Prison Architect

Prison Architect

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gummyonion Nov 2, 2015 @ 10:24pm
Any tips on trying to complete the achievement for collecting bible pages/polaroids?
I've heard some people make new prisoners and try to find bible pages that way, but is it an efficient way to get all of the bible pages? Like, is it possible to get duplicate pages, because I know I've found duplicate polaroids.

I also can't tell if trying to find the polaroids would be harder or easier. On one hand, even though there are a lot of polaroids, a lot are already unlocked, but then I seem to be having a tough time trying to spot them within my prison. Then again, it sounds like certain events trigger the unlocking of the polaroids like getting certain wardens or prisoners.

Currently, I'm at 6/78 bible pages and 162/177 polaroids just from playing campaign and playing a sandbox prison. Any tips on how to find all of them would be great. :resmile:
Last edited by gummyonion; Nov 2, 2015 @ 10:25pm
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Captain Crummy Nov 3, 2015 @ 3:04am 
bible pages spawn randomly each full game day (24 ingame hours). They spawn anywhere (contrary to popular belief they only spawn outside).

Polaroids are event specific. Most of them can be found in the campaign. In sandbox mode you need certain prisoners to unlock certain polaroids and certain events need to happen.

Polaroids can duplicate, bible pages don't (I got the achieve for all bible pages yesterday, still need about 3 roids).

So bible pages are random and spawn each day, polaroids do not.

Edit:

Certain polaroids I've found after an event:
janitor.png - this roid is left randomly when a janitor cleans an area
warden.png - spawns randomly in the wardens office
Kitchen.png - spawns randoml when cooks are cooking
Fightaftermath1 and fightaftermath2.png - spawn randomly after a fight in your prison (I believe one requires a true riot)
Canteen.png - spawn randomly when prisoners are eating
Phonecall.png - spawns randomly when a prisoner made a phonecall
Solitary 1 and 2.png - spawn randomly when prisoners are in solitary
recroom.png - spawns in the common room
jailbird.png - not sure but I think it spawn in a reception or delivery area (when prisoners arrive)
Workout.png - Spawns near weight benches in the yard (not sure if it happens in the common room too)

These roids are prisoner specific, transfer them to your prison to spawn, some prisoners have 2 polaroids. Sometimes the 2nd polaroids only appears after a reload of your prison.

Adrian Awyoung x2
Chirs Salij x2
Colin Northway x2
Harvey Lodder x2
Matthew Levesque x2
Matthew Robertson x2
Pab Haring x2
Richter McMannis x2
Sven Ashnod x2
Thomas Clarck x2
Brendan Henessy
Graham Tyson
Karsten Thomas
Nikolas Federovich x2

Now Nikolas is weird since I cant seem to transfer him but I'm sure I had him on deathrow once.
Last edited by Captain Crummy; Nov 3, 2015 @ 3:21am
strange Nov 3, 2015 @ 7:59am 
Hope this is not a dumb question but how do you transfer prisoners, exactly? I have a few of these polaroids but the prisoners just arrived to my prison via the regular intake.
SteddyNCC78339 Nov 3, 2015 @ 9:13am 
Even easier way to find all the polaroids and game bibles: EDIT YOUR unlocked.txt (To get to it - THESE INSTRUCTIONS ASSUME YOU ARE USING A WINDOWS MACHINE - press the WIN+R keys and in the box that appears type "%appdata%" without the quotes. You may need to go up one level in the file structure to get the right place - you need to be in the AppData/local folder) file. If you add the following:

GameBible_0
GameBible_1
GameBible_10
GameBible_11
GameBible_12
GameBible_13
GameBible_14
GameBible_15
GameBible_16
GameBible_17
GameBible_18
GameBible_19
GameBible_2
GameBible_20
GameBible_21
GameBible_22
GameBible_23
GameBible_24
GameBible_25
GameBible_26
GameBible_27
GameBible_28
GameBible_29
GameBible_3
GameBible_30
GameBible_31
GameBible_32
GameBible_33
GameBible_34
GameBible_35
GameBible_36
GameBible_37
GameBible_38
GameBible_39
GameBible_4
GameBible_40
GameBible_41
GameBible_42
GameBible_43
GameBible_44
GameBible_45
GameBible_46
GameBible_47
GameBible_48
GameBible_49
GameBible_5
GameBible_50
GameBible_51
GameBible_52
GameBible_53
GameBible_54
GameBible_55
GameBible_56
GameBible_57
GameBible_58
GameBible_59
GameBible_6
GameBible_60
GameBible_61
GameBible_62
GameBible_63
GameBible_64
GameBible_65
GameBible_66
GameBible_67
GameBible_68
GameBible_69
GameBible_7
GameBible_70
GameBible_71
GameBible_72
GameBible_73
GameBible_74
GameBible_75
GameBible_76
GameBible_77
GameBible_8
GameBible_9

To your unlocked file and delete the GameBible_77 line some time in the next 24 in-game hours the last Game Bible will appear and you will get the achievement and all the Game Bibles without too much work or time. The same method works for polaroids except add the following to the unlocked file:

polaroids/canteen.png
polaroids/fight.png
polaroids/fightaftermath.png
polaroids/fightaftermath2.png
polaroids/ill_Adrian_Awyoung.png
polaroids/ill_Chris_Salij.png
polaroids/ill_Colin_Northway.png
polaroids/ill_Harvey_Lodder.png
polaroids/ill_Matthew_Levesque.png
polaroids/ill_Matthew_Robertson.png
polaroids/ill_NikolasFederovich.png
polaroids/ill_Pab_Haring.png
polaroids/ill_Richter_McMannis.png
polaroids/ill_Sven_Ashnod.png
polaroids/ill_Thomas_Clark.png
polaroids/ill_adrian_awyoung.png
polaroids/ill_brendan_henessy.png
polaroids/ill_chris_salij.png
polaroids/ill_colin_northway.png
polaroids/ill_graham_tyson.png
polaroids/ill_harvey_lodder.png
polaroids/ill_karsten_thomas.png
polaroids/ill_matthew_levesque.png
polaroids/ill_matthew_robertson.png
polaroids/ill_nikolasfederovich.png
polaroids/ill_pab_haring.png
polaroids/ill_richter_mcmannis.png
polaroids/ill_sven_ashnod.png
polaroids/ill_thomas_clark.png
polaroids/ill_warden.png
polaroids/jailbird.png
polaroids/janitor.png
polaroids/kitchen.png
polaroids/phonecall.png
polaroids/recroom.png
polaroids/solitary.png
polaroids/solitary2.png
polaroids/workout.png

Remember to delete the polaroids/workout.png and you should see the last polaroid appear in 24 game hours. NB: IT IS POSSIBLE FOR YOUR WORKERS TO DUMP POLAROIDS AND GAME BIBLE PAGES BEFORE YOU SEE THEM SO KEEP A CAREFUL EYE OUT.
Last edited by SteddyNCC78339; Nov 3, 2015 @ 9:17am
Lethal Nov 6, 2015 @ 2:22am 
Is this the easiest possible way to get the achivement ?
Lethal Nov 6, 2015 @ 2:26am 
Originally posted by SteddyNCC78339:
Even easier way to find all the polaroids and game bibles: EDIT YOUR unlocked.txt (To get to it - THESE INSTRUCTIONS ASSUME YOU ARE USING A WINDOWS MACHINE - press the WIN+R keys and in the box that appears type "%appdata%" without the quotes. You may need to go up one level in the file structure to get the right place - you need to be in the AppData/local folder) file. If you add the following:

GameBible_0
GameBible_1
GameBible_10
GameBible_11
GameBible_12
GameBible_13
GameBible_14
GameBible_15
GameBible_16
GameBible_17
GameBible_18
GameBible_19
GameBible_2
GameBible_20
GameBible_21
GameBible_22
GameBible_23
GameBible_24
GameBible_25
GameBible_26
GameBible_27
GameBible_28
GameBible_29
GameBible_3
GameBible_30
GameBible_31
GameBible_32
GameBible_33
GameBible_34
GameBible_35
GameBible_36
GameBible_37
GameBible_38
GameBible_39
GameBible_4
GameBible_40
GameBible_41
GameBible_42
GameBible_43
GameBible_44
GameBible_45
GameBible_46
GameBible_47
GameBible_48
GameBible_49
GameBible_5
GameBible_50
GameBible_51
GameBible_52
GameBible_53
GameBible_54
GameBible_55
GameBible_56
GameBible_57
GameBible_58
GameBible_59
GameBible_6
GameBible_60
GameBible_61
GameBible_62
GameBible_63
GameBible_64
GameBible_65
GameBible_66
GameBible_67
GameBible_68
GameBible_69
GameBible_7
GameBible_70
GameBible_71
GameBible_72
GameBible_73
GameBible_74
GameBible_75
GameBible_76
GameBible_77
GameBible_8
GameBible_9

To your unlocked file and delete the GameBible_77 line some time in the next 24 in-game hours the last Game Bible will appear and you will get the achievement and all the Game Bibles without too much work or time. The same method works for polaroids except add the following to the unlocked file:

polaroids/canteen.png
polaroids/fight.png
polaroids/fightaftermath.png
polaroids/fightaftermath2.png
polaroids/ill_Adrian_Awyoung.png
polaroids/ill_Chris_Salij.png
polaroids/ill_Colin_Northway.png
polaroids/ill_Harvey_Lodder.png
polaroids/ill_Matthew_Levesque.png
polaroids/ill_Matthew_Robertson.png
polaroids/ill_NikolasFederovich.png
polaroids/ill_Pab_Haring.png
polaroids/ill_Richter_McMannis.png
polaroids/ill_Sven_Ashnod.png
polaroids/ill_Thomas_Clark.png
polaroids/ill_adrian_awyoung.png
polaroids/ill_brendan_henessy.png
polaroids/ill_chris_salij.png
polaroids/ill_colin_northway.png
polaroids/ill_graham_tyson.png
polaroids/ill_harvey_lodder.png
polaroids/ill_karsten_thomas.png
polaroids/ill_matthew_levesque.png
polaroids/ill_matthew_robertson.png
polaroids/ill_nikolasfederovich.png
polaroids/ill_pab_haring.png
polaroids/ill_richter_mcmannis.png
polaroids/ill_sven_ashnod.png
polaroids/ill_thomas_clark.png
polaroids/ill_warden.png
polaroids/jailbird.png
polaroids/janitor.png
polaroids/kitchen.png
polaroids/phonecall.png
polaroids/recroom.png
polaroids/solitary.png
polaroids/solitary2.png
polaroids/workout.png

Remember to delete the polaroids/workout.png and you should see the last polaroid appear in 24 game hours. NB: IT IS POSSIBLE FOR YOUR WORKERS TO DUMP POLAROIDS AND GAME BIBLE PAGES BEFORE YOU SEE THEM SO KEEP A CAREFUL EYE OUT.

A little confused here.. what is the name of the unlocked file? I don't see it
SteddyNCC78339 Nov 6, 2015 @ 2:27am 
unlocked.txt
Lethal Nov 6, 2015 @ 3:42am 
Originally posted by SteddyNCC78339:
unlocked.txt

Steddy that's great it works! I copied and pasted the coding and loaded a prison and after clicking on a random polaroid I got the achivement. Do you by any chance have a save point of a prison with a clickable bible page ? I could wait until one appears on my prison but I really feel as though I've completed the game now and wish to move on. Many thanks.
Lethal Nov 6, 2015 @ 6:24am 
Ah disregard my last post. I played through a small map campaign mission and pretty soon the bible page spawned and clicked on it, 100% ;DD
Münster Mike Nov 6, 2015 @ 8:29am 
So you hacked your game file to fraudulently get all the achievements without doing a thing... and now you've completed the game?!?

What a ridiculous farce.

Shame. Shame on you both.

This generation I swear... the lot of you never would have made it past the first level of Defender back in the day.
Last edited by Münster Mike; Nov 6, 2015 @ 8:31am
Lethal Nov 6, 2015 @ 9:04am 
Originally posted by 2.FJgJank-Hgf.:
So you hacked your game file to fraudulently get all the achievements without doing a thing... and now you've completed the game?!?

What a ridiculous farce.

Shame. Shame on you both.

This generation I swear... the lot of you never would have made it past the first level of Defender back in the day.

Shut up and ♥♥♥♥ off you idiot.
Münster Mike Nov 6, 2015 @ 9:19am 
Get a job.

And stay off my damn lawn!
Originally posted by Lethal:
Originally posted by SteddyNCC78339:
unlocked.txt

Steddy that's great it works! I copied and pasted the coding and loaded a prison and after clicking on a random polaroid I got the achivement. Do you by any chance have a save point of a prison with a clickable bible page ? I could wait until one appears on my prison but I really feel as though I've completed the game now and wish to move on. Many thanks.


Wow.

So, all you 'achieved' was cheating.

Why do people lose their ♥♥♥♥ over achievements, to the point where they're happy to 'achieve' them by not even remotely 'achieving' them? Methinks you don't quite understand the concept of earning a reward. Kids today. ♥♥♥♥♥ sake.
Originally posted by 2.FJgJank-Hgf.:
So you hacked your game file to fraudulently get all the achievements without doing a thing... and now you've completed the game?!?

What a ridiculous farce.

Shame. Shame on you both.

This generation I swear... the lot of you never would have made it past the first level of Defender back in the day.

Yep, this.
Originally posted by Lethal:
Originally posted by 2.FJgJank-Hgf.:
So you hacked your game file to fraudulently get all the achievements without doing a thing... and now you've completed the game?!?

What a ridiculous farce.

Shame. Shame on you both.

This generation I swear... the lot of you never would have made it past the first level of Defender back in the day.

Shut up and ♥♥♥♥ off you idiot.

Achievement Unlocked: Can't Handle The Truth
SteddyNCC78339 Nov 6, 2015 @ 3:38pm 
Originally posted by Lethal:
Originally posted by 2.FJgJank-Hgf.:
So you hacked your game file to fraudulently get all the achievements without doing a thing... and now you've completed the game?!?

What a ridiculous farce.

Shame. Shame on you both.

This generation I swear... the lot of you never would have made it past the first level of Defender back in the day.

Shut up and ♥♥♥♥ off you idiot.

Totally agree with you Lethal... god some people drive me insane!

Originally posted by Timothy Stain:
Originally posted by Lethal:

Steddy that's great it works! I copied and pasted the coding and loaded a prison and after clicking on a random polaroid I got the achivement. Do you by any chance have a save point of a prison with a clickable bible page ? I could wait until one appears on my prison but I really feel as though I've completed the game now and wish to move on. Many thanks.


Wow.

So, all you 'achieved' was cheating.

Why do people lose their ♥♥♥♥ over achievements, to the point where they're happy to 'achieve' them by not even remotely 'achieving' them? Methinks you don't quite understand the concept of earning a reward. Kids today. ♥♥♥♥♥ sake.

Mate do you have any idea how long it takes to identify the polaroids/game bible pages on a fully active map WITH THE VERY HIGH PROBABILITY THAT YOUR WORKERS WILL DUMP THEM BEFORE YOU SEE THEM!!!!

And also if a development company makes it so easy to find and edit the save files what do you think will happen... If it tales so long and is completely random AND has a possibility of missing it I will edit to get it. This game is the only game I have edited save files for and with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good reason too... Get off your high horse...
Last edited by SteddyNCC78339; Nov 6, 2015 @ 3:39pm
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