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gma2001

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I can manually assign which canteen I want the prisoners in the holding cell to go to, but the game does not let me do the same with the cell blocks.
Yes, I have logistics and Micro Management unlocked
No, nothing prevents them from entering the canteen, neither objects nor the sectors (the path from the cell block to the canteen is shared)
I tried to load another prison that had started a long time ago, the canteen was assigned manually, I removed it and tried to reassign it manually again and I couldn't.
 
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I can manually assign which canteen I want the prisoners in the holding cell to go to, but the game does not let me do the same with the cell blocks.
Yes, I have logistics and Micro Management unlocked
No, nothing prevents them from entering the canteen, neither objects nor the sectors (the path from the cell block to the canteen is shared)
I tried to load another prison that had started a long time ago, the canteen was assigned manually, I removed it and tried to reassign it manually again and I couldn't.
i have the same issue
 
Same issue. but lets try and add more info for any potential devs looking at this.
In my case this is occurring with assigning family cells to a nursery in a block which needs multiple canteen assignments.

I can make the assignments, and see a solid red line (making me assume this is allowed and works.) this also validates the room removing the ! Warning on canteen assignment. However prisoners in these cells will starve. I've noticed locking down the prisoners does not cause the guards to fetch food for them either.

I assume that because these blocks are split (non-family cells on one side and family cells on the other) that the default canteen selection (the non-nursery one) is conflicting (or taking priority) over the manually assigned ones. the only available work around I know of is to rebuild the blocking a way that all cells direct to one canteen.

ver: the_glasshouse_1.03 pc steam (mar 23 2021) | r5590 B:67
Mods: none
Expansions: - Cleared for transfer
- Psych Ward: wardens edition
- Going Green

other details:
staring new prison after selling previous,
large map, female prisoners, no mutators, gen. forest, gen building, CI inmates, Dynamic Reps, transfers, staff needs, weather and temp, gangs, escape attempts, The ecologist,
 

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I have the same issue with food distribution and laundry distribution. I can go into the view through Logistics, but I cannot re-assign any wing to a different Canteen or Nursery. I can do it with my older prison, but my newer one refuses to let me do it.

The only difference between the two is the old prison was a men's prison with some land purchased; the newer one is a women's prison with no land purchased (started Large)