar Plot with Generated Forests (Below):
- Lunar flooring has a higher walk speed than other map’s grounds, making beginning construction easier and faster.
- Lunar flooring can be re-placed from the flooring tab for $30 / square.
- Map will generate with Sakura Trees instead of normal trees.
GENERATE FORESTS
Name: Generate Forests
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Description: Clusters of trees will appear on your land.
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Summary: Small Forests and individual trees will appear on your plot of land will be generated at the start of the game with this option enabled. The trees can be chopped down by your workers and then sold (with exports zone) for some extra starting money. The logs can also be stored for use later in the game, being needed for creating superior beds in the workshop for an even greater profit. Note that trees that are chopped down sometimes leave stumps, which can be impossible to move and obstruct building. See list below on how to get rid of these.
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Example of Generated Forests:
- Logs can be exported for extra money early in the game.
- Can be made into beds in the workshop, then exported for cash.
- RECOMMENDED: Stump remover mod: [link]
GENERATE LAKES
Name: Generate Lakes
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Description: Random lakes will block sections of your land. WARNING: Experimental
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Summary: Lakes will appear on your prison land when the option is on. The lakes will block you from building on top of them. prisoners cannot tunnel where the water is, and they can’t escape in the water if it is on the edge. will be annoying if it spawns in the middle, you will have to build around it, making starting your prison quite a challenge. The description of this option says it is experimental, so it is possible it will change in the future.
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Example of Generated Lakes:
- Cannot build on lakes.
- Prisoners will not tunnel or escape through lakes.
- You cannot place any type of flooring on lakes, making them permanent obstructions.
GENERATE BUILDINGS
Name: Generate Buildings
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Description: Random derelict buildings will be left behind on your land, which you can use as you wish.
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Summary: You will have a random amount of partially constructed buildings appear on your land when generated if the setting is on. Can be built off of to expand your prison, or can be demolished.
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Example of Generated Buildings:
- Adds Incomplete buildings to your prison land.
- Can complete structures to expand your prison.
- Can be demolished; Not permanent.
FAILURE CONDITIONS
Name: Failure Conditions
Description: An extra challenge! You will be sacked and it will be game over if you let things get too bad. (Riots, Bankruptcy, too many Deaths or Escapes, etc.)
Summary: This option means you need a good prison. if its a bad prison, and there are riots, a lot of deaths and escapes, etc. you need to start over. Gives building good prisons a purpose, there is no reason to turn it off other than making epic riot scenes.
GANGS
Name: Gangs
Description: Some prisoners will arive with gang allegiences, and will attack rival gang members on site. Extra challenge.
Summary: A Challenge that brings more violence to your prison, making it harder to build and mantain. gang members can claim yards, common rooms, etc. Gang members will charge prisoners from their savings to enter gang-controlled areas.
Gang member cells (below):
- Single circle is a Gang member
- Double circle is a Lieutenant Gang member
- Triple circle is a Gang Leader
CRIMINALLY INSANE INMATES (DLC)
EVENTS
Name: Events
Description: Causes events to occur during the game to keep you on your toes. Adds extra challenge and an element of unpredictability.
Summary: Events will happen during the game like perimiter fences collapsing which allows prisoners to escape, Fires which can damage your prison, or less dangerous events. Makes the game more fun and challenging.
WEATHER AND TEMPERATURE
Name: Weather and Temperature
Description: Adds changing weather and varying temperature to your prison, requiring you to think about heating.
Summary: There is now weather in your prison, and temperatures can drop and rise. You will need heaters during cold spells.It will affect your prisoners comfortable temperature need.
Heating Overlay(below):
- Darker red means heated area.
- Darker blue means colder area, not heated.
STAFF NEEDS
Name: Staff Needs
Description: Enable needs for your Guards, meaning they will require food, rest, and other comforts in order to do their jobs properly.
Summary: Since your prisoners have needs, your guards have needs, too! Now, you will need serving tables in your staff rooms so your guards can have lunches, and your guards will have different break times so they dont go all at once, and have their Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner. They will only have 1 meal time, and that will be when their assigned break time is. They will also need toilets in there staff rooms aswell as TVs, radios ,Etc.
Examples of staff lunches(right):
Example of staff needs(below):
- Staff Have Breaks in which they eat their lunches (EX. Sandwiches, Fruits, Ect.)
- Staff Have needs like prisoners in which they have to furfill.
- Staff have a morale. If their needs to not meet their demand, their morale will go down. This means they go on strike if they dont get a pay raise or longer breaks.
ESCAPE PLANS
UNLIMITED FUNDS
Name: Unlimited Funds
Description: Pure Sandbox Mode! You can spend as much money as you like right from the start, without having to worry or wait for more later.
Summary: It does one simple thing: Give you unlimited money! You can do whatever you want, and income doesn’t matter, and you don’t lose money. You will still have to unlock things through bureaucracy
Example of what Unlimited Funds looks like:
- Unlimited Money.
- Tech Tree (Bureaucracy) still not unlocked.
- Unlimited Debt.
BUREAUCRACY REASERCHED
TOOLS AND CHEATS
THE END
Thank you for reading my guide. I hope you found my guide helpful! This guide is not finished but i will keep working on it when updates come out.
Check out my other guide here: [link]
Guide made by: Casper613 on steam.
CREDITS
CREDITS:
Gangs Picture: Prison Architect Wikipedia[devwiki.introversion.co.uk]
Temperature Picture: Gamesear[www.gamesear.com]
Other Pictures: Casper613(me)
VERSIONS
Versions of my guide.
1.0 – 10/2/16 -First Draft
V1.1 – 1/31/17 -Published Guide
V1.1.1 – 2/1/17 -Tweaked/changed some parts
V1.3 – 2/2/17 -Added Staff Needs & Unlimited Funds & Creduts
V1.3.1 – 9/30/17 -Added Picture for Unlimited Funds
V1.4 – 10/1/17 -Designed and Replaced Branding Image for Guide
V1.4.1 – 10/2/17 -Modified Staff Needs + 1 Year Anniversary of this guide!
V2.0 – 8/8/18 -Version 2: Rewritten sammaries with better grammar, new pictures, and 2 new options: Tools and Cheats, & Escape Plans!
V2.1 – 10/xx/18 – Bold and easier to spot titles and subtitles
V2.2 1/3/20 – Table of Contents reworked, added new sections, redesigned pages. (Bureau. , Crim. Insane, Snowbound, Lunar, Desert, and Jungle pages)
V2.3 1/6/20 – Improved several pages
V2.4 4/19/20 – Design Changes, Finished Jungle, Snowbound and Desert Plot and several small changes
V2.5 4/20/20 – Design Changes, Finished Lunar Plot, Rewrote several pages.
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