Prison Architect

Prison Architect

Cheat switch ON/OFF
39 Comments
cat flying on sandwich in space May 30, 2023 @ 2:25pm 
it working!! yay
cat flying on sandwich in space May 30, 2023 @ 2:25pm 
NVM
cat flying on sandwich in space May 30, 2023 @ 2:24pm 
it isnt working. when i spawn in the item it dissapears and nothing happens
Jammer Jun 26, 2021 @ 12:33pm 
Never mind
qcs2017  [author] Jun 26, 2021 @ 10:31am 
:steamthis:
Thanks for confirming that, Mook90 :steamthumbsup:
Mook90 Jun 26, 2021 @ 10:28am 
@DRjames5 it is still working bro
qcs2017  [author] Jun 25, 2021 @ 8:16pm 
Sorry I can not help you with that. I can not play the game anymore due to technical reasons not caused by me. :steamsad:
Please check if the small description in the commend by Mook90 helps you. After activating the Cheat system using the "Cheat On" in Staff menu, you have to reload mods or save and load the game. Saving is important as the Cheat mode is enabled per map, IIRC.
Jammer Jun 25, 2021 @ 7:42pm 
In fact, it does not seam to work at all!
Jammer Jun 25, 2021 @ 7:40pm 
Huh, when I open a premade prision, I can't find the switch, any help?
Mook90 May 17, 2021 @ 9:37am 
allow me to make it a little simple
1)you will activate the mod from extra in the main menu
2)load you game
3) open staff and put cheat on if you want to active and off if you want to dis active (u can put it any where on the map
4) save the game and reloaded
5) you will find and extra icon next the emergency down in the middle of the screen, named "spawn"
where you can put anything for free,


and i think number 5 is the most problem for everyone as it took me 15 minutes to notice it and a little search on google

thanks for mod
mr.v Jan 2, 2021 @ 11:13am 
Yes, I was open that debugger but don't know what to type in it. Never mind.
qcs2017  [author] Jan 2, 2021 @ 10:10am 
@mr.v

This mod only enables the internal Cheat system.
After that, do whatever the internal Cheat system allows you to do.

Short version is stated as last paragraph in this mod's description.

"The Cheats are enabled as soon as you place the Cheat ON object, and you can use for example the Script Debugger, but the respective UI elements like the (Spawn) Menu only come to see after a reload of the map, for which you either reload mods (press Apply in the Mods menu with or without any changes to enabled mods) or save and reload your prison manually."
mr.v Jan 2, 2021 @ 8:38am 
Any guide how to use after enabled?
Idiot With A Gun Dec 8, 2020 @ 11:20am 
haha comment after more than a year go brrrrrrrrr
spookeei Jul 14, 2019 @ 10:22am 
I used this mod and I was just wondering if it's possible to also make it instant build like if you were to just turn on cheats before you started the prison? When I first used this mod it didn't turn on the instant build, it just turned on the spawn menu and script debugger and such.
Titan Jan 11, 2019 @ 11:05pm 
Oh ok sorry for the miss understanding. I thought that you ment that poeple needed to take care of the words they were saying.
qcs2017  [author] Jan 11, 2019 @ 11:33am 
Titan are you referring to me saying "Gentlemen, watch your language please! :steamfacepalm:"?
If so, please understand that this is an English idion and means something like: People, please take care that what you say is not offensive to anyone", and I had to speak up because of the sandbox controversion before. As a last warning. Before I was going to act if necessary (which it was not, luckily).

If you were referring to something else, please elaborate, because I could not see anyone complain about English or not English.
Titan Jan 11, 2019 @ 10:09am 
oh my god... i just looked trough the comments... and i just want to say that not everyone in the world speaks english. I mean maybe english is one of the main languages in the world but that doesn't mean everyone speaks it... and everyone can use this mod but that doesn't mean that they have to learn english to just type a comment.



sorry if this got you triggered but i just wanted to point it out because i see alot of poeple like this and i just don't like it
astro Jan 5, 2019 @ 10:44pm 
This is exactly what I was looking for to use some of murgh's CombiPack items on a downloaded prison (which are blanked with a "LOCKED (you require developer's tools)", since manually editing the save file by adding "CheatsEnabled true" doesn't work on my Windows box. Unfortunately, this mod doesn't work for me either. *sad face*
BBM_Ping Dec 23, 2018 @ 7:18am 
Sandbox mode is for like if you want to make a prison based on something like scp
groovybluedog Dec 15, 2018 @ 5:31pm 
"might as well just delete the game. sandbox modes like this are for pussies...."

What kind of pussy needs to come here and comment this, when you can just keep scrolling past this mod? Please, delete your existance.
yudex Dec 5, 2018 @ 2:36am 
great mod!
qcs2017  [author] Dec 1, 2018 @ 9:27am 
Definition of bap in English:

bap
noun
British

1 A large, round, flattish bread roll, typically with a spongy texture and floury top.

2 baps vulgar slang A woman's breasts.

Origin

Late 16th century: of unknown origin.

Source: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bap
InvalidM Dec 1, 2018 @ 9:09am 
bap
qcs2017  [author] Nov 29, 2018 @ 10:00am 
Gentlemen, watch your language please! :steamfacepalm:
qcs2017  [author] Nov 28, 2018 @ 12:08am 
@420 This mod is positively a tool to quickly and hopefully painlessly enable the Dev tools (mainly the script debugger and the object (Spawn) menu) which are hidden behind the Cheats setting. This is also stated in the description (above this comments section).

So it is to support those people who make your game richer.
But of course, you are entitled to your opinion :-)
T.N.Tobin Nov 27, 2018 @ 11:03pm 
might as well just delete the game. sandbox modes like this are for pussies....
qcs2017  [author] Nov 27, 2018 @ 9:50pm 
For playing Prison Architect, I don't need Wine. Wine is a Windows compatibility layer for Linux (kind of, but not, and in fact better than, an emulator), making it possible to run (many) Windows programs in Linux. Prison Architect has a native Linux client, which was possibly the cause for the problems other people with Windows clients had. The idea was for me to use the PA Windows client to see if the Mod upload is any different, but my only chance to run the PA Windows client is Wine, and for me, the mod support in PA in Wine is broken. That is probably because of shortcomings of Wine. The Wine developers are working basically without support from Microsoft, it is really impressive what they've done so far, because the game itself runs quite well.

So... that's me turning around in circles... I don't know what's going wrong, we have only one suspicion, and I can not check that suspicion.
murgh Nov 25, 2018 @ 7:28am 
Do you need whine? There is a linux build on the devs website but that's a non steam version. Does steam require it?
qcs2017  [author] Nov 25, 2018 @ 5:22am 
I don't have any Windows available. And PA in Wine is seriously acting weird regarding mods - it doesn't download own mods although subscribed, it doesn't let me enable any mods by other people it has downloaded, and it doesn't recognize the mods I copied from the Linux instance. So that's that.

Thanks for your help though, your shared details about the Mac mods sound indeed like this could also be the case for the Linux client.

I guess I need to register for the Introversion forum to ask the devs what's up...

murgh Nov 25, 2018 @ 4:26am 
Then it must be the way the files are packed by Steam on a Linux client. When grabbing the mod via the workshopdownloader and unpacking the mod with winrar, all files inside are hidden system files and you have to enable Show Hidden Files/Folders and Show Protected System Files before the contents can be seen on a Windows machine. But in that case there is nothing to do about, since it's Steam messing up somehow on Linux. I've seen it packing hidden Apple files as well when somebody releases a mod on a Mac, so the cause must be there and not your fault. Perhaps you can upload the stuff via a Windows machine instead to see how that works out?
qcs2017  [author] Nov 25, 2018 @ 3:24am 
@murgh I don't hide anything? My mods are simple file structures like written in the guides and in my mods directory they look exactly like the mods it downloaded there from the workshop. A directory with the following structure:
<moddir>
\- manifest.txt
\- thumbnail.png
\- data
\- materials.txt
\- scripts
\- CheatOn.lua
\- CheatOff.lua
\- language
\- base-language.txt

There is nothing to hide. I don't want to hide anything. I also wouldn't know how.

Could it be that my Game client does something weird? I am using the Beta client and I am on Linux, if that matters. Just to make sure, I am going to revert to original (non-beta) mode and reupload this mod.
murgh Nov 25, 2018 @ 3:03am 
It might be because you think you need to severely hide the files inside your mod for some weird reason, which may confuse some systems the game is running on. It's not like the modding api is a secret, most if not all of it is documented either here at guides or at IV in the devwiki. Just get rid of that unlogical 'protection to not show the public your awesome code' (which can be made visible again anyway if you know your OS).
qcs2017  [author] Nov 24, 2018 @ 10:00pm 
Ok, can you give me an example of a modded item it corrupts? So I can try myself?

I am currently using the Workshop Storage Racks mod by murgh and my Staff needs Sleep mod, which both add items (the latter even a custom room), and I have no issues.

The mod itself is so simple in those regards that I can't even imagine what could be the issue.
MarshallSantini Nov 24, 2018 @ 9:44pm 
I'm unsure which other mod it is incompatible with. But it causes other modded items to become blank, with a black texture icon.
qcs2017  [author] Nov 24, 2018 @ 12:19pm 
Can you please tell me what to do to see the issue you are seeing, for me to reproduce?
gabriel7380 Nov 24, 2018 @ 11:35am 
Diz is right.
qcs2017  [author] Nov 22, 2018 @ 7:14am 
@Diz what do you mean, it doesn't work with workshop items? I tested it, and it works for me exactly as described with a Workshop prison I have uploaded (my 1000 Prisoners map), and a prison by someone else which I downloaded through the game's "Popular prisons" function (Treasure Island V1.2). Can you give more detail on what's not working for you?
Krunchy Nov 22, 2018 @ 6:09am 
Doesn't work for workshop items that have been preivously uploaded. However, for anything else this works. +1