Locked up

[Dancing_Burritos]

Hey, whats up guys. I Just bought the game about an hour ago, and I really like the game, however, I am having some trouble. When I'm trying to build a prison, halfway through when the first prisoners arrive, everything locks up and the workers can't build and the prisoners can't get through the entrance, the just kinda stand there and twitch around. This has happened twice and I cant figure out what I'm doing wrong, any help?

[christopher1006]

The reason they can't get through normal gates is due to a recent update. Only guards can open jail cell doors but anyone can walk through a normal wooden door and there is a staff door which simply blocks prisoners from using it but is much weaker than normal jail cell doors.

[Dancing_Burritos]

Oh dude, I didn't even notice there were normal doors, thanks man.

[Synthetic Systems]

you can also right click the doors to open them manually

[BugPowderDust]

I'm new to this too, but I noticed that if you schedule free time on the regime section, all the jail doors pop open automatically. Similarly, when it's sleepy time, all the prisoners (should) return to their cells,and the door autolock again. Saves a lot of micro

[HerrJoebob]

I'm new to this too, but I noticed that if you schedule free time on the regime section, all the jail doors pop open automatically. Similarly, when it's sleepy time, all the prisoners (should) return to their cells,and the door autolock again. Saves a lot of micro

Once you research deployment you can also set zones to "unlocked" to allow your workers in to (say) finish building a cell block. Very handy.