Cell shower bug

[whalesharker]

So ever since the update that added cell quality my Prisoners will all crowd into 4 cells with showerheads in them instead of the designated showerrooms during showertime, this of course means that my prisoners don't end up showering and then riot.

[Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy]

Do you have a designated shower room in those cells? If so, remove, obviously.

I'll assume you just have showerheads in there for the rest of this.
Have you tried removing the showerheads, waiting a bit and then perhaps putting them back in?

If you don't want to give up the prison you can temporarily circumvent showertime by putting showers in the Yard or Canteen and using the respective regimes.

[whalesharker]

Thanks for the reply, I'll try removing the showerheads first (although I put then in pretty much every cell )

[lissa_981]

If you have showerheads in every cell you may consider substuting LD time for shower. That's what I do, then add some showers to the yard for anyone that wants to shower mid day.

[hamdawg87]

Make sure the entire enclosure (what you're probably referring to as the cell) is all designated as a single contiguous Cell as its actual room type including the shower head. Removing the Shower room designation from the shower in a cell may not be enough.

[Münster Mike]

The problem with having showerheads in every cell is that you can't effectively designate them as shower rooms usually, as you're finding out - and right after sleeping is precisely when they all need showers, which means Lockdown isn't a great solution either - because they won't wake up for Lockdown.

You would need something that wakes them up and keeps them in their cells for it to be a truly effective strategy.

Otherwise you could make a small shower (you need half as many showerheads as prisoners using the room for a one-hour shower time to cover everyone), or you could put all your showers in the yard and drag them out there first thing in the morning.

You could make one-square Showers (w/door) at the entry to a cell, like a hotel room bathroom. The operative AI routine is to head to the nearest Shower room when the clock strikes. So this is where your design acumen comes into play, knowing this about the AI means you should be able to design something that works. But it will involve a lot of extra room because of the need to separate cell from shower with a door. I find shower rooms in the entries of the cell blocks themselves to be the easiest way to knock out this need. They get dragged out of bed into the shower, then since they're all massed up near the cell block entry, they next go straight to the chow hall en masse.

[whalesharker]

Lissa's solution is working pretty well, I'll see if it might be a problem with the room type too...