Why won't my Prisoner's use Canteens? Always says No Prisoner's Assigned

[cwattyeso]

Was playing the game over the weekend for the first time in several months. Started a new prison and all was going okay. After about 12 hours of play all of a sudden none of my prisoners are able to eat food, because they don't go to any of the canteens I have around the prison. Every Canteen has a Red Flashing Exclamation Mark Icon on it saying no Prisoners are Assigned. I can't see or figure out how I'm supposed to assign prisoners to canteens or why it's no longer doing it automatically after it was working fine for several hours, where my different prisoners i.e. min security, medium, max etc all had their own canteens where they didn't interact or engage with prisoners of different ranks.

[The Queen Salis]

maybe a piece of fence got damaged? or the game glitched out and thinks your courtyard is insecure.

[cwattyeso]

Why would fences have anything to do with my prisoners not eating or being able to use Canteens? The Canteens are inside the prison, my Prisoners are inside the Prison. My Prisoners never go outside the Prison or need to. I don't see how can't access the Canteen, especially when many of the Dorms and Cells are right next to the Canteens. Weirdly Prisoners have no issue getting to my Showers, which are directly opposite the hallway

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by cwattyeso:

Why would fences have anything to do with my prisoners not eating or being able to use Canteens? The Canteens are inside the prison, my Prisoners are inside the Prison. My Prisoners never go outside the Prison or need to. I don't see how can't access the Canteen, especially when many of the Dorms and Cells are right next to the Canteens. Weirdly Prisoners have no issue getting to my Showers, which are directly opposite the hallway

outdated mods by chance? just a guess. i had that happen before.

[cwattyeso]

I could accept that if it was broken from the start and didn't work. However like I said I played the game perfectly fine for 12 hours, with Canteens working and Prisoners eating okay and then suddenly all prisoners seem to have lost where the canteens are or aren't assigned to them. I've tried de-zoning them and making them shared use again rather then stipulating which class of prisoner can use which canteen. I've checked in logistics and my Kitchens are setup to provide food to the canteens. I just can't get my prisoners to go to them, like I said some of them are in cells two squares from the canteen and can't find it.

[ephemeraltoast]

Are all the hallways and such leading to the canteens zoned appropriately as well?

Can you provide some photos? It might help ID a problem.

[Ironmonkey380]

I believe once you research "Micromanagement" in the Bureaucracy tree, you will now have to assign the canteens using canteen logistics. Did you happen to research "Micromanagement" yet?

[cwattyeso]

I'll have to check that, though I suspect I do have that has have researched everything available in the Bureaucracy Tree, pretty sure there isn't anything left for me to unlock.