Why is Laundry not working

[wilmer007]

10x8
8 Ironing Boards
4 Washing Machines
4 Baskets
Deployment is set to Shared (white)
all 20 prisoners assigned to work at laundry

and the prisoners just walk in and just stand around doing nothing while the clothing need bar still stays at orange because everyone is inside but doing nothing.

janitor comes in and does the job fine.
what's going on

[wilmer007]

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[Trixi]

Screenshots please

[Pinchy]

I had exactly the same issue. Not enough laundry baskets. I had dirty clothes piled high, clean clothes piled high and no janitors or "workers" doing anything in the laundry. Built a load more laundry baskets and problem resolved. I have 6 washing machines, 4 ironing boards and about 20 laundry baskets now and issue went away.

[wilmer007]

Originally posted by Pinchy:

I had exactly the same issue. Not enough laundry baskets. I had dirty clothes piled high, clean clothes piled high and no janitors or "workers" doing anything in the laundry. Built a load more laundry baskets and problem resolved. I have 6 washing machines, 4 ironing boards and about 20 laundry baskets now and issue went away.

i filled the room with like 20 baskets and they still wouldnt do anything. nothing i try works.

[Pinchy]

oh - I don't know then - I remember when I had the issue I did a manual clearance of the laundry as well - I set all the dirty and clean laundry to "dump" and then once that was moved and the new laundry baskets were in place it fixed it - I assumed it was just the laundry baskets.

[Pinchy]

not sure if it is relevant - but I also didn't build the new laundry baskets in the laundry.. I built them on the path outside and then they started moving them around...

[CloudSeeker]

64 inmates can be handled by 1 washing machine, each washing machine needs 2 ironing boards and each basket can hold 16 inmates so you need 4 for each washing machine. So you need 1 machines, 2 ironing boards and 4 baskets for every 64 inmate. You have to many washing machines or way to few baskets. Also just because you can have 20 in it doesn't mean they will all be effective. It doesn't actually require a lot of inmates to handle a Laundry so many will just have nothing to do. Are you sure there are not prisoners collecting and giving out new cloths? If they are you are just overstaffing.

[Myrador]

without a screenshot its difficult to say:
no workers ( janitors or assigned prisoners) is what it sounds like

[wilmer007]

well i just did a few tests:

fired all my janitors and only hired one prisoner = prisoner did all the work minus delivery.

however clothes are still not being delivered to cells. so i went ahead and made all the cells shared to see if that would fix the issue and nope cells are not getting new clothes.


however i created like 30 beds inside 3 holding cells and the janitors delivered clean clothes to the holding cells.


in short i think they are working and it was just a matter of the prisoners having no work in laundry because all the work has been done but for some reason the clothes just aren't being delivered.


i know a big problem has to do with how the game forced the baskets to be filled up first rather than they delivering a partial basket or having the intelligence to combine multiple baskets into one.


i'm sure that i just have to wait for a clean basket to be filled first before it gets delivered but it shouldn't be like that.

[lissa_981]

There are 2 most frequest causes of this issue. The first is outdoor corridors. For some reason the game has issues with laundry delivery under these circomstances. Pave you hallways and it will fix this. Second is incorrectly set deployment. Go to you logics tab (laundry) and ensure that EACH cell block is connected with a solid line (shift click to assign mubtable caell blocks)
There is a 3rd possibility, but it only happens if you have more then 1 laundry splitting the job of servicing your prison. Laundry gets tagged for a specific cell block, but due to your logistics set up it can't be delivered. This is where the dump all the laundry suggestion comes in. As you didn't mention multable laundries this is most likely not your problem.
Lastly be sure you have plenty of baskets and a table in the room to aid the folding/sorting process.
For more secific advice please post a screnshot.

[Shaldoryn]

5 years later, same bug.. Each time I'm facing a bug, I see it existed long time ago already. I'm usually not bug-sensitive, but this game, omg.. when functional aspects are broken, it just lets with frustration of not having other options.. As soon as you don't design a big square with cells all horizontally aligned, all is broken. Not sure what I will do with that game now, I should probably just throw it in a galaxy far far away

[Don]

Originally posted by lissa_981:

There are 2 most frequest causes of this issue. The first is outdoor corridors. For some reason the game has issues with laundry delivery under these circomstances. Pave you hallways and it will fix this. Second is incorrectly set deployment. Go to you logics tab (laundry) and ensure that EACH cell block is connected with a solid line (shift click to assign mubtable caell blocks)
There is a 3rd possibility, but it only happens if you have more then 1 laundry splitting the job of servicing your prison. Laundry gets tagged for a specific cell block, but due to your logistics set up it can't be delivered. This is where the dump all the laundry suggestion comes in. As you didn't mention multable laundries this is most likely not your problem.
Lastly be sure you have plenty of baskets and a table in the room to aid the folding/sorting process.
For more secific advice please post a screnshot.

"Second is incorrectly set deployment. Go to you logics tab (laundry) and ensure that EACH cell block is connected with a solid line (shift click to assign mubtable caell blocks)"

That solved all my problems.