How to Assign Prisoners to a Canteen?

[Magnetar]

So im new at this and am having extreme difficutly figuring this out. I built my canteen with a connecting kitchen and everyghing has water and electricity, however I still cannot get the prisoners to eat there and I don't understand why. The cook I hired is not cooking, I even put a little walkway from the door of the holding area to the canteen but still nothing is working and I don't know what to do, please help.l

[MuchMucho]

Make sure the prisoners have access to the canteen, meaning make sure you dont have staff only arreas blocking the path.

Other then that use the logistics and use food deployment, red dot are for prisoners to go to canteen yellow are from kitchen to canteen, make sure prisoners go to canteen not to kitchen, and kitchen are assigned to canteen

[Magnetar]

nothing is blocking their paths but I have no idea what your talking about when u talk about the food deployment and red dot stuff

[Wakey]

You can "research" logistics which will let you manually tell prisoners where to go to eat. And where the cooks should deliver food.
But newest patch came with a bug that sometimes makes it impossible to get it working. No matter if you do it manually or not.

[Hentaisocial]

Are your prisoners moving around otherwise? Typically people see this issue because their prison is not secured (i.e. fully enclosed with a fence or wall) so the guards aren't letting them out.

[Rice Bandit]

The same exact thing is happening for me. ;(

Does this mean I have to start all over again???? :P

[Ugh]

Logistics aka Micromangement.

After that has bene researched, go into logistics blue tab manually do it.

[Marlboro]

I'm having a similar problem, my prisoners won't leave there cells at all they just sit there demanding me to feed them even though they won't leave there cells to eat the canteen says "No prisoners assigned to this canteen" even though i assigned them to it.

[Rice Bandit]

I hope they fix this soon

[Jet City Gambler]

Do you have a fence or wall keeping everything enclosed? A few buildings in the middle of a meadow do not a prison make.

If there's a free path (meaning, no staff-only or jail doors) between them and the edge of the map, then your prison is nothing more than a motel. No one's going anywhere until you create a perimeter.

[Rice Bandit]

No nothing is surrounded and the Jail Cells are right across from the Canteen. This only happend after this update...

I may as well just wait t'ill its fixed.

[Magnetar]

Originally posted by thestonemushroom:

No nothing is surrounded and the Jail Cells are right across from the Canteen. This only happend after this update...

I may as well just wait t'ill its fixed.

What he is saying is that the prison has to be "encapsulated" by at least a fence. This is because the guards will not let the prisoners out if they will be able to escape, and they will since there is no walls stopping them when they go to the canteen. This is what fixed it for me I just walled the prison in and walla it was fixed. At least just try putting fences around so they cannot run off map.

[lissa_981]

nothing is going to be 'fixed' these are not bugs they are user errors. You must prevent prisoners from escaping, this is jail not summer camp. If gaurds think prisoners have unempeeded access to the edge of the map they will not allow your prisoners out of thier cell area. It's that simple. Be sure your prisoners are properly contained and set your food logistics (see below) and everything works as intended.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=440940758

[Rice Bandit]

Oh ty :D

[no]

mines doing the same thing and i even did what is looked like on the Pic :P

[lissa_981]

COuld you pot a couple of screnshots please?