Overview
This guide will be showing you how to clean your prison instantly so your prison will be shiny clean again.
How to clean your prison instantly
Step 1: Start the game
Start the game, then simply navigate your way to the main menu to select the Open Saves Folder.
It is possible to navigate to the folder out of the game.
The file directory using Windows is:
C:Users%username%AppDataLocalIntroversionPrison Architectsaves
The file directory using Mac OS X is:
/Users/%username%/Library/Application Support/Prison Architect/saves
For Linux:
/home/%username%/.Prison Architect/saves
Step 2: Open the Saves file
You can use Notepad, Notepad++, etc on windows to open it
For mac open the file using Textedit which comes pre-installed. To edit the cleaing file, hold Cmd+F (Ctr+F for windows) and search for EnabledDecay in the prison file.
Step 3: Disable Decay
Find the word ‘EnabledDecay’. In alpha-15c it should be at line 15. Change the following value from ‘true’ to ‘false’. This will prevent your prison from getting dirty.
Step 4: Clean up prison
You will need a texteditor which supports searching for regular expressions. For example notepad++ would suffice.
Open the ‘Find and replace…’ dialogue. Ensure it is set to search with regular expressions. Search for ‘Con d+.d+’ and replace all occurrences with a space. This will clean up your prison.