Overview
Welcome to the complete guide for the Achievements of Prison ArchitectThere are 18 Steam Achievements in total, it is easy and quite quick.Let’s start…
Introduction
Here is a complete guide how to get the 18 Steam achievements in Prison Architect.
Weirdly, Prison Architect achievements are quite rare but also easy to get. I was motivated to write this guide because of the really low rate of achievement for Polaroids and game bible (in November 2015 only 0.04% of the players earned those achievements). Also, I wasn’t able to find out any guide so far. I’m happy to say it’s my first guide for the Steam Community and probably the first “All Achievement” for Prison Architect.
Total of achievements : 18
Time to get them all : <5 hours
Hopeful this guide will be helpful. Please don’t hesitate to propose improvement(s) in the comment. And sorry for the bad English.
Before starting:
While you can complete the achievements on you own, you can get most of them thank to the steam workshop. When you loaded a prison from steam workshop, make a save-game and load it. It will unlock the achievement triggers.
Some people find that the following tricks are cheating and I don’t deny that. If you don’t want to cheat, I try as much as possible to propose a legit method to get the achievements. You should know however some of the achievements are almost impossible to get (e.g. Polaroids and Bible because it is random with a incredible low spawn rate) and some people reported bugs in some versions preventing the achievements to trigger.
Remember, getting achievements is just a matter of personal fun and nobody get anything from them.
Story Related Achievements (4/18)
You have to finish the 5 chapters of the scenario with all the optional objectives. It is quite straightforward and you can do quickly. Follow the only golden rule :
Do not complete all the mandatory objectives before the optional objectives are completed.
This is important because sometimes the optional objectives will be removed when you progress in the story line.
Sandbox Prison (9/18)
For these achievements, you can build your own prison or download some prison of the community. We will see the in-game requirements to unlock them. Alternatively, I propose some prison from the Steam Workshop to get them.
Really easy achievements. You don’t even need to have valid cells to host those prisoners. Just hold them in a huge Holding Cell. A few dozen of guards with tasers can help to keep them calm.
Alternatively, “Evantertainment’s 1000+ Prison ! ! !” prison in Steam Workshop unlock all of them immediately (link below)
Less boring than the previous achievements, you’ll have to complete few objectives in sandbox mode.
- Without prisoner: On a big map, build a huge Forestry with enough Workmen (200+), Gardeners (50+) and an Export room big enough next to the road. Build several Staff rooms for your staff to be more efficient. This method works perfectly in any game to reach a huge cashflow with a few prisoners.
- Create a new prison. Put the intake to 0 for few days until 110+ prisoners are waiting. You can accept all them at once and put them in a giant Holding Cell. BINGO!
- For an ongoing prison, keep your costs low with: small quantity and diversity of food; few guards but well equipped (tasers); no programs; etc. If you have 200+ prisoners, it should be really easy.
- Steam Workshop can help you out if you’re lazy, just search the keyword “cashflow“.
- Accept the maximum of prisoners (150+), put them in Holding Cell, reduce the number of guards to the minimum and wait… If there are too quiet, stop feeding them! Set food variety and quantity to low.
- Alternatively you can download my prison “Riot 50+ (Spare the Rod)“, link below
- This one can be quite frustrating to get. First, you need to get the research “Death Row” from your Lawyer. Then, you’ll have to wait, it can take 30 in game days to have your first death penalty prisoner. Don’t forget to open your Intakes for death penalty and have a working execution wing. When you get him, just click on him and press “execution”. It was maybe an innocent… but you can say that steam achievements made you do it.
- If you don’t want to wait, download “Easy Execution Achievement” in the Steam Workshop (link below).
Originally posted by Feryaz:For “Wait and hope” if you do not have the DLC(s) it requires:
– Save prison localy
– Open the .prison save file with text editor
– Search for “BEGIN Research” and set every Progress except one to 1.000000
– Save
– Load prison and do last research
Game Bible and Polaroids (2/18)
UPDATE [January 2017]: Erika did a awesome job to list all the polaroids with their trigger, thanks and thumb up !
[link]
Moreover StarAnastasy gives you the 14 specials prisoners that “drop” their own polaroid
[link]
Tip from TheCombatWombat
“iirc like 80%-90% of the pages I found were OUTside my prison walls. So what I did was as soon as I noticed this, I made all my workers put sand everywhere outside my walls. Makes the pages MUCH easier to spot! :)”
Statistically, those are one of the rarest achievements on steam with both 0.04% earning rate (November 2015). It can be explained because there is almost no chance that you’ll get them without cheating. The fault to the developers who made hundred of Polaroids and game pages to collect manually with the method above. Thus, I give also a trick to get them in few minutes. Ready ?
DISCLAIMER : don’t do it if you don’t want. Use the legit method above instead and good luck 🙂
- First of all, you need to open unlocked.txt with notepad. It can be found in the game’s external directory (the same that your savegames) :
Windows
“c:users#your_user_nameAppDataLocalIntroversionPrison Architectunlocked.txt”
(change #your_user_name by your profile name on windows)
Mac OS :
“users#your_user_nameLibraryApplication Support Prison Architectunlocked.txt”
Linus :
“~/.Prison Architect/saves/” (thank 9th Wonder for the location)Inside, you have the list of all the items that you already unlocked. If you want, you can do a backup (‘save as’-> unlocked2.txt).
- Thus you need to get the list of all possible items. This list can be found here :
[link] - Copy/Past all the items into unlocked.txt
- Remove the line GameBible_77 into unlocked.txt
- Remove the line campaign/deathrow/transfer.png into unlocked.txt
- Save unlocked.txt
- Start the game. In extra, you should have “Game Bible 77/78” and “Polaroids 176/177”
Now to get the two rare achievements :
Congratulation, you got two of the most rare steam achievements !
Other (3/18)
- Not all the prisons will give you this achievement. You can try a prison from the Steam Workshop “Escape (almost) Impossible” below. Achievement grantee if you can find the exit.
- How to escape? Get Stronger! Just smash objects, prisoners, guard, everything !!! When you’re about to die, surrender and spend the earned reputation points to avoid the solitary.
- Spend the remaining reputation points to be tougher, stronger, etc.
- Repeat the operation until you are really deadly. At some point, you’ll have time to kill several workmen, janitors and prisoners before surrender.
- When your reputation is high enough, you can just run out of the prison. Kill a guard, get his key and go out of here ! No one will be able to stop you, even if you fight with bare hands.
- If you see guards with tasers or deadly weapons, just run : they’ll probably miss you. Careful: the shotgun is deadly in close combat !
- You can enroll some prisoners and they can use reputation points. However, keep in mind that the Achievement will be earned only if you succeed to escape your entire crew. So if a member of your crew fall Unconscious during the escape, he will have to find a way out the next day, without his friends.
Conclusion
Congratulation, you got all the Steam Achievement and you are now part of the rare people who do.
I’m sorry again for the bad English. I would be happy to improve to guide with your help so comment, like (or unlike) and don’t hesitate to contact me.