Prison Architect: Nintendo Switch Edition – Going Green patch notes

Alongside the new Going Green DLC for Prison Architect that came out last week, a new update went out for the game. Paradox Interactive recently offered more insight as to what’s included.

Below are the full patch notes:

Feature Overview

Farming​

• Growable produce including: potatoes, wheat, apples
  • New export and usable as ingredients for inmate meals
• New outdoor rooms: Fruit Orchard, Farming Field, Vegetable Allotment
• Plant growth life cycle, irrigation, and composting
• New Shed Object – which will store farming related items such as seeds
  • Also required for basic irrigation
• New Prison Labour type
• New staff member: Farm Worker
• New room: Pantry
  • Allows you to use your own produce in your prison kitchen
• Automatic Farming Items:
  • Auto Scythe
  • Auto Harvester
  • Auto Gatherer (basic and advanced)
• New reputations:
  • Green Thumb
  • Foodie
• 4 new grants
• 4 new policies

Contraband​

• Narcotic Production
  • Fields can be utilised by prisoners to secretly grow contraband herbs
  • Fields becoming potential Gang Turf
  • Herbs can be gathered and become Drug contraband
• Booze Production
  • Kitchen ingredients and prison grown fruit etc. can be gathered by inmates and fermented/brewed
  • After several stages, Alcohol contraband is produced
• New reputations:
  • Dealer
  • Supplier

Green Energy​

• New Green Power Sources
  • Solar, Wind, and the Solar/Wind Hybrid
  • New electrical items: Transformer and Batteries
• Selling electricity
  • New Power Export Meter object – which allows returning power to ‘the grid’, in exchange for profits
• New Educational Program
• New Green Power Grants
• Energy targets

Recreational Gardening​

• Includes a new room, a recreational/training program for inmates, and 5 new plant items: Rose Bush, SunFlower, Mixed Begonias, Heather bushes, and Hydrangea plants.
• Inmates will be able to tend plants within the new Flower Garden room
• Flowers improve the prison’s aesthetics and help calm prisoners tending to them.

Item Overview

New walls

• Bottle Wall
• White Picket Fence
• Reclaimed Wood Wall
• Hay Bale Wall
• Wooden Fence
• Garden Walls
• Barn Door
• White Picket Gate
• Double Door/Staff Door/Visitor Door

New objects

• Garden gnome
• Light (Solar)
• Topiary Bush
• Pink Flamingo
• Hay Bale
• Serving Table (small)
• Tray Dispenser
• Food Tray Pack(s)
• Wall Light (Solar)
• Topiary Bush (Ball)
• Topiary Bush (Warden)
• Topiary Bush (Swan)
• Topiary Bush (Deer)
• Topiary Bush (Dog)
• Topiary Bush (Cat)
• Topiary Bush (Rex)
• Wall Planter
• Flower Planter (watering can)
• Flower Planter (wellies)
• Flower Planter (wheelbarrow)

New flooring types

• Reclaimed Brick
• Field Grass
• Reclaimed Rubber

New Quick Room

• Flower Garden

New premade maps

• The Work Fields
• Green Power Plant

New wardens

• The Botanist
• The Ecologist

The Glasshouse – Free Update

All Platforms​

• New Recycling System
  • Includes new Recycling Bin object
• New Quick Rooms
  • Yard, Grove, and hedge maze
• 2 New dog types
  • Shepherd
  • Bowtie Bandit
• Community improvement: dump/demolish
• Community improvement: Objects Menu Sorting Methods

Consoles only​

• Weather system
• 1 flooring type – flowery field
• Addition of the dog selection and all the previous dog skins

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Console:​

• The prisoner intake does not match the actual intake.

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