Prison Architect news & patch notes

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• Capacitor 2.0: I introduce to you, the Capacitor Max Plus - an upgraded version of the capacitor which allows your Power Stations to now produce twice the amount of power than they did before - for twice the price of course.
• Remote Doors: We have added a coloured variant of the remote doors for both Death Row and Supermax security levels.
• Riot Van Speed: Due to the efficiency of air-bound emergency units we have increased the movement speed of the Riot Guard Vans, to lower their arrival time.
• Super Dog Mutator: Due to our undeniable fondness of them, we’ve added a new mutator based on the Super Guard mutator which will help give our furry friends and upgrade.
• Updated Descriptions: After sweeping through the game we decided to update or add a number of new text strings. As such we’ve updated text for Item description, Staff descriptions, and also Need Descriptions.

• Unconscious Dogs can now be loaded into a crate and heal to be reunited with their handler.
• Dog Handlers can now pet their dogs in the kennel
• Premade Map “Green Power Plant: Going Green”
• A missing tile has been found
• Rooms are no longer missing their radiators and hot water pipes
• Door orientation fixed
• Removed incorrect link to the yard from the canteen
• Premade Map “The Working Fields: Growing Green”
• All metal barrels have been removed.
• Removed incorrect cage gate
• Added a missing hedge wall
• Cooking Ingredients are no longer being misdirected to the Bakery
• Pantries are no longer required to be indoors.
• Objects in the water will now be removed from where the island would like to be.
• Jobs no longer created when placing different kinds of water on shallow water
• Four new male inmate heads
• Making quick islands now checks the current water type and matches it for the new water.
• It is now obvious which side of the projector is the front.

• Medical beds will now unload after extended infirmary time.
• Placing foundation will only remove outdoor plans e.g. fences
• You can no longer delete a wall and leave the paper lantern.
• Guards now stand in the center when using a tracking monitor. Much better for their necks.
• One hit killing victims now appear on the Summary Screen.
• Female prisoners with babies now have the ability to gain rep points in escape mode.
• It is no longer possible to hire staff off the edge of the map.
• You can no longer overlap prefabs over the grove or outdoor lake.
• Info about Crop Distribution in Logistics Menu now shows properly in all languages.
• Green Energy Goal 7 - reduced penalty from weather effects - now works properly on solar panels.
• Export Meters have had their connections cleaned up.
• Solar Panel Development Program no longer has an unnecessary tag.
• Recycling Bins are now properly recommended
• Saving the game a Workman carries a wilted crop will no longer magically make said crop start growing in that location.
• Dead bodies now lay properly on the morgue slabs
• Delinquents have been properly cached on where to spawn and now stay together.
• Backup generators no longer demand electricity when connected to electricity
• Armed Guards hired and Dog Handlers hired text now fits the box in every language.
• Lefthandpos is only set for two handed items so use righthandpos like any other one handed item
• The color of the uniforms in the game is now saved correctly
• Yellow lined tiles now have correct orientation when cloned.
• Glass walls will now display more nicely
• Workers are no longer trapped when removing rubble from under a jail door.
• Fixed issue with guard rank ui not updating correctly when rank is changed.
• Guards will now return trays to the canteen.
• Undead have had their heads reattached properly
• Robot Dogs now sniff like robot dogs, not biological dogs
• Added Orderly toolbar sprite to the sprite replacer
• Inmates no longer attempt to eat backwards at tables
• Custom shakedowns no longer include no access zones.
• Inmates no longer use visitor only zones
• Stun baton no longer flashes when it shouldn’t
• Oak benches have now been given permission to seat three
• Tracking menu will no longer show the dead
• Campaign
• Firemen no longer evade fire danger and walk funny
• Firemen can now extinguish fire on walls/blocked cells
• Fixed issue in Chapter 3 with Armed Guard patrols
• Inmates using camp beds and netted camp beds are once more permitted to receive birthday presents
• Road no longer blocks staff hire placement.

• Crops will no longer show a red outline when you are attempting to plant on valid spots with objects in planting radius.
• Doors have learned not to appear on top of turbines.
• Fixed so that you cannot spawn multiple doors when changing ui
• Ferry docks will not render as overlapped
• Issue with air plumber hoses and helipad stairs fixed.
• You can now see a yellow line follow the trajectory of the taser
• Bounty Hunters have now been given maps as well as lessons on how to hunt the undead.
• Workers are no longer trapped when removing rubble from under a jail door.
• Tracking belted inmates go to the infirmary first when overdosing
• Door timer now corrected
• Updated new regime items
• Paper lanterns can now be dismantled/dumped
• Removed unwanted pixels for hybrid wind turbines

• Fruit Trees now correctly sync between host and players
• Drip pipes and sprinklers now properly work for players
• “Expires In” for players now matches the host
• Auto harvesters now properly work for players
• Prisoners without cells added to data register so player gets value on connecting to the host
• Tracking monitors will no longer constantly show a false error for players.
• Planning area rendering is not updating if change from walls (with foundation) planning to fence planning

• All items now realize they must make noise when damaged.
• Prisoners no longer stay in a tunnel if attacked by guards outside of the tunnel
• Inmates can now move after doing a rough sleep in solitary.

• Bottom Right Menu Buttons will now only show notifications at the proper time.
• Dead guards can no longer serve as bodyguards.

Hey Wardens!

Prison Architect: Jungle Pack Key Features:

Jungle Pack (2.99 USD/ 2.09 GBP/ 2.99EUR)

• Becoming One With The Jungle - New features and items based around nature and wooden materials, to help support your prison in a greener way.
  • New Trees - Two new trees have been added, one for just aesthetic purposes and the other as a new export variant for logs and wooden planks.
  • Wooden Items - New Variants of existing items made from wooden materials, such as: guard towers, benches, tables, serving tables, drains, and beds.
  • Blending In - A new CCTV camera has been added that has been camouflaged to match its jungle-themed destination. It may be less hidden if placed inside...
• Fever That Holds You Tight - A terrible affliction has been added with this pack that can cause severe damage to your prisoners, luckily your staff need to have all their vaccinations to be able to work at your prison. So that's nice.
  • Fever Starts - This event can be enabled from the creation menu but within the game it is first brought into your prison by either deliveries or visitors.
  • Fever Spreads - If a prisoner comes into close proximity to an infected item or individual they will have a good chance to gain the affliction.
  • Fever Burns - The fever will have 3 stages with symptoms getting worse as time goes by, if left alone victims will die.
  • Visitor Reception - Using this new room, any civilians who come to your prison can be checked over for both contraband and for their health, anyone showing signs of infection will be sent away.
  • Fire Pits - these lovely big structures not only light up large areas of your prison but they will also keep the "bugs" away from any prisoner within their radius keeping them safer.
  • Netted Beds - to prevent your inmates from becoming afflicted during their sleep, these new beds will give any prisoner who uses them a short immunity due to the high quality of netting used.
  • Treatment Program - To keep your inmates safer for longer, this new medical program will boost your inmates health for a number of days and make it so that they can frolic safely and freely locked behind jail doors and walls...
• Visuals - Your prison can't only run smoothly and efficiently, it also has to look good too, right?
  • Uniforms - It's that time again, the third uniform pack has arrived! Change up the style of your prisoners and staff once more with this green theme.
  • Flooring - 5 new flooring types have been added, 2 types of stone tiles to decorate the inside of your prison along with 3 more natural looking flooring types to decorate the outside of your prison.
  • Water - Although yes water is also a flooring type, we felt it needed its own section. The new murky water type is available to give your prisoners a more natural but also less clean appeal which we're sure that you will enjoy.
  • Walls & Doors - A new type of jail doors and walls have been added, the rusted kind. This set of fortifications come with multiple flooring types below each of the walls and of course both a standard and a large variant for the doors.
  • Clock Face - If you ever wanted a slightly more retro looking clock face well now you have it.
  • Karr Hide - This well dressed chap is an expert within a jungle environment and will be able to teach your Snipers how to properly use a scope.

Jailhouse (Free Update)

Update Features

• New Sniffer Dog - It would be unfair of us not to share this sunshine boy with you, so please enjoy the wonder that is Toby and all that he stands and rolls over for.
• Idle Guards - We've made it so that now instead of having large numbers of Guards idling within the delivery area they will now prioritize more important areas of the prison.
• Deployment Scheduler - The scheduler menu has been given a small makeover to improve the user experience, making it clearer and easier to use.
• Quick Build Materials - Now when using a quick build, the last material selected will be saved when using that quick build again.
• Identity Thief - We've re-balanced the Identity Thief reputation so that it can't take over your prison quite so easily.
• Suppression Effects - Inmates will no longer be turned insane as easily when being handled by guards.

Jungle Pack and The Jailhouse Update Releasing Tomorrow, February 7th, on PC, Xbox One & PlayStation 4!

Jungle Pack (2.99 USD/ 2.09 GBP/ 2.99EUR)

• Becoming One With The Jungle - New features and items based around nature and wooden materials, to help support your prison in a greener way.
  • New Trees - Two new trees have been added, one for just aesthetic purposes and the other as a new export variant for logs and wooden planks.
  • Wooden Items - New Variants of existing items made from wooden materials, such as: guard towers, benches, tables, serving tables, drains, and beds.
  • Blending In - A new CCTV camera has been added that has been camouflaged to match its jungle-themed destination. It may be less hidden if placed inside...
• Fever That Holds You Tight - A terrible affliction has been added with this pack that can cause severe damage to your prisoners, luckily your staff need to have all their vaccinations to be able to work at your prison. So that's nice.
  • Fever Starts - This event can be enabled from the creation menu but within the game it is first brought into your prison by either deliveries or visitors.
  • Fever Spreads - If a prisoner comes into close proximity to an infected item or individual they will have a good chance to gain the affliction.
  • Fever Burns - The fever will have 3 stages with symptoms getting worse as time goes by, if left alone victims will die.
  • Visitor Reception - Using this new room, any civilians who come to your prison can be checked over for both contraband and for their health, anyone showing signs of infection will be sent away.
  • Fire Pits - these lovely big structures not only light up large areas of your prison but they will also keep the "bugs" away from any prisoner within their radius keeping them safer.
  • Netted Beds - to prevent your inmates from becoming afflicted during their sleep, these new beds will give any prisoner who uses them a short immunity due to the high quality of netting used.
  • Treatment Program - To keep your inmates safer for longer, this new medical program will boost your inmates health for a number of days and make it so that they can frolic safely and freely locked behind jail doors and walls...
• Visuals - Your prison can't only run smoothly and efficiently, it also has to look good too, right?
  • Uniforms - It's that time again, the third uniform pack has arrived! Change up the style of your prisoners and staff once more with this green theme.
  • Flooring - 5 new flooring types have been added, 2 types of stone tiles to decorate the inside of your prison along with 3 more natural looking flooring types to decorate the outside of your prison.
  • Water - Although yes water is also a flooring type, we felt it needed its own section. The new murky water type is available to give your prisoners a more natural but also less clean appeal which we're sure that you will enjoy.
  • Walls & Doors - A new type of jail doors and walls have been added, the rusted kind. This set of fortifications come with multiple flooring types below each of the walls and of course both a standard and a large variant for the doors.
  • Clock Face - If you ever wanted a slightly more retro looking clock face well now you have it.
  • Karr Hide - This well dressed chap is an expert within a jungle environment and will be able to teach your Snipers how to properly use a scope.

Jailhouse (Free Update)

Update Features

• Capacitor Max Plus - Power Management has always been a challenge, but this new and more powerful (and more expensive!) capacitor may just make it a little easier. This feature is being finalized and will be in the next update.
• New Sniffer Dog - It would be unfair of us not to share this sunshine boy with you, so please enjoy the wonder that is Toby and all that he stands and rolls over for.
• Idle Guards - We've made it so that now instead of having large numbers of Guards idling within the delivery area they will now prioritize more important areas of the prison.
• Deployment Scheduler - The scheduler menu has been given a small makeover to improve the user experience, making it clearer and easier to use.
• Quick Build Materials - Now when using a quick build, the last material selected will be saved when using that quick build again.
• Identity Thief - We've re-balanced the Identity Thief reputation so that it can't take over your prison quite so easily.
• Suppression Effects - Inmates will no longer be turned insane as easily when being handled by guards.

Future Tech Pack Fixes:

• The Tracking menu should no longer stack now
• The handgun and stun baton now correctly render in prisoner hands
• The new future tech cosmetic uniforms no longer have the wrong alignment for the portable medikit backpacks
• Electrified fence now treated as both connectable wall and fence to allow correct door placement
• The advanced search light now shows an error when it is not connected to a CCTV monitor for it to work
• Tracking menu should now scale properly in higher resolution screens.
• Fixed so that doctors and guards have the visitor reception as an idle room
• Fixed so that the robot dog now has a sound when it gets damaged
• Fixed so the robot dogs now have there alternative sniffing sound
• Adv Search light cone should now be shown when the searchlight base outside screen limits
• The router now no longer has a shadow
• "Big head mode" will now cause tracking belts to overlap prisoner's heads
• Guards no longer drop keycards with the Future Tech Pack locked
• The requirements for Future Pack items are now displayed via the Utilities menu
• Dogs will no longer "grow hands" to open doors with keys or keycards
• The Tracking menu will now show prisoners with Pack specific ailments

Undead Pack Fixes:

• Updated Bounty Hunter logic to prevent potential sticking
• The lock/unlock cctv option is no longer locked behind Undead Pack

Multiplayer Fixes:

• Clients are now able to equip prisoners with the tracking belt in multiplayer
• Clients are now able to see the Electrocution effect for climbing electric fences
• The range of routers are now visible for clients
• The revoke belt access UI now syncs correctly for all players
• The Available guard value is now synced between host and client

Misc Fixes:

• Fixed Desk rotation orientations for Quick Build rooms.
• Planning tool no longer allows Fence Walls to be build indoors
• Fog of War is no longer toggled on automatically for warden mode
• Dogs will no longer be left unconscious due to their handlers being injured
• Fixed issue with policy window not showing some policies when Cleared For Transfer is disabled.
• Guards no longer layer over each other when too many of them are aboard the ferry at the same time
• The 'Use Cell Quality Ratings' option should now automatically assign prisoners to cells more efficiently
• Second Chance DLC signs are now aligned with other signs.
• Fixed an issue with snipers not applying damage to inmates
• Fixed so that snipers can now also idle in the staff room
• Birthday presents are no longer obscured when placed on Bunk beds
• Gardener jobs will no longer be displayed within construction menus
• Orderlies will no longer have any issue sedating an insane prisoner
• The planning tool now preserves objects / paths when foundations are placed
• The Scanner machine & scanner monitor are now highlighted for the delivery room
• The single sofa will now satisfy the requirement for staffroom
• Supplies can no longer be stopped from being unloaded from the first boat for Island plot Disconnected maps.
• Staff and prisoners no longer have recovery blocked by illnesses when bedridden.

Console Specific Changes

• Assign Doctors / Cooks - Both Doctors and Cooks can now be assigned to specific Infirmaries and Kitchens respectively.
• Bookshelf Literacy - The bookshelf item will now cater to an inmate's literacy need as it does so for PC platforms.
• End Punishments - Via the prisoner's punishment menu it is now possible to end any punishment that is currently being applied to that inmate.

Misc ConsoleFixes

• The polaroid now shows up for the kitchen snapshot
• Pest control workers do not infinitely loop.
• Hides the CCTV view cone when the searchlight is on.
• Influence system has now been fixed so that it will broadcast to all valid cells
• Guard towers can't be built on walls
• Make sure to only set stations as jobs for prisoners when using prison labour
• Doors are no longer being overwritten by walls, which causes the area to be inaccessible after walls finish built
• Walls now blocked by all trees correctly. Code matched to Console version

Prison Architect: Jungle Pack Key Features:

Coming February 7th for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

Prison Architect: Future Tech Pack Key Features:

• Advanced Searchlights
  • This technological marvel tracks misbehaving inmates. Equipped with a CCTV camera, a dramatic cone of light, and a siren, nothing will go unnoticed. The best thing? You can operate the searchlights yourself!
• New floors, Futuristic Doors, and Keycards
  • Squares are a thing of the past — embrace the future with hexagonal and triangular tiles. Thanks to the new shiny keycards that open every futuristic door, your guards won't need keys anymore.
• Tracking Devices
  • Equip the most troublesome prisoners with tracking devices. Through this new section in the security menu you can select which prisoners need extra monitoring. The tracking devices will allow them access through designated keycard doors, tell you instantly of any new addictions, and, most importantly, instantly inform you if they dare to leave the range of your routers using the new tracking monitors in the security room.
• Structural Updates
  • Say goodbye to concrete walls and welcome Glass. With Glass walls, you can keep an eye on your inmates at all times. Who needs privacy? If you deem it necessary, there is also an Electrified Fence at your disposal.
• Aesthetics and Robot-Dogs
  • We have reworked the design of inmates' and staffs’ uniforms, for a more futuristic look. And don’t forget Subwoofer and Byte, the two new robot guard dogs.

Future Tech Pack Full Details (2.99 USD/ 2.09 GBP/ 2.99EUR)

• Security - a group of new devices based around the idea of increasing the security levels of your prison.
  • Electrified Fences & Glass Walls - These new wall types are designed to help manage your prisoners by both helping to keep them inside whilst also helping to keep an eye on what they do whilst inside.
  • Prisoner Tracking - Prisoners can be equipped with tracking belts which all them to be tracked within your walls - which allows you to monitor their health and misconduct.
  • Keycard Doors - Jingling metal keys are a thing of the past. These new door types will use keycards along with the new tracking belts; though this level of access can be revoked at your own discretion.
  • Advanced Searchlights - This technological marvel tracks misbehaving inmates automatically. Equipped with a CCTV camera, a dramatic cone of light, and an incorporated siren, nothing, and no one will go unnoticed.
• Video Booths - These new devices offer your prisoners the connection to their loved ones that they need without the risks of physical meetings.
• Personnel - The people using the technology is just as important as the technology itself; until the robots take over that is, luckily at the moment though they still take orders and treats.
  • Stun Batons - Equipping your prison with better tech is one thing, but equipping your staff is even better. With Stun Batons, your standard guards and any riot guards that are called will be better able to handle any confrontations that do happen.
  • Robot guard Dogs - These good lil bots "Byte" & "Subwoofer" are more than happy to help in securing your prison. They may be not have the best battery life when compared to their fur-covered brethren but they make up for it with their improved detection skills.
• Alexis Lin - When looking to the future of your prison security needs, no person is better equipped for the job of managing your prison. Alexis is highly trained in the art of prisoner suppression and misconduct management.
• Visuals - Function is important but so is the aesthetic, and I will fall on this perfectly symmetrical hill if I must.
  • Uniforms - The second uniform pack has arrived, with this pack both your prisoners and staff will gain a new futuristic style to complement the other new additions.
  • Flooring - Every angle besides a right angle isn't necessarily a wrong angle. Embrace the future that are Triangular and Hexagonal flooring tiles.
  • Clock Face - When time becomes confusing and jumps forward, you can now keep record of it with a nice fancy blue clock face - ooh.

The Slam (Free Update)

Update Features

• Visitor only Zone - A new sector that will be prioritized by civilians, allowing them to enter or exit the prison through specific points.
• Deployment times - Two more time slots have been added to the Deployment Scheduler, allowing for more control over your guard deployment.
• Quick Connect - This wiring option has been improved so that only specific items will be wired to one another.
• Gang Segregation - This gang feature has now been updated so that non-gang members will now be blocked from using cell blocks or dormitories assigned to gangs.
• Staff Rota - You can now choose how many staff can take breaks specifically for Guards, Workers, and Cooks, instead of a general setting for all staff.

Future Tech Pack and The Slam Update Releasing Tomorrow! November 22nd!

Future Tech Pack (2.99 USD/ 2.09 GBP/ 2.99EUR)

• Security - a group of new devices based around the idea of increasing the security levels of your prison.
  • Electrified Fences & Glass Walls - These new wall types are designed to help manage your prisoners by both helping to keep them inside whilst also helping to keep an eye on what they do whilst inside.
  • Prisoner Tracking - Prisoners can be equipped with tracking belts which all them to be tracked within your walls - which allows you to monitor their health and misconduct.
  • Keycard Doors - Jingling metal keys are a thing of the past. These new door types will use keycards along with the new tracking belts; though this level of access can be revoked at your own discretion.
  • Advanced Searchlights - This technological marvel tracks misbehaving inmates automatically. Equipped with a CCTV camera, a dramatic cone of light, and an incorporated siren, nothing, and no one will go unnoticed.
• Video Booths - These new devices offer your prisoners the connection to their loved ones that they need without the risks of physical meetings.
• Personnel - The people using the technology is just as important as the technology itself; until the robots take over that is, luckily at the moment though they still take orders and treats.
  • Stun Batons - Equipping your prison with better tech is one thing, but equipping your staff is even better. With Stun Batons, your standard guards and any riot guards that are called will be better able to handle any confrontations that do happen.
  • Robot guard Dogs - These good lil bots "Byte" & "Subwoofer" are more than happy to help in securing your prison. They may be not have the best battery life when compared to their fur-covered brethren but they make up for it with their improved detection skills.
• Alexis Lin - When looking to the future of your prison security needs, no person is better equipped for the job of managing your prison. Alexis is highly trained in the art of prisoner suppression and misconduct management.
• Visuals - Function is important but so is the aesthetic, and I will fall on this perfectly symmetrical hill if I must.
  • Uniforms - The second uniform pack has arrived, with this pack both your prisoners and staff will gain a new futuristic style to complement the other new additions.
  • Flooring - Every angle besides a right angle isn't necessarily a wrong angle. Embrace the future that are Triangular and Hexagonal flooring tiles.
  • Clock Face - When time becomes confusing and jumps forward, you can now keep record of it with a nice fancy blue clock face - ooh.

The Slam (Free Update)

Update Features

• Visitor only Zone - A new sector that will be prioritized by civilians, allowing them to enter or exit the prison through specific points.
• Deployment times - Two more time slots have been added to the Deployment Scheduler, allowing for more control over your guard deployment.
• Quick Connect - This wiring option has been improved so that only specific items will be wired to one another.
• Gang Segregation - This gang feature has now been updated so that non-gang members will now be blocked from using cell blocks or dormitories assigned to gangs.
• Staff Rota - You can now choose how many staff can take breaks specifically for Guards, Workers, and Cooks, instead of a general setting for all staff.

Fixes & improvements

Undead

• Guards will no longer put prisoners in cells or holding cells that contain the living undead. They’ll now clear the room.
• Fixed missed case where zombies clear target in chase target logic if target loaded into object
• On-Screen Visual Effects no longer trigger in Escape Mode
• The warden in Warden Mode can now no longer become undead. They just become dead.
• Cleaned the art for a couple of sprites in the Undead pack
• Undead no longer get big heads through mutator.
• Undead no longer imitate trolls by spawning under bridges.
• Warden is now able to target zombies within Warden Mode

Escape Mode

• Escape Mode Players will now no longer be affected by undead danger flags.
• Pumpkins no longer change sprites when damaged in Escape Mode
• Skip button - Delivers prisoner to delivery zone if no acceptable cells
• Dismiss squad member no longer shows when a the player is solo but allows the player to remove the first slot when the squad is 2 or more members
• The game over window for escape mode now correctly shows the sprite of the wardens that the players kill.
• The squad navigation sound will be blocked unless the player has at least one squad member not including themselves

Multiplayer

• Lightning will no longer freeze the screen for the non-host player
• Non-host players can now see how many Prisoners are unable to be assigned a Cell
• You can always see the range of guard towers now if there is a sniper assigned to the tower in multiplayer

Miscellaneous Improvements and Fixes

• Options to choose between the new clock types have been added to the existing clock type menu and added the future clock skin
• Doors have discovered that they are actually doors, and not an entity. They no longer become instantly destroyed by prisoners with the deadly trait.
• Emergencies are now correctly hidden when they should not be accessible
• Accountant sprites will no longer occur when spawning visitors via the cheat menu
• Fixed the rendering issue that was caused by the incorrect render depth/height of items placed on the shelf.
• Cooked food is no longer taken to the pantry. Cooks have realized that the food is meant to be eaten.
• Dripping pipe sounds now only happen when the item is connected with water
• The "Random" wardens and dog option can now be a saved preference"
• Weapons are now showing correctly in all orientations
• Fixed orientation issues with guards to prevent precision errors
• Guards manning monitoring stations, are now able to look for misbehaving prisoners if Prioritized Monitoring is enabled
• Brick and Concrete walls are no longer duplicated in the planning build tool
• Workmen now use chainsaws and axes to cut down trees instead of bare hands.
• Cooks have realized that food should be on the serving table, not under it.
• Renamed "searchlight" items to "search light"
• Staff can now use snack machines in rooms not marked as Staff Only areas
• Planned doors now correctly check if neighboring planned foundation cell to update indoor status
• Large Planned doors now have both cells indoor status updated"
• Fixed inventory crash in Warden Mode.
• Quick build edge walls will now replace wall material if different to quick build.
• Staff room can now only be linked to a kitchen if staff needs are enabled.
• Reworked the quick connect system to allow for more than one favored target for each wired object.
• Fixed issue with yellow line tiles not being saved correctly before completion.
• Gang bandanas will now always be rendered no matter when the option is enabled
• Fence Wall added as a "plannable" Fence.
• The range duration for guard towers is now bound to real life time not game time
• Reduced the render depth of coffee machines
• Trees planted in the indoor tree planter have had their placement corrected
• Prisoners are no longer prevented from using the ferry as a path to Canteens
• Food is now placed on the correct side of secure doors
• Fixed policy load preferences when “Cleared for Transfer” isn't active
• Fixed missing characters certain languages
• Fixed translation of "Language" for Traditional Chinese

Prison Architect: Future Tech Pack Key Features:

Coming November 22nd for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

• The Dead Walk the Earth - Through the new Undead option, your prison can become festered by an undead scourge. These hostile little biters can appear via the Ornamental Gravestones within the new Graveyard room or from a new infection event.
• Who you gonna call? Bounty Hunters! - When things go south, call the Bounty Hunter Emergency Service: trained bounty hunters will join your fight against the undead.
• Dead Meat - To help deal with the undead in a less violent way to get those sweet sweet payments you can use new items to both lure and stop the undead whilst you secure them, using either the Undead Chum or Distraction Contraption items.

• Difficulty Settings - The new Undead option will come with 3 difficulty settings, from low to high, as the difficulty rises the Undead will become stronger, faster, and will appear more often.
• Undead Rising - These new units can appear within your walls in 1 of 2 ways, through an infection event with small numbers gaining a status that turns them or via the new Graveyard room.
• The Graveyard - A new room for you to commemorate the dead, your prisoners can use it as a place to relax during freetime. Though it does have the slight downside of having other occupants that sometimes like to come up to say hi.
• Undead Tiers - Based on the original unit that has been infected the Undead will have 3 tiers, from low to high, with higher tiered undead being faster, stronger and a little bit smarter.

• New Items - To help secure them we've added 2 new items, a lure item (totally not made from brains) and a fancy new contraption which will keep any undead in the area occupied in the most practical way possible.
• New Emergency Service - For those opposed to bitey tenants. The new Bounty Hunter emergency service will come and clear out any unwanted squatters - just give them a call and they'll roam your grounds to get rid of these undead heads.

• Bloodied Clock Face - A new clock face is available via the options menu, though it is analogue only.
• New Overlay - Through the options menu you can add a darkened overlay to add to the tone of your new undead filled prison, the overlay also comes with an optional distortion effect that will occur when major events happen.
• Staff Uniforms - The first pack of new uniforms has arrived, aptly named as undead uniforms, giving all your base staff a bloodied survivalist look to them.
• New Items - We've added some graveyard inspired items that your past just-going-through-a-dark-phase self would love.
• New Weapons - With the bounty hunters come some new weapons to use to take on the undead horde, a couple new guns and a crowbar. Oh and also a Chainsaw because let's be honest, we had to right?

• New Dogs - We always love new dogs so of course we needed to give you some more in the form of a sweet little corgi and a ball of love in the form of a Siberian husky, who is the best girl. No bias.
• New Quickrooms - 3 more quickrooms have been added to help ease your prison creations, with a new Security, Kenell, and Parole quick room.
• Camera Improvements - cameras can now be locked in place and have their monitors given a priority for guards through a new policy, which will also prioritize other security items.
• Empty Room - Following a lot of feedback and suggestions we've added a new empty room which can be used to help you in sectioning your prisons into different sectors without needing to wall everything off.

• New Dogs - We always love new dogs so of course we needed to give you some more in the form of a sweet little corgi and a ball of love in the form of a Siberian husky, who is the best girl. No bias.
• New Quickrooms - 3 more quickrooms have been added to help ease your prison creations, with a new Security, Kennel, and Parole quick room.
• Camera Improvements - cameras can now be locked in place and have their monitors given a priority for guards through a new policy, which will also prioritize other security items.
• Empty Room - Following a lot of feedback and suggestions we've added a new empty room which can be used to help you in sectioning your prisons into different sectors without needing to wall everything off.

• Non-host players in multiplayer can on longer overwrite the base game quick builds with their own builds
• Multiplayer Host’s saves for quick builds are no longer nonexistent to the other players.
• Report Tooltips have been taught that, while important, we don’t need to see them in Bureaucracy, Graph or Prison Grading tab
• You no longer need a microscope to view certain texts in some languages.
• The Play Button has been glued down. It no longer moves when rescaling premade prisons UI.
• Overlay text when building a foundation is fixed
• Female prisoners have been allowed to show their hands properly when angry/fighting
• Cleaning Graffiti now properly allows objects to be moved in the room.
• Personal Sprite Prisoners are considered cool enough now to be in a gang.
• Custom saved quick builds are not available for selection due to it being locked by bureaucracy
• Deaths caused by execution will no longer take over your prison log
• Clicking the top part of the report will now properly open the report
• "Staff Category" no longer changes into "Prisoner Category" when adjusting the 'Needs' window
• Inventory view buttons no longer disappear
• Rats are no longer part chameleon and able to hide under gang graffiti
• Utility menu and Green Power Energy Sources are no longer flickering in campaign "Palermo"
• The Prison and Prisoner Logs have been taught that all deaths are important enough to record.
• Highlight box is no longer missing while holding left click or right click and dragging.
• Text overlap present in various menus in multiple languages has been fixed
• The Prison Log now understands we only need to hear about a new gang fight once
• Prison Labour Rooms can become completely unusable for Prison Labour when placed next to certain other Rooms
• The Staff Icons in the Job Tab now show correctly.
• Prisoner no longer leave this plane of existence by simply stepping on a ferry.
• Player can no longer change Gang Difficulty between 'legacy' and 'enhance' via map setting mid game
• Staff have decided to once more eat a balanced diet. No more do they munch on snacks alone.
• Psychologists have stopped shapeshifting in the staff menu and when hired
• An audit has occurred. Now prisoners in the reminder message are once more the same as the number stated in the ‘Needs’ report.
• Criminally Insane can now comfortably rest in Coffin Beds as they’re now included in the room requirements for Padded Cells.
• Padded Cells are only for the Criminally Insane Prisoners once more. No more assigning others to there.
• Minor text overlap in Intake menu when players enable criminally insane prisoner intake without having any padded cell has been fixed.
• Prison Log is no longer accessible when using certain methods when Free for Life DLC is disabled.
• Certain contraband no longer has placeholder property 'contraband_ExtraContraband' in the Dangers view
• Save Cloned DLC Room are no longer still visible and placeable even if the related DLC content pack is disabled
• Prisoners no longer hang out in cells when they’re having shower time.
• Medical Beds have had their resurrection abilities removed.
• Visitors are given a age and that's it with no name age shouldn't matter they're dead
• Infection event Doctor call has 'strangely' spelled correctly now
• Wall prices apply once more when placing foundations
• Prisoners with Babies have been shown how to do Breathe Therapy properly
• When on resolution 1600x1024 in the policy menu it no longer cuts off some of the text
• In multiplayer the non-host players can now access Guard Rank
• Privilege Policy now works properly for all programs.
• The flooring sprite tile on the original door position no longer seems to be rotating based on the state of the door
• Debug menu to trigger a calamity is now working properly
• Chief and Armed Guard are no longer always in Freefire mode, even though Freefire is not active in the Chapter 5 Bootstraps campaign.
• Serving tables no longer overlap certain other sprites.
• The drinks can, when searched as contraband, is no longer weirdly oversized
• Editing one type of object from the "Utilities" no longer causes destruction of another type
• The player can now manually assign laundry distribution to multiple sectors
• The demand and supply bar for prisoner meals now no longer exceeds the black box when the eating schedule starts
• Reoffended prisoner's name is no longer missing on the sent back message
• Prisoners needs speech bubbles are now translated
• The name of the Rooms and Quick Build items now has spacing between the items above and below on the menu
• Staff have now been shown how to properly wash trays once more on certain pre-made maps.
• '*X' can no longer be observed behind Prisoner name in the Released Prisoners menu
• Workmen are no longer able to become noncorporeal and walk through closed jail doors in search of food waste to clear.
• DLC exclusive Saved Preferences can no longer be loaded when those DLC are disabled
• Some minor UI issue when sentence period become negative no longer occurs
• Tall Fridge contents no longer turn visible after being moved
• Saved quick build presets now transfer between save files
• The prison creation menu has been further simplified.
• The tainted flooring no longer defies its own name and lets plants grow on it
• Repeated crashes no longer occur and make by no the game unplayable
• The Pull-Up bar now casts a properly sized shadow upon the ground
• 2 polaroids are no longer unlocked automatically whenever the player boots up the game
• Mutators are now included in the save preference
• Barbed Wire can no longer be placed on fences in ways which define logic and the rules of physics
• All Policies are now carrying over to newly created prisons
• Prisoners have had their privileges restored. Please carry on with making them work for their keep
• Water, Water (Shallow) and sand floor tile can't be cloned on PC
• The non-host players in multiplayer can now enable or disable 'Allow Staff Keys' option, even if the host is the first to enable or disable it.
• Allow Staff Key option is now updated for the host when client enable or disable it.
• Prisoners are now clued into the fact that Work/Lockup regime is actually still work for 'Prisoner Demand Less Work' event
• If a C.I. happens to die during a guard investigation then the investigation will still continue
• Prisoners (Player) in escape mode can no longer hide their dastardly deeds by filling in their own dug tunnels.

• Reports tooltips have been taught that, while important, we don’t need to see them in Bureaucracy, Graph or Prison Grading tab
• Prison Labour Rooms can become completely unusable for Prison Labour when placed next to certain other Rooms
• Keys 'W, A, S, D, Q, E, R, 1' and spacebar no longer gain the lazy trait and decide to stop working periodically
• Wall prices once more apply when placing foundations
• Editing one type of object from the "Utilities" no longer causes destruction of another type
• Saved quick build presets now transfer between save files
• Prisoners are no longer barred from aging as the aging feature is now available. As it should be.

• Inventory view buttons no longer can play peek-a-boo and disappear on you
• Create new prison menu is now scaling properly in 5k resolution screen
• Prison Labour Rooms can become completely unusable for Prison Labour when placed next to certain other Rooms
• Keys 'W, A, S, D, Q, E, R, 1' and spacebar no longer gain the lazy trait and decide to stop working periodically
• Editing one type of object from the "Utilities" no longer causes destruction of another type
• Saved quick build presets now transfer between save files
• Prisoners are no longer barred from aging as the aging feature is now available. As it should be.

• 'Wall Type' switching function is no longer still active when the button prompt is not visible in quick rooms
• Wooden Window (Large/Small):no longer has the incorrect sprite placement when you’re cloning it.
• Gangs will now start food fights the correct number of times
• Criminally Insane can now comfortably rest in Coffin Beds as they’re now included in the room requirements for Padded Cells.
• Double click when dismissing emergencies squads now works
• Players are able to gain experience points and money without sacrificing significant amount of needs when using non-powered workshop saw/press to work
• "Requires Water" icons are no longer small and half-transparent
• We aren’t a hospital simulator, you’ll no longer find prisoners stuck in medical
• The flooring sprite tile on the original door position no longer seems to be rotating based on the state of the door
• Cliff Edge wall type can show cost as transparent text or sometimes overwritten
• Parole room icon in quick rooms now has the proper icon
• The drinks can, when searched as contraband, is no longer weirdly oversized
• Staff have now been shown how to properly wash trays once more on certain pre-made maps.
• Brick walls are once more showing up in the build plan for quick rooms
• Prisoner log printing placeholder text for natural deaths has been fixed
• Quick Room wall selection UI can no longer become misaligned from wall type being built
• Tall Fridge UI is no longer missing a space between ingredient listing
• Starting Funds can no longer be Unlimited while difficulty displays as County
• Unavailable options are now properly greyed out when they are not selectable.
• Weird numbers no longer appearing on entities
• Warden save file no longer opens Escape mode game when accessed

Coming October 11th!

The Free for Life FREE DLC and Crowbar Hotel Patch Content:

• Prisoner Aging: Long-term inmates will now be affected by the passage of time, becoming older, calmer, weaker, and finally dying from old age.
• Guard Ranks: A number of your guards will be able to gain promotions, increasing both their stats and also their wages. When promoted all the way to being a specialist officer they will then also be trusted with a firearm.
• Building Guides: A few options have been added to make your design process a little easier. A grid overlay can be captivated along with co-ordinates for each map cell, along with a new tooltip listing the dimensions when drawing your buildings.
• Custom Quick Builds: Using the clone tool you can now save sections of your prison for later use.
• Event Log: A log of events has been added to list any happenings within your prison, with each prisoner also having their own individual logs available from their menu.
• Tidying Utilities: Utilities have been separated into three groups for electrical, water, and wiring items, to make setting them up easier.
• Regime Updates: Regime options have been updated with some existing ones changed and new ones added to lower prisoner traffic in dangerous areas such as canteens and showers. Once prisoners have finished eating or showering they can now continue to either Freetime or Lockup afterwards.
• Scheduler Updates: The program scheduler has been updated to make the management of your programs easier and clearer.
• Create Prison Menu Updates: The Create Prison menu has also been updated with settings now separated between those linked to base game and DLCs. With a new option to save your preferences to make the creation process smoother and faster.
• Policy Menu: The policy menu will also save any changes made upon being closed, with these changes being saved as your preference for any new prisons.
• There are even more smaller additions as well and we hope that you all enjoy each and every one of them!

It’s time for some improvements, Warden!

With this free update you will get:

Prisoner Log and improved Scheduler

• Always be aware of what's happening in your prison with the new Prisoner Log. Check your inmates’ activities, uncover misconducts ahead of time and keep track of who gets released, reformed, or reoffended. We also improved the game’s Scheduler, adding new options and settings in the palm of your hand.

  Save and Reuse

• Whenever you create a new prison, a new policy, or a quick build, you’ll be able to save them in your Preferences. Save time setting up your prison next time you wish to start afresh!

  Aging is caring

• Now inmates are divided into Young, Senior and Elderly. After spending an extended period of time in your prison, they will change both visually and functionally. They will also develop different needs compared to younger inmates.

  New Guards ranks

• Hired guards will now arrive at your prison unranked and will need to work hard to get promoted to Officer and Specialist Officer. Their commitment will be paid off though, as each increase in rank will provide additional perks.

  Improved building and planning tools

• The planning menu is getting renewed with lots of new options for fences and walls. Moreover, when “drawing” your walls and using construction options, you’ll see a new cursor-based tooltip stating the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the room, along with the planned cost for the currently drawn selection.

• Fixed: Cannot produce a food fight naturally
• Fixed: Confidential Informants aren't registering when hired by client (multiplayer)
• Fixed: Missing Gym Mat in the filter by room option for yard in console and missing highlight for gym mat in PC for yard area
• Fixed: Staff Pop-ups displaying during Campaign Prison Stories
• Fixed: Clicking prisoner in Security Menu will transfer prisoner to another security type
• Fixed: Guards and Foreman use wrong sprites
• Fixed: Breathe Therapy not locked when Gang is disabled and/or legacy
• Fixed: Planned assassination on gang leader can trigger without any gangs having any territories in prior
• Fixed: Visitors and staff are unable to open Double Visitor Door

• Fixed: Cannot produce a food fight naturally
• Fixed: Custom Scheduler's Search Area is incorrect
• Fixed: Game crash when player load a file with stranded removed prisoner
• Fixed: Missing Gym Mat in the filter by room option for yard in console and missing highlight for gym mat in PC for yard area
• Fixed: Bureaucracy tree treating options in the same branch inconsistently
• Fixed: Staff Pop-ups displaying during Campaign Prison Stories
• Fixed: Planned assassination on gang leader can trigger without any gangs having any territories in prior
• Fixed: Tooltip overlap with Remove Prisoner line in Prisoner Actions Menu

Tutorials:

GANGS KEY FEATURES

Details:

GANGS DLC

• New Grants - 3 new grants not only to aid the player financially but to also serve as an onboarding tool to some of the new features present within the DLC
  • Positive Energy, Advanced Protection & Gang Welfare
• New Gangs! - All new gangs complete with their own visual identify, personality and strategy - including a 'gang' of reformed ex gang members
  • Jackals, Bone Breakers and Vipers
• New Staff and Prisoner Programs - New Programs for Prisoners and a new Advanced Hand to Hand combat training for Staff Members
  • Fight Club, Gang Rehabilitation, Tattoo Removal, Faith, and Breathe Programs.
• New Rooms and Quick Rooms - Several new rooms for the player to experiment with
  • Tattoo removal room, the Cage and the Fight Club
• A 'Boiling Point' system - Detecting the 'temperature' of the gangs within the prison from the Intelligence menu
• Improvements to the Intelligence menu with more security details and options such as restricting access to certain rooms for specific prisoners, transfer prisoners, Guard assignment, Removing prisoners to other facilities (for a large fee) and marking prisoners.
• A host of new Gang Behaviors - Making Gangs a deeper gameplay experience - how gangs target prisoners, extracting a toll from non gang members and the recruitment of prisoners into the respective gangs
  • Gang Members can actively recruit prisoners, make demands and threats to the player, promote new leadership, assassinate targets and can bribe guards
• Gang 'Events' - From planned Assassinations of a Gangs leader to food fights in the Canteen - there are a lot of new methods that gangs will use to mark and defend their territory
  • Once Gangs reach a number of 20 members, they will be able to start making demands. The prisoners who are part of the Gang making the demand will Kick off and start causing problems around the prison. Jackals will start Escaping. Bone Breakers will start Destroying. Vipers will start Fighting.
• New method of contraband smuggling into the prison - Crooked Guards!
  • Crooked Guards will smuggle in contraband
• Gang grouping - Gangs will sit (such as Canteen) and move with each other as much as possible to re emphasized their strength and unity
• Territory Marking - Gangs will mark their territory with graffiti

FREE UPDATE (KITE)

• Wardens - 2 new Wardens
• Guard Dogs - 4 New Guard dogs
• Fill Capacity - Fills in specific missing Prisoner Security Levels
• Manual Cell Swapping - The ability for the player to move an inmate to another cell within the same Security Level
• Prisoner Replacement - Maintain the same number of prisoners within their prison based on their specific security levels
• Room Size Mutator - Mutator that removes any room size requirement
• Prison Creation (New Game Menu Cleanup) - Cleaning up the number of options in the drop down menus
• Prisoner Mail - Prisoners can send and receive mail
• CCTV Improvement - New Vision Cones, Toggle, Triggering Waypoints of Prisoner Misbehavior - improvements are locked behind a new branch in the Bureaucracy Tree
• New Intake Logic - Once prisoners get off the bus, the bus will leave. Prisoners will no longer wait by the Delivery Room. The Prisoners will make their way to the reception without the need of guards. Once in the Reception, they will behave as normal and be searched by Guards.

FULL KITE PATCH NOTES

• Fixed when "Empty the Rat Trap" hint appears without the "Pest Control Training" program learned
• Fixed so pest control units are able to completely remove rats from prison
• Fixed so food trays don’t disappear after they have been used
• Fixed so pastry isn't placed on the Cake Stand / Display Counter
• Fixed so Weather Antenna doesn't become very dry (No one likes dry humor)
• Fixed so Rat Trap and Sonic Rat Deterrent can be placed on Stations and Backup Generator
• Fixed Black outline appears on Utility items while the map is zoomed out
• Fixed so Game doesn't crash after every attempt to create 1x1 Quick Island on map with turned on "Generate Buildings" option
• Fixed Significant FPS drop when using the "Sell Flooring" tool on the whole prison map
• Fixed so emergency services don’t pass by if delivery zone is full
• Fixed so Half-finished Quick Room construction isn't canceled after reloading the map or changing language
• Fixed "Other Daily Income" and "Other Daily Expenses" in localizations
• Fixed so Broken by rats fence doesn't have the "None" tooltip anymore
• Fixed Ordering and directing an emergency squad actions does not have strange sound effect
• Fixed so Pest Control Workers don't get stuck in solitary cells (They do not deserve it!)
• Fixed possibility to reveal more tunnels
• Fixed Double action when prioritizing/deprioritising the door placement
• Fixed Prisoner set to released after soaking in Escape mode
• Fixed Incorrect Quick Rooms construction on the Building with automatic light placement
• Fixed Incorrect placement of the Table in a horizontal position behind the wall
• Fixed so Danger level indicator appear after hiring a Chief
• Fixed so in - crew can’t no longer be recruited through the walls with the cursor
• Fixed so Repairmen do not rebuild floors/walls that have not yet collapsed in some Premade Prisons
• Fixed so Subsidence warning triangle display
• Fixed 'Prioritize Area' selection doesn't skip from 3 - 1 when reducing assigned staff numbers
• Fixed Emergency service helicopters take off instead of remain on the helipad after their recall if it's not connected to delivery
• Fixed so Game launch after pressing play/resume on PDX launcher
• Fixed text on Farm Search Frequency section of Japanese translation
• Fixed '-$*A' showing up in all the non English translation of Dock (Wooden)'s description
• Fixed so the fence is built with functional doors in it (We like to be able to actually use doors)
• Fixed incomplete description on power usage in The Treadmill
• Fixed the light placed over a Treadmill so it doesn't hide the "Requires Electricity" icon
• Fixed Incorrect number of items required for unlocking the next item in the 'Green Machine' Grant
• Fixed Incorrect Execution Report window description with Failure Conditions off
• Fixed expand Prison Architect menu's pictures are shown over the Escape Mode Trial
• Fixed so Fire sprinklers have time to extinguish fire as pipes burn faster
• Fixed Missing Foreman notification after Falling Tree event
• Fixed so when moved, Buoy's light works
• Fixed Game crashes after using the "Dismantle Object" tool on trees
• Fixed so damaged crops can’t be watered
• Fixed Bureaucracy - The research queue freezes in saves
• Fixed so all hired doctors aren’t located in one infirmary ignoring all other infirmaries with injured prisoners
• Fixed so "Scanner Machine" is displayed with the "Object Type: Security" filter
• Fixed so The Staff menu doesn't open after the member of the Pest Control is selected
• Fixed so Player can’t place trees and Grove from Quick Build until Grounds Keeping is unlocked
• Fixed so Event tasks in the Todo and fines disappear after disabling Events
• Fixed so Pantry can be linked to Exports in Logistics
• Fixed so CCTVs display the right tooltip if there is no one behind the monitor
• Fixed so CCTV operators continue working when the 'Stay Indoors' command is activated
• Fixed so repairs to Legacy Subsidence are not being destroyed after a few days
• Fixed so Legacy Subsidence doesn't display the "rat damaged" prompt while DLC is locked
• Fixed so the Repairmen doesn't make water areas harder to restore after a nearby Subsidence
• Fixed Crashes hosting a DLC game when player lacks dlc
• Fixed so you can’t clone collapsed walls and fences
• Legacy events won’t happen as frequently
• Fixed so your Warden won’t change back to the default warden during a reload or a land expansion
• If there is a land expansion the cable protectors will not be deleted with the expansion any more
• Dismissing Air Pest Control in the air will not cause empty helicopter to arrive
• Air Repairmen will now work on disconnected islands
• Fixed so Rebar reinforcement can be used on several Premade Prisons
• Fixed so Sonic Rat Deterrent placed in the Kitchen actually prevent Food Poisoning
• Sonic Rat Deterrent will not blocks aisles any more
• The game will no longer get stuck if calls are received during the Failure screen
• Fixed so Gritting Frozen Ground doesn't take priority over any other task including manually-assigned high priority ones
• Fixed so the food isn’t cut off in the top or bottom fridge position
• Incorrect events will no longer trigger Janitor's calls
• Fixed so it’s possible to call Repairmen with disabled Weather
• Fixed so that a phone call won’t disappear after loading a save with an active call
• Fixed Inconsistent cloning behavior of objects from the Utilities menu
• Fixed Prison Coverage Plans daily expenses are improperly calculated into Cashflow Out
• Fixed so Plumbers actually do stuff on Escape Mode (Hey, we pay you to do the job!)
• Fixed so Missing assets are found for emergency services in victims section of the summary
• Fixed so Unconscious state due to damaged cable can’t be skipped with 'Skip Punishments' button
• Fixed so Stamina bar isn’t displayed on Shift button and decreases even if player does not move
• Fixed so Pest Control Workers can't be controlled anymore
• 24hr Clock setting works more properly now
• Fixed so Salt from Road Maintenance truck doesn't lingers for Client in Multiplayer session (Don’t be salty)
• Dialogue window can’t unpause the game anymore
• Fixed Incorrect description of Utility Retrofit Grant
• Found the missing hints in the "Direct Squad" tooltip for Plumbers and Air Plumbers when Emergencies menu is open
• Fixed so Object dismantle area looks the same for other Players in MP
• The nearest vertically oriented Guard's Locker is placed better now. We hope.
• Blinking objects on the map are no more
• Guards deliver more visible food to prisoners on Lockdown/Solitary (We want real food!)

• Fixed the second set of fists appearing in the inventory in Escape Mode. One set is fine, thank you.
• Fixed so Cable Protectors can be placed on inbuilt Transformer cables

• Fixed so the Polish name for walls is the same and not two different styles.
• Fixed so Pest Control workers are responsive whenever Stay Indoors is activated
• Fixed the translation of a "Air Pest Control" for Russian
• Fixed the volume confusion (Hello?)
• Fixed so Dutch language pack Legal text in Options menu is written in better letters
• Fixed so Snipers on the Guard Towers actually go inside when "Stay Indoors" emergency action is enabled

• Fixed when "Empty the Rat Trap" hint appears without the "Pest Control Training" program learned
• Fixed so pest control units are able to completely remove rats from prison
• Fixed Incorrect work of "Dismiss Squad" function for Road Maintenance
• Fixed so Coverage text is not written in capital letters on all updated language packages
• Fixed so The Colored Room Overlay is applied immediately
• Fixed so all Emergency Commands - Tunnel Search, Shakedown, and Narcotic Search can be deactivated during the pause
• Fixed FPS issues when there is a land expansion in any given direction
• Fixed so Subsidence warning is not visible on maps without DLC
• Fixed so Mysterious Crates are not present on maps without DLC
• Chapter 1 death row cutscene is no longer disrupted by utilities tutorial
• "Cannot enter: Riot" pop-up can’t be observed anymore on the main menu
• Fixed so the Road Gate texture appears while opening Deployment tab
• Fixed Available mods list is truncated if at least one mod is active
• Med Sec prisoner will not longer have Legendary reputation without being Legendary prisoner
• DLC content is no longer available on saved maps with disabled DLC
• Fixed the Fighting between a laundry basket and a table on Paradise City (It was a fun ride though)
• Fixed - Two pairs of hand sprites are no longer displayed when the prisoner attacks the guard (One pair is Enough!)
• It is now possible to control time modes using keyboard
• Texts are no longer overlapping in the 'Grading' section in the 'Prisoners' info
• Electrician Training will have the right equipment now
• Rat traps will no longer be moved from the training room when a rat is trapped there
• Fixed so Wooden Window (small/large) and Stained Glass Window are hidden behind the workman's sprite during transfer
• Some of the premade maps had trouble with the shakedown function when newly created. They won’t have anymore. We fixed it.
• You are now able to dismiss Drainage specialists when they are triggered by the Prison Restoration Plan events
• Tables will not overlap with other objects inconsistently anymore.
• Fixed so Psychiatrists will hire SFX typical for the Administrators group
• Fixed the Unfinished Display counter sprite during placement
• Several UI overflowing issues in Restaurant room's Labour Management has now been fixed
• Fixed the Security levels' work time text overflows in the "Labour Management" window.
• Player is no longer able to build wall on wall panel by building a foundation
• Fixed so the heads of prisoners in the "Map settings" window does not change when adjusting its size. (Sorry for the nightmares!)
• Fixed that some reminder message's content were duplicated.
• Some object filter options were not translated for Japanese. They are now!
• Translation used for the 'Environmentally Friendly' title in the Going Green Information Tab II is now correct again!
• The value of the adjustment criteria is now reset to the default value if it has been changed to N/A
• The default difficulty of pre-made map "the Farm" is no longer "Сustom"
• Number of some available staff displayed in the staff summary is now correct for Players
• Icons for laundry-related tasks in Jobs are now fixed.
• Text no longer overlaps with a character icon
• 's' was added behind the title of some staff displayed when player click on the 'Assign *Staff*' in the Deployment Menu in all languages. This has now been resolved.

• Fixed so Chapter 5 campaign doesn't crashes midway after first requirement is met
• Fixed when Crew members become stuck in tunnels when set to 'Attempt Escape'
• Fixed The Backup Generator connected to the unpowered cables outputs power units
• Fixed when stationed guards do not search objects within reach
• Fixed Imbalanced visiting of the Bakery

Prison Architect: Gangs Key Features:

“The Roundhouse” Update

• Fixed so cable protectors can now be attached to transformers