How to create a Island?

[PascallieKwallie]

Hello! I'm seeing many Island like Prisons. My question is, how could you do that? How can you place water?

[SteddyNCC78339]

You can't place water yourself. When you start a mew map you can specify to Generate Water, much like Generate Forests and Buildings works. But other than that there is no other way to get water maps in the vanilla game.

[Trixi]

well in the workshop there is a mod, which allows you to place water.

[SteddyNCC78339]

Yeah but I don't like the potential problems that come along with some mods for PA so I don't advocate their use, or use them myself.

[Dawn]

I have been working on a save file editor in html 5. It can't edit much yet. I plan to get it to the point where you can make starting prisons with it. How? By crafting an image file, opening it in the web page, and having it translate to the materials portion of the save file. No objects or people or anything like that. Just materials like floors and walls. The indoor flag will be set for all materials... so an interior wall likely won't get marked as inside... but there are no cases I know of where that seems to be important. If it does become important, you'd need to use two colors for indoor and outdoor walls... like you have to do with Concrete Tiles. I do warn against building a prison with no walls though. I tried that. http://steamcommunity.com/app/233450/discussions/0/496881136912048213/

Its not hard to edit the save file manually with a good text editor. Also, if you mess something up, at least you know you didn't get a virus. There is even a guide at
http://devwiki.introversion.co.uk/pa/index.php/.prison