Prison Architect: Nintendo Switch Edition – Going Green patch notes
Posted on February 7, 2021 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch eShop
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.
