What changed in Prison Architect in 2013

New Road Gate can be built to span roads, allowing secure deliveries between prison sides.

All 'Name in the Game' customers can now customize the size, face type, and color of their prisoners.

Players can now harvest lumber from forests, process logs into planks, and create a profitable wood industry.

Extended mod system allows sharing and downloading mods via Steam Workshop.

New Road Gates can be built to span roads, allowing secure deliveries between prison sides.

A vast collection of bug fixes included in the update.

All 'Name in the Game' customers can now customize the size, face type and colour of their prisoners.

Extensive improvements to AI allow full segregation of prisoners based on category, enhancing gameplay.

New options to procedurally generate starting landscapes with lakes, forests, and derelict buildings.

Prisoners can now notice when their route to freedom is not locked and may attempt to escape if they are close to an unlocked exit.

Extended mod system allows sharing and downloading of mods via Steam Workshop.

A vast collection of bug fixes have been implemented in this update.

Players can now fully segregate their prison based on prisoner category, improving efficiency in kitchens, canteens, workshops, and laundries.

Prisoners can now notice when their route to freedom is not locked and may attempt to escape.

New options to generate starting landscapes with lakes, forests, sand, and derelict buildings.

Players can now harvest lumber from forests and process logs into planks for profit.

A new official mod system to support community-made mods, allowing easier activation and deactivation.

Optimizations that virtually double the speed of the game in certain conditions, especially on large maps.

All staff now become tired as they work, requiring them to rest in a newly added Staff Room.

All staff now become tired as they work, requiring rest. A Staff Room has been added for recovery.

Added Staff Room with sofas and drinks machines for staff to recover faster.

Optimizations that virtually double the speed of the game in certain conditions, especially on large maps.

Includes screen edge scrolling, faster time acceleration button, and larger federal grants for max security inmates.

New mod system allows easier activation and deactivation of community mods without hacking game files.

Includes screen edge scrolling, faster time acceleration button, and larger federal grants for max security inmates.

Sun shadow rendering is now much more efficient

A crash bug that occurred in extremely large prisons (more than 10,000 individual objects) has been resolved.

Dogs will no longer be taken to the medical ward when injured. They heal when resting in the Kennel.

The planning tool was not saving properly.

Shackled prisoners will no longer try to walk towards the guard who plans to search them.

Sun shadow rendering is now much more efficient.

Shackled prisoners will no longer try to walk towards the guard who plans to search them

The planning tool was not saving properly

Fixed a crash bug that occurred in extremely large prisons (more than 10,000 individual objects)

Dogs will no longer be taken to the medical ward when injured. They heal when resting in the Kennel.

Dogs are faster than guards and can chase down escaping prisoners.

Dogs will scratch and bark when they sense escape tunnels, revealing them if a prisoner is digging below.

Players can now hire dogs and handlers to patrol and sniff for contraband.

The pathfinding system has been optimized to run on a separate processor, improving performance in large prisons.

Players can now sell their prison and transfer profits to a new location.

Improved performance for large prisons and prisoner populations with optimized pathfinding.

Players can now hire guard dogs along with handlers to patrol and sniff for contraband.

Dogs will scratch and bark to indicate nearby escape tunnels.

Dogs are faster than guards and can chase down escaping prisoners.

Players can now sell their prison from the Valuation screen, transferring profits to a new location.

Tooltip added to clarify how to assign guards to patrols.

Patrol positions were not being saved properly.

Resolved issue causing failure to subdivide the map into sectors, affecting pathfinding.

Prevented prisoners from changing into clean uniforms.

Patrol positions were not being saved properly.

Punishments maxed out at five hours, regardless of settings in the Policy screen.

Bug prevented prisoners from changing into clean uniforms.

Punishments maxed out at five hours, regardless of settings in the Policy screen.

Tooltip added to clarify how to assign guards to patrols.

Resolved failure to subdivide the map into sectors, which caused pathfinding to fail.

Players can build tall, deep, and expensive Perimeter Walls to prevent tunneling.

Prisoners can now dig escape tunnels using stolen tools, cooperating to escape faster.

Prisoners can now dig escape tunnels using stolen tools, cooperating to escape quicker.

New 'Policy' report allows players to set punishments for fighting, stealing, and rioting.

Players can request automatic searches of prisoners and their cells after incidents.

Players can request automatic searches of prisoners and their cells when they misbehave.

Players can research and unlock a new Policy report to manage punishments for prisoners.

Players can build tall, deep, and expensive Perimeter Walls to prevent tunneling.

Four categories of contraband introduced: Weapons, Tools, Narcotics, and Luxuries.

A new button in the main toolbar shows an overlay of all possible sources of contraband within your prison.

Almost every room in the game is now a source of dangerous contraband which prisoners can steal.

Guards can interrogate prisoners to find out how contraband items entered the prison.

Almost every room in the game is now a source of dangerous contraband which prisoners can steal.

Contraband found by guards in the past 12 hours shows up as a green circle, revealing its origin and history.

Contraband is categorized into Weapons, Tools, Narcotics, and Luxuries, each with various items.

A new 'Contraband' button in the main toolbar shows an overlay of all possible sources of contraband.

Prisoners will steal items they want and may trade stolen items for desired contraband.

New reports screen showing the Supply and Demand of all types of contraband within your prison.

A new reports screen shows the Supply and Demand of all types of contraband within your prison.

Fixed memory leaks and performance bugs, resulting in smoother gameplay.

Players can now purchase neighboring plots of land after researching 'Land Expansion'.

Objects toolbar now highlights useful objects based on the current view.

Objects toolbar now highlights useful objects based on the current view.

Fixed memory leaks and performance bugs, resulting in smoother gameplay.

New feature allows recording of timelapse videos of prison construction.

Players can now purchase neighboring plots of land after researching 'Land Expansion'.

New feature allows recording of timelapse videos of prison construction.

Fixed issue where clothing needs led to riots, making laundry functionality fairer.

Fixed issue where clothing needs led to riots before laundry could function.

Players can now share and play custom prisons via Steam Workshop.

Prison Architect now offers builds for Linux users, compatible with various distributions.

Introduction of a prison-wide 'Thermometer' to track overall danger level based on prisoner anger.

Players can now share and download prisons via Steam Workshop, allowing for community sharing of designs.

An entirely new anger model has been implemented, affecting how prisoners express anger and the overall danger level in the prison.

Prison Architect now supports Linux with builds available via Steam and standalone download.

Workshops have been added, allowing prisoners to produce items like car license plates for sale.

Prisoners can now perform various jobs around the prison, including working in the kitchen, cleaning, laundry, and workshops.

A fully prisoner-run laundry system has been implemented, where clean uniforms are distributed and dirty ones are collected for washing.

Prisoners can now receive visits from family members, which will affect their happiness.

Workshops have been added for prisoners to produce items like car license plates for profit.

Prisoners can now perform various jobs around the prison, including working in the kitchen, cleaning, laundry, and workshops.

Main toolbar icons have been replaced with cleaner, higher resolution versions.

Main toolbar icons have been replaced with cleaner, higher resolution versions.

Prisoners can now receive visits from family members, which can improve their happiness.

Visual improvements to grime, dirt, and overgrown areas around the prison for better aesthetics.

A fully prisoner-run laundry system has been introduced, where clean uniforms are distributed and dirty uniforms are collected for washing.

Visual improvements to grime, dirt, and overgrown areas around the prison for better cleanliness indicators.