Alpha 15

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Modding

The mods menu

• Much better mod support within the game.
• All mods should be installed in your AppSaveFolder/PrisonArchitect/mods/ folder.
• They will then show up in a new Mods interface (Main menu -> Extras -> Mods).
• You can activate and deactivate as many mods at once as you wish.
• There are several types of mod:
  • Graphical / Presentation: Updates the graphics and sounds in the game.
  • Translations: Translates the game into languages other than English.
  • Scenarios: Full story driven chapters, similar to our Death Row introduction.
  • Content: Adds items to the sandbox or changes the behaviour of items. E.g. Grants mods which add grants.

• All mods must have a manifest.txt which details the title, author, version info, etcetera.
• And mods should come with a thumbnail.png image which will act as a graphical preview.

See also Modding and Mods.

Performance

Performance improvement

• The game now runs much faster, especially on Windows/PC.
• Lots of unnecessary memory copying has been optimized out. Makes a big difference on Windows particularly.
• Long running prisons (100+ days) sometimes experienced extreme slowdown due to the list of all contraband.
• Fixed a bug that caused the building of foundations to become very slow and laggy on large maps.
• The lighting system has been multi-threaded, freeing up much CPU time.
• The lighting system now updates at 20 Hz (previously 4 Hz), so changes in light happen quicker as well.

Staff Exhaustion

• All staff now become tired as they work.
• Their energy level is rendered as a green bar in their nameplate (only shown when less than 33%).
• When they become exhausted they will stop work for a while to recover.
• You can now build a Staff Room, and exhausted staff will go there in preference.
• Staff resting in a Staff Room will recover energy much faster, and feel more rested.

Different Federal Grants

• Minimum security prisoner: $50 per day.
• Normal security prisoner: $100 per day.
• Maximum security prisoner: $150 per day.

Note: Previously you received $100 per prisoner regardless of category.

Clock Speed

• New clock speed option: very fast.
• Runs the game at 5x speed (previous fastest speed was 2x).

Deployment

• You can then research Deployment to attach guards to stations, or Patrols to attach guards to patrols.
• This fixes the issue that you could unlock Patrols before you had access to the Deployment screen.

Navigation

• You can now scroll by pushing the mouse to the edge of the screen.

Contraband

• Dangers: Shows all the locations around your prison that contraband could be stolen from.
• 24 hours: Shows all contraband confiscated in the last 24 hours.
• 7 days: Shows all contraband confiscated in the last 7 days.
• All time: Shows all contraband confiscated in the history of your jail.

• In addition, all recovered contraband icons are colour coded:
  • Red: weapons
  • Blue: tools
  • Green: narcotics

Updates

Alpha 15b

A hotfix that was immediately released to address a bug that was introduced into the game from Alpha 15:

• Fixed: Players were unable to cancel any new jobs they created using right click.

Alpha 15c

A hotfix released to address a bug that was introduced into the game from Alpha 15:

• Fixed: Contraband was not being generated.