As requested by Owlchemist Ive made an update of this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2898000489
Hope it helps anyone!

Owlchemist to the resue.

wake up samurai

Unsubbed from this one and subbed to Owlchemist's temporary continuation until this one gets updated for 1.4.

For those of you who can't wait, I put up a temp unofficial update in the meantime: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2882734405

is this going to get an update?

bro will you update it to 1.4??

1.4?

Update?

Missing this mod in 1.4, could use again

I know 1.4 hasnt released yet, but will there (in eventuality) be an update to 1.4?

Hey i don't understand why this isnt a prison common can you help me ?https://imgur.com/YSDwkJC

Nevermind, it was an ID10T error

The option to turn a gather spot into a commons area isn't showing up?

It seems to overwrite some functions of Dubs Bad Hygiene, even though it gets loaded before this mod. It isn't possible anymore to assign toilet, shower, fountain and so on to a bed, in the same closed room, once the bed has been changed from one for colonists to one for prisoners.The two assignement buttons just don't show up anymore. Not even after minifying bed and dubs hygiene items and reeinstalling them.

Also, I think the CompPrisonCommons code isn't calling SetPrisonCommons often enough (especially when it's inactive), which might be causing some of the problems below. If you expose your code on GitHub, I could submit a PR.

It doesn't seem to work with auto-doors. Take out the doors, replace them with normal doors, and they wander out of their cells as expected.

Does it work with lock or lock2 mod ?

I really like the idea for this mod. Hopefully you can get it fully working soon?

Greetings, nice mod idea, sadly as other mentions here too, unselecting a commons room doesnt do anything.
Besides that modded doors dont work, only vanilla. Tested it with Doors Expanded ( steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1316188771 )

I'm having issues now as well. I rearranged my prison and now my prisoners can walk freely in and out of my main base, despite there being no prison commons items there.

I'm getting a bug where prison wardens will continually carry a prisoner's food between their cell and the commons area; I couldn't find a solution looking through the comments here, is there one?

Accidentally made my main dining room into a prison commons. Pressed the button to unselect it as such, but it doesnt do anything. All meals stored there are still unable to be grabbed by colonists. It seems like this is becoming a common issue going from the other comments, so some kind of info on it would be helpful. Currently needing to re-do my entire base or drop the mod- because no ammount of messing with the room is fixing it.

@WJSabey I have a possible semi-cheaty solution to this conundrum. You will need a separate stockpile on the ground for your prisoner outfit clothing items, the dev console, and the mod Character Editor.

Make the outfits, then delete them with dev console. Select the prisoner, open their character sheet with Character Editor, click on Inventory. Go into the Apparel tab, and type in their various clothing items. Select material, select level of quality, click OK.

And hey presto! Your prisoners are now wearing their appropriate prisoner uniform. For my future playthrough, that will be a Prisoner Outfit (mod by Chicken Plucker) made out of Minion skin (from the mod by WalkingProblem).

:+1: on the clothing; would really love to have a shared rack of prison-jumpsuits!

One thing I'm not sure is up to you or just how vanilla makes it work, it's a chore making prisoners wear clothing. If the clothing is in a common area they just don't wear it, if it is in their cell they will wear it but only if they are in the cell, if they are in a common area they will just wander around naked. It would be ideal if they would wear clothing in a common area, so we could just have a single clothes store they dress themselves from rather than having to micro clothing into the individual cells.

Can't door count multiplier just be desabled somehow? I like how my prison looks with barred windows and stuff.

dont use this mod its bugged when you allow a room for prisonners ou cannot remove that its litterally mind foc

@Lurmey

Great, simple, and to the point demonstrative picture you've provided for mod functionality. Very awesome of you!

@Lurmey:
That guide is incredibly useful, I'd seen this mod before but reading about the massive escape chance modifier put me off of it. Now I can build a better prison complex.

The mod doesn't work for me. Very sad

Ok so I am having a problem where I clicked a table to have it set up as a prison commons, found out my pawns weren't eating the meals from there anymore. "Reserved for prisoner" something or another." it says, undo the commons area, still says it. I placed a bed in there made it a prison, then changed the bed back into a colonist bed, still says it. If I take the meals out of the room they don't get flagged for the prisoner anymore. My only option would to disable, restart game, then reenable. I made sure nothing was marked as a commons in the room either, room is just stuck like that even though it says it is just a rec room now.

@Lurmey thanks!

@Ben Lubar, as the issue I've resolved below seems to be a common issue people experience, it may be worth putting a brief explanation of how to solve it in the mod description. My comments will eventually be buried so people won't be able to find them easily. I've made an image showing what to do and not to do when making prison commons areas if you'd like to link it: https://imgur.com/a/Is44BA5

So if you're encountering this issue of 3200% break risk due to the number of doors, follow this guide: (looking at you, @Dragoneer and @Stallion)

- Remove all windows from your prison complex and replace with solid walls. Consider using skylights instead.

- Separate prison area and non-prison area by just one door, and don't use double-size doors added by mods like Doors Expanded.

- If you have rooms that need to be connected to the prison by their own route, ensure it only uses a single door in/out of the prison and no windows.

- Monitor the prison break interval of your prisoners while you make changes, it updates instantaneously even while paused.

- Enjoy having prisoners roam around their own little colony. You're welcome.

Okay I did a bunch of testing and worked it out:

- Windows from JPT's Open The Windows or Owlchemist's Windows count as doors for the purposes of prison break interval calculations. I'll collectively call them "weak points".

- Weak points between two rooms that are designated for prisoners, so cells, medbay, or prison commons, don't contribute to the total, so collectively these rooms can be called the "prison area".

- The total is calculated using all weak points between the prison area and any other non-prison room, including outdoors.

- Two or more weak points directly next to each other contribute substantially more to the total than if they were separate. Two adjacent doors is 300%, a 3-tile window is 700%, etc. Separated in the same wall section however, each 1-tile weak point adds 100% to the total.

Is there a mod/can you disable the "Multiplier for door count" factor in prison break interval calculations? I'm having a 3500% multiplier on prison breaks because they can technically access a lot of doors which doesn't make any sense.

The locks mod doesn't seem to help at all.

How can I make an outdoor area that counts as prison commons? I have tried an enclosed area of impassable fences with tables set to prison commons but it doesn't work.

I searched so hard for this s2

great idea! thanks for doing this! just needs little polishing :)

broken

Just noticed that the hugslib log isn't showing the stack trace. Here it is:

Trying to get valid region at (78, 0, 354) but RegionAndRoomUpdater is disabled. The result may be incorrect.
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
Verse.Log:Warning (string)
Verse.RegionGrid:GetValidRegionAt (Verse.IntVec3)
Verse.RegionAndRoomQuery:RegionAt (Verse.IntVec3,Verse.Map,Verse.RegionType)
Verse.RegionAndRoomQuery:DistrictAt (Verse.IntVec3,Verse.Map,Verse.RegionType)
Verse.RegionAndRoomQuery:GetDistrict (Verse.Thing,Verse.RegionType)
Verse.RegionAndRoomQuery:GetRoom (Verse.Thing,Verse.RegionType)
PrisonCommons.PrisonCommons:SetPrisonCommons (RimWorld.CompPrisonCommons,bool)
RimWorld.CompPrisonCommons:PostSpawnSetup (bool)

I've been getting these warnings on game load. It's been happening for awhile now but figured I oughta report it: https://gist.github.com/2f0296379e9bacd7da07596975e4ef61

Trying to get valid region at (78, 0, 354) but RegionAndRoomUpdater is disabled. The result may be incorrect.

The coordinates are the commons rooms.

Prisoners won't take clothing to wear out of deep storage buildings (lockers, shelves) in prison commons area. Would be nice if they could.

There's something funky going on with common areas and doors 'out' of the prison complex. Despite having only one door leading outside I'm getting 400% escape chance. I loved the idea of this mod but I'm going to have to ditch it due to the problems it's causing. A shame.

@Dragoneer that's not this mod fault that happen with vanilla too or any mod that make your prisoner interact with each other

this mod is a great idea, but for some reason the game decided: the more doors a prisoner can reach, the higher the escape attempt multiplier
i have a large prison complex (because reasons) but because of the amount of cells the prison commons are attached to, my prisoners get a 2300% higher escape attempt multiplier, so they try to escape 1-3 times a day

this mod is truly a great idea, but for how i intend to use it, it's a nightmare, and i had to install a mod that disables breakout attempts
love the mod, but because of dumb vanilla mechanics, ill never use it again XD

@Ben Lubar I guess that makes sense. So you're proposing something like door, statue, door with the statue marked prison commons for example? I'm not too worried about the freezer being prison commons, It's a separate freezer for just the prisoners, with only a few shelves, and set as most critical in storage order. That way it always has food, but my colonists should be fine since I produce plenty and the prison freezer only has so much space.
It's a shame simple double doors don't work. I considered something like what you're describing, but it takes up a lot more space and just generally doesn't look as streamlined.

@Cosmic Downpour they need both sides of the door to be a prison commons, but you can make a 3 tile door-commons-door and still gain the benefits of the double wall for insulation (although keep in mind that colonists won't eat the meals in the freezer if you mark the whole thing as a prison commons)

Is it just me or are prisoners unable to cross double doors to access a prison commons area?
I use double walls a lot for thermal efficiency, and they can't seem to cross two doors in a row, right next to each other, when both rooms are prison commons. It sucks because I have a double wall freezer with prisoner meals, but they can't seem to get in their on their own, unless I set one door to stay open and have a colonist go open it; and that kinda defeats the purpose and function of double doors :c