Laundry - To those with problems (solutions)

[fidelio]

sure there are some bugs in the laundry system but a little understanding goes a long way, so here's a little of what i've learned through experimentation about the laundry system which may help some of you out.

1. if there's an empty basket and dirty clothes in cells, the basket will get moved and uniforms collected.
2. once collected the basket will get moved to a laundry room. if there's empty space in a washer the dirty will be put in.
3. if there's clothes in a finished washing machine and room on an ironing board, the crumpled clothes will be moved to the ironing board.
4. if there's less than 20 stacked uniforms on the finished end of the ironing board, crumpled clothes will be ironed.
5. if there's an empty basket in the laundry room, ironed uniforms will be put in it.
6. if there's a bed without a uniform, a basket with finished uniforms will be moved to the cellblock, and the uniforms placed on the bed.

if in working reverse up this list any of the conditions are not met, the process at that point stops. this doesn't mean it's not working, or the conditions will never be met, it just means a job for the duty won't be created, until it is needed.

so for example;
1. if there's an empty bed, and no basket with fresh uniforms in it, it won't get moved to the cell.
2. if there's no empty basket available, no fresh uniform can be put in it.
3. if the stack of fresh uniforms on the ironing board reaches 20, ironing will stop, until the stack is moved.
4. when ironing stops, no washed laundry will be taken out of the washing machine.
5. with no empty washing machine, dirty laundry won't be put in to wash.
6. with no empty basket (emptied into washing machine) to pickup dirty laundry, the clothes can't be cycled to the other steps.

knowing where your laundry system is hanging up is the first step in fixing it. not all laundry problems are bugs.

edit: typos

[fidelio]

want to see this stuff in action?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=152195399

[Milty]

My issue with the laundry was that the room would not allow me to place workers (yes prison labor is unlocked in Beurocracy and worked for my kitchen) ... As I understand so far, guards by default will work the laundry if they are not busy or assigned to an area. My prison was just starting out (day 8) so 4/9 guards had no assignments. One guard started the laundry cycle, but had to abandon it due to some ruckus over unclean clothes. He never returned to it nor any other guard.. By day 10 mass rioting insued, all other needs besides clothing were decently met. =(

in the middle of step 1. Anyone else?

[fidelio]

guards will move uniforms delivered to the prison, to the laundry room, but they won't do laundry.
as for assigning workers, make sure you have door(s) on your room, and it's sometimes necessary to designate or undesignate the square underneath the door as laundry, in order to get it to separate correctly.

[Dr. Plague]

So how do I fix the problem then? I'm sitting here with baskets of clean folded clothes in a cell block, that aren't being placed on empty beds, meanwhile I have an empty basket in my holding cell with dirt laundry in there and an empty basket, but no one is moving dirty laundry to the empty basket. Instead everyone that works int he laundry room, stands in a huddle in the laundry room and does nothing.

[Grat Dalton]

To fix the laundry room alpha10 bug try this. No need to have a crazy amount of ironing boards, washing machines or laundry baskets. Results will vary depending on prison layout.

Step 1: Just after work regime starts, dezone all cells by selecting rooms/cells. Now right click & drag to dezone all cells.
Step 2: 30 minutes before work regime ends, rezone all cells.

After rezoning cells, all prisoners will have handcuffs on & guards will escort prisoners back to cells. After prisoners are in cells gaurds will remove handcuffs & all is back to normal.

Thats it, simple? well i found a few things you need to do so this procedure flows better.

In step 2, your time may differ. You will want the prisoners in cells before next regime starts so the prisoners don't miss next regime. No problem if prisoners miss next regime, but they may get angry due to not fulfilling needs.

Some dirty clothes will be on back cell walls. Laundry works will need a secure access route to back of cell walls to retrive them. If its not secured they will escape. LOL

One more thing, you will need to do steps 1 & 2 everytime for work regime.

[Bovine]

Maybe I missed something, but I don't have an ironing board at all and I have no problems with laundry getting done? their clothing need is satisfied too..I've seen them put the new ones on

[Air Bear]

Mine wouldnt let me assign prisoners to the laundry room until I made it bigger. Also it seems that if you make any changes to a room that guards or prisoners are assigned to, they all get unnassigned.

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my guards just refuse to move uniforms from delivery into prison GRRRRRR............

[GoodGuy759]

my prisoners doesn't do the washing they have collect the washing but they wont do anything after that...

[fidelio]

did they move the basket with the dirty laundry to the laundry room? if so, do you have an empty washing machine available?

[Jojo]

I am having the same problem. I have 3 laundry baskets full of unwashed clothes, 3 empty washing machines and no washed clothes...they just stand around doing nothing.

[Abbott]

My laundry room could accommodate 18 prisoners, and there are still some prisoners complaining about no clothes. Is there any way to fix this?

I only have around 35 prisoners by the way.

[GC13]

How many prisoners are assigned to the laundry? How many hours a day do they work? How many laundry baskets do you have? Where in your prison is your laundry? All of these are factors.

I've never had a problem with clothing, though I know it's still a confused system that would cause trouble for some if prisoners were programmed to riot. I get by with just three to five prisoners in my laundry, and a enough laundry baskets for them to make the rounds.

[Milty]

for me what fixed this.. if you have any dirty clothes that got stuck in a cells wall remove that wall until they pick up the dirty clothes

Other than that I just added a bunch of baskets, increased the laundry room size but only kept 4 employees for my 6 cell blocks of 10 prisoners each.. obviously not everyone is going to have the same size or dimension prison, but don't place as many workers that will fit in the room to start off

[Bamwich]

Stuck in the cell wall? Are you still playing on Alpha 10? Uniforms in walls was fixed in A11. There's a small exe floating around called LaundryArchitect that will move all your dirty uniforms to laundry and clean them for you if that's a problem.

Laundry is fixed and working in Alpha 11, with the exception of prisoners with baskets clipping corners sometimes. With one prisoner per basket and two prisoners per washing machine, there should be no problems with transport and turnover. Everyone else can hang out until collection or distribution time. The prisoner vortex is gone, so it should be very straight forward to make and maintain a 20 person laundry.