Rooms Prison Architect Guide

Last update: 25 May 2016

In order for the prison to function properly, you have to appoint special zones, rather conventionally called rooms (they don't have to be divided with a wall). Each one of them plays a certain role and is useful in one way or another. The rooms tab can be found in the lower part of the menu (screen above).

In Prison Architect, the way given rooms are used isn't decided by the type of equipment, but the name. Because of that, if you mark a room full of showers as a Yard, prisoners will come there to run and not wash themselves. You need to remember that, as changing the purpose of rooms is very useful (especially if you're dealing with overpopulation and have to establish a Holding Cell). You can create or change types of zones by pressing on a chosen icon in the rooms menu on the left and choosing a desired type of area (screen above).

 

The further part of the guide contains a description of all rooms and their use, together with optimum size hints. Of course you should treat them only as advices - by far the most fun in the game comes from building your own prison. The guide only contains optimum combinations and parametres.