Overview
Staff needs: something hard and satisfying to complete!This is a quick guide on how to build a sucsessful prison with staff needs enabled.This also contains a cheeky shortcut on how staff canteens work. Time to bin the research and the mods: its dead easy!If you found it helpful, please like!
The Basics
Staff needs is an installment into prison architect that make staff have needs. These are like prisoner needs, but instead of getting angry, they get annoyed and don’t work as well as they should. That is why, if you enable staff needs, you need to build a staffroom and a canteen ASAP!
Staff needs don’t affect most staff, only cooks and guards need them. Although there are only 2 staff types that need these needs, they are the two most important!
The staff have differant needs to prisoners:
- Bladder – staff will only use toilets in designated zones or staff rooms.
- Bowels – staff will only use toilets in designated zones or staff rooms.
- Food – you can either add a serving table to staff room or create new canteen for them designated as Staff Only. Staff meals are more expensive than prisoner ones and will be automatically delivered to your prison every day.
- Safety – even your guards want to feel safe. You can help them by equipping them with Tazers or body armour or by increasing the number of Guards.
- Recreation – staff now also gets bored so they will use any entertainment equipment which is in staff room – for example, pool tables, TVs or radios
- Environment – this need is completely same as a prisoner’s, so it’s based on the cleanliness of your prison. Attend this need by adding (more) Janitors to your prison or by getting prisoners to clean via work.
- Rest – this need replaced the original ‘tiredness’ system, however, now you decide how much free time they will get. If you want calm and nice prison, be sure to give your staff enough down time.
- Warmth (Only with weather and temperature) – this need is completely same as a prisoner’s, and you need to add radiators in the staff room.
Heres a picture of what the staff needs section (under needs!) look like:
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If you don’t satisfy the needs of your staff, they will become angry and this will reflect in their performance – they will start to perform their jobs badly:
Sauntering around slowly when doing jobs.
Less effective when searching for contraband.
Less likely to actively look for trouble, more likely to turn a blind eye.
Unwilling to suppress wrong-doing prisoners.
In extreme cases, staff can be bribed and may overlook some contraband found on a prisoner!
Staff Canteens & Staff Rooms
Staff rooms are comfortable places for your staff to rest. They only require a drinks machine and a large sofa, but I would always put in the following:
- A 10×10 room
- 2 Large Sofas (more if your prison is getting massive and you need more staff)
- 1 TV for every 2 couches (4 for every Large TV)
- 2 Toilets (in a small room, obviously…). You must set this as staff only in the deployment tab.
- A drinks machne
- A door to a canteen
This is where your staff come and relax and eat some brought in food. To make a staff canteen, build a canteen then go iinto deployment and set it to staff only. Simple! No more need for any mods!