This post will be used to answer common questions regarding use of The Escapists Prison Editor. Will keep updating it as issues arise.

If you have NPCs that dance, spin or are stuck, it usually means their route to the next waypoint is blocked.

Make sure you have no walls underneath doors or other objects or obstacle tiles in the way. You can hold the Q key in the editor to hide objects and see what's going on.

Make sure you haven't placed a wall tile underneath it. You can hold the Q key to hide objects in the editor and see what's going on.

Follow these steps if this applies to you;

1) Go to your Escapists folder in documents (usually Documents/$name/The Escapists or something similar). If there's no folder in here called 'Custom Maps', create it.

2) Unsubscribe from the map and subscribe again.

3) In your Steam Library, right click on The Escapists and click PROPERTIES. Go to LOCAL FILES and hit VERIFY INTEGRITY. This will force download any maps to your steam ugc folder.

4) Try loading the game again. On the map screen, it will pull any found .pmaps from your Steam ugc folder and put them into your Custom Maps folder and show in game. Note that some users have been uploading .proj files instead, which wont work.

If your map crashes then it may be because of too many obstacle tiles. Usually occurs on maps where the majority of the tiles are water. Adding some changes for next build to avoid this issue.

Hold Q in editor to check the tiles under the bed or door you're walking through. If it's a ground tile (grass/snow etc) then the game will think you're outside and shoot you.

If it doesn't say the percentage of a wall or floor when you're trying to break through it on a custom prison, it often means you've loaded a save file on a prison that's been modified. When you save your game, it saves an array of the 'health' of walls/floors etc. If you then change your prison layout, that array won't work properly.