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Hi there,

I'm experiencing lots of bugs that all seems to be related to one violent event in my prison. This is not the first time of this saved game that this occurred, but somehow it got resolved the last time when I restarted the game - this time it's not resolving. What happened before it occurred (likely) is an outburst of violence in the canteen, nothing out of the extraordinary, several guards perished because of a very resistant inmate. Many other prisoners died as well, about 2 staff and 4 inmates total. Many other inmates were invovled trying to attack guards, other inmates, or simply grabbing dropped weapons/keys off the floor so they ended up either unconscious, hurt or shackled waiting for solitary or lockdown around the crime scene.

After a few in game hours i realised that the number of waiting solitary weren't decreasing and other bugs appeared overtime :
- Multiple prisoners occupying solitary cells, one of them waiting to be escorted back to cell forever until starvation
- Prisoners waiting to be taken to solitary cell forever until starvation
- Prisoner intake staying outside of prison waiting to be taken to reception forever until starvation
- Dead bodies not cleaned out of prison
- Injured not escorted to infirmary and staying shackled until starvation
- Food trays not cleaned by cooks becoming huge piles of trays everywhere in the canteen and staff canteen, have to be trashed

When looking at the job queue, a lot of them were inconsistent with current time/regime (like taking job at laundry room when everyone is sleeping), and staying there forever/not fulfilled (staying yellow) - (by the way it would be really great to be able to cancel jobs in the queue, so that us player can at least debug our game when something is stuck, which is not that uncommon)

Every time I restart the game it seems to be resolving at first (solitary queue working again) and some guard would start escorting prisoner but after a few in game hours it would again get stuck and guards not dealing with dead/injured/shackled/new prisoners anymore.

It seems that something or someone is causing the job queue to be stuck... Maybe a job assigned to someone that passed? Even after a job reset (restart of the game) after a while the buggy job is back. I can't figure out which one it is.
I join my save game so you can see for yourself :)

Thanks a lot guys !
 

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I have the same problems and can 100% reproduce the issues you are describing. Also, anything I do is incredibly delayed in my prison.

I can reproduce:
  • huge piles of food trays in the staff canteen and cooks do nothing (I have to trash the trays)
  • injured or prisoners with the overdose status are not escorted to infirmary
  • new prisoners take forever until they are taken to reception and then to their cell (three days for 20 prisoners)
  • a weird looking list of pending jobs

Other problems I have:
  • buildings take forever to complete, e. g. 22 x 50 squares takes up to three days and longer (workers chill in the delivery zone instead of working)
  • my tomatoes / potatoes expire before my farmers can collect them (actually most farmers chill near the delivery zone instead of working)
  • punishments such as lockdown or solitary takes several days
  • laundries are no longer working (I have to trash both used and new uniforms)
  • small tasks like repairs take several days
  • areas are suddenly flagged as "too dangerous" and workers refuse to go there, even though the newly build cell block has no prisoners or cells yet
  • goods don't arrive in the delivery zone in time, it some times takes days, so a cloned area can be finished by workers
 
I have build three different prisons from scratch and every time I run into the problems described above. The game is currently broken and needs to be patched as soon as possible. The problem does not occur, as long as I do not have any prisoners.


Any developers or Paradox representatives around?

@emmasterakia @Fifnaril

 
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Another bug that exists for almost a year: no new uniforms are deployed to small cells or to cells, where the bed is enclosed by a wall.

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The kitchen bug also still exists. If you build a new fence around your prison -- after lands expansion -- it takes ages, until the game considers that new area being "secure". For me it took about 2 days in game... and all cooks refused to cook something in the kitchen, until the area was declared being "secure" again. For god's sake, please fix this bug already, it exists for more than THREE years.

Other threads:

There are even more threads on Steam. This is another game breaker...