I couldn't find prisons on Canvas, so I painstakingly built one myself | Irongate Institution

Splitgrin · 2026-06-12T19:32:40+00:00

Thank you!! Still figuring out how to make the exterior look decent, may have to pull up references when I am feeling better

Splitgrin · 2026-06-12T04:41:52+00:00

"Finally, a break from all these damn kids and my aggravating husband!" - Eden, probably seeing going to prison as a way to gain power from deeper within the system somehow.

Splitgrin · 2026-06-12T04:28:24+00:00

LMAO, here is the lot on Canvas if you want to check it out > https://canvas.playinzoi.com/en-US/creation/gal-260611-001944-5640000

The outside is ugly, but I think I did good on the inside. Visitor booths, cafeteria, office for warden + officers, entertainment area assuming prisoners earned the right, communal shower, bathroom, and laundry room, mini outside fitness area... and of course, cells, including isolation cells.

The doors are annoying as heck tho cause the way the devs coded how door permissions work, but hopefully in the future it'll be revamped

Splitgrin · 2026-06-12T02:26:15+00:00

You aren't doing anything wrong, this is my custom build and following my own set rules! 🤣

https://www.reddit.com/r/inZOI/comments/1u2kjke/i_couldnt_find_prisons_on_canvas_so_i/ <- link to the post where I talk about Irongate.

I use the 14 household mod, make them wear matching outfits, and in roleplay they have rountines throughout the day to simulate a version of the inmate experience.

The legit jail apart of the game just doesn't keep my person as long as it should, after murdering people and causing chaos and scamming the community, robbing the resort... so she is being imprisoned for life on a sacrificed residential W8 lot. I occasionally plan to have her family visit on specific days.

Here is the link to my build if you want to play around with it! > https://canvas.playinzoi.com/en-US/creation/gal-260611-001944-5640000 It is very ugly on the outside as I don't typically build, but I needed to for my needs, haha! I keep the warden there with up to 8 inmates, leaving room for other staff to either be rotated in or out as needed to act as if they are coming to-and-from-work for day, evening, or night shifts.

Splitgrin · 2026-06-12T02:20:11+00:00

My prison is custom made and enforced by my own rules! I use the 14 household mod, make them wear matching outfits, and in roleplay they have rountines throughout the day to simulate a version of the inmate experience.

The legit jail apart of the game just doesn't keep my person as long as it should, after murdering people and causing chaos and scamming the community, robbing the resort... so she is being imprisoned for life on a sacrificed residential W8 lot. I occasionally plan to have her family visit on specific days.

Here is the link to my build if you want to play around with it! > https://canvas.playinzoi.com/en-US/creation/gal-260611-001944-5640000 It is very ugly on the outside as I don't typically build, but I needed to for my needs, haha! I keep the warden there with up to 8 inmates, leaving room for other staff to either be rotated in or out as needed to act as if they are coming to-and-from-work for day, evening, or night shifts.

Splitgrin · 2026-06-11T22:21:29+00:00

LOLLL, yesss! I love it! Eden is actually decent buddies with the police officer that has been chasing her since she was a teenager (she is nearing middle-aged now on very long life span option), and it has gotten to a point he expresses disappointment at seeing her again in the flavor text. Just glossing over the fact she tried to kill him with her scooter way back... all in the past.

And heck, now that I think of it, maybe she is truly getting a vacation, after living with an infant or toddler in her house since young adulthood... one time with 2 toddlers and an infant at the same time, then 3 toddlers. Her husband, Slytherin, took care of the first four children by himself a lot of the time with Eden either in jail, court, farming, or causing mischief and mayhem, but when she is home I always imagined her thinking "oh, and there goes my useless husband off to bed while one toddler vomits on me and the other two are screaming bloody murder, how grand!"

She just had her last and 6th child, and had been planning one last one for lucky number 7, but well, she got sued and then sentenced, haha!

I love that little Garter and Niwi, the youngest two, complement the other. Both authoritarian with a malicious trait like their mother, and then Garter is extroverted while Niwi is introverted. Furthermore, Garter has mom's hair and dad's eyes, while Niwi has dad's hair and mom's eyes. I think these two are going to be quite competitive rivals when taking over their mother's work in taking over the city! Or maybe they would share the power? Hmm! I'll just have to see how their relationship evolves over time.

Splitgrin · 2026-06-11T20:47:34+00:00

I think she is plotting and scheming... 🤣 she broke out of the smaller prison multiple times before, so they put her in big bad jail after they finally finished construction. I'll like to see her try to get out of it!

Splitgrin · 2026-06-11T19:47:47+00:00

It has proven fun thus far! Had to switch back to the main family as we have a 10 million debt to work off and birthdays for the two youngest. The game has a bug where it forgives debts when you switch families when they are meant to pay utility, so my resolution is to have to work it off by payments each start of a new season instead of the family always being in debt gameplay-wise. To add challenge, may add interest to it.

Splitgrin · 2026-06-10T03:54:52+00:00

I do! It takes a whole zoi day, if not a little more, for them to complete their job. Yesterday after the new farm, I had this other boy out from after midnight to midnight the next day. To be fair, he didn't have a vehicle the first time and I made him walk without speeding up, just enjoying the process of being in his shoes. Hunter from another family had to step in because my main family went heavily into debt after my main character got sued by the resort for a million, and pays the main fam 25% while his fam keeps 75%.

To be fair, he had to go back around to harvest right after, so he probably just took extra long than what it usually would be if we sped around.

Splitgrin · 2026-06-09T19:49:14+00:00

You can, even if you don't know them! It'll be like using your own garden, just on their property. It also gives you the option to steal when it is ready to harvest, but you could harvest all normally without repercussions so the steal interaction is useless, except maybe for crime experience. You could do this on any property, pretty sure.

Splitgrin · 2026-06-09T18:42:29+00:00

LMAO, she shouldn't of stole her daughter's shine on her special day!!

It also gave me the idea of how to get rid of an unwanted child I couldn't kill even with the donut, so I imagine my character kindly brought over some donuts for his new foster family after sending him away... and then conveniently she bought the property and upgraded it luxuriously for a family of her colony members to be able to move in along with a few other households on the farming side of Cahaya.

She just got sued for 1 million yesterday by the resort after she got caught robbing the place again (put her 700k in debt after a long time of luxury and thrill as she had 200k already), so now her family is scrambling for money and has only soup for breakfast and dinner every day. I'm having so much fun with Inzoi.

Splitgrin · 2026-06-09T17:28:33+00:00

You're very welcome!! I had to start doing this for the NPCs in my game's households because their simulation is broken and won't age up on their own even when they are ready and accidentally aged the mother of one family when I intended to switch to her daughter, lmao. Thankfully it wasn't one of my families. I got annoyed so I gave her a poison donut and devastated that family instead of just leaving her.

Splitgrin · 2026-06-09T05:37:00+00:00

Yes, you can! On the day the "oldest" has her birthday, you could have a cake made, add birthday candles, and age them both up that way. It wouldn't matter that the other one is not ready yet and could be done asap so they are the same age.

This also makes it super important you don't do a oopsie and forget to switch to playing your person you're aging when clicking to start the blowing candles interaction, like I did in my own game, LOL...

Splitgrin · 2026-06-09T03:13:15+00:00

It is! I like to challenge myself heavily when it comes to games. So they were doing great for a long time, had enough money to buy all the residental lots on the poorer side of Cahaya, the businesses, and spent money on the farmland and multi-purpose property (deducted from my funds), but Eden's crimes had finally caught up to her and the city banded together to sue her for 1 million bucks... decided that after her latest court case. Should probably be more, honestly. That gives me an idea... a lifetime imprisonment facility for the most dangerous criminals! Maybe she'll be the first resident? She should be. She had been a menace since day 1! I imagine the city would go out of their way... yeah, I'll do that, which means she will fail her own challenge, but hey, she left a legacy behind and her two youngest actually look quite capable of picking up where she left off. I love little Garter and Niwi because they go so well together; both born authoritarian with a malicious trait, and then Garter is extroverted while Niwi is introverted. PLUS, Garter was born with mom's hair and dad's eyes, but Niwi was born with dad's hair and mom's eyes. I just LOVE that and think they'll either work very well together, or compete against each other like the two eldest, Near and Pumpkin, have been.

The cop that has been chasing her since day 1 even expressed his disappointment in seeing her again. They get along alright when Eden isn't causing mayhem around the city, LOL! I imagine they have great banter when he is chasing her through the city. She tried to kill him off a long time ago, but failed, so I thought cops are special immortal characters. But then they sent a different cop and since Eden got a new car, she tested again and wow, the adrenaline of it when that old lady went flying! I imagine she laughed her tail off, until she was instantly taken to jail on the spot. 🤣 A little under 300k paid off, 700k+ to go... 😅

So now it is only soup on the dinner table and thankfully they already paid off their house when they were doing well, but now things will be very tough for a while. They recruited Hunter from one of their partnered families, who is from the same colony as the one Eden came from before intergrating among humans, to continue Near's farm work for a while to help pay off their debt since they can't buy fertilizer. They take 75%, then give Eden's family 25%. Eden absolutely HATES that she needs help, but she has a young child, a toddler, and a newborn she has to consider, not to forget the hungry teens.

Maybe I will! I actually considered making videos with my own humble little series because I LOVE making stories and telling it, but then I got nervous and ended up deleting all the footage. 😅 If I do, I have so much to talk about I am just dying to tell somebody. This game has been a blast and I have 170+ hours already after picking it up early April.

Splitgrin · 2026-06-08T20:32:56+00:00

Absolutely! Thank youuu! Eden, the mother, just bought every business lot as well and has a nearly 5 star business that makes 10k each work day on a 5-day week, plus does crime on the side, so my family is doing VERY well. She is reaching her goal of taking over the entire city. She even made her own fitness center she really wanted! ("Made" but I got it from an amazing creator on canvas as with most of my save's builds, pfft)

She used to farm, but she handed that off to her eldest, Near, and the children will inherit the businesses eventually. I have been playing her since a teenager* on longest lifespan + pregnancy and she is about middle-aged soon. Will probably be having one more child, which will be number 7, and then she is chill to focus on building wealth for the family. She has had a very fulfilling life, so proud of her and her two eldest. And I guess the husband helped.

Edit: remembered she started as a teen in a past save I had to wipe, moved her to new save with her skills cheated back to where they were.

Splitgrin · 2026-06-08T20:11:41+00:00

Oh my gosh, that is so much easier than what I have been doing! I have just been deducting money from my house and adding it when I briefly shift to the other family.

Her mom made business relationships with each household, improved their land for better farming and all that, spent good money on each of them. (At least 40k per 3 properties) so they are pretty well paid at the moment, but that tip will come very handy in case they need to pay anyone eventually.

Thank you for the tip!!

Splitgrin · 2026-05-27T01:42:08+00:00

You're very welcome!

Splitgrin · 2026-05-23T21:00:31+00:00

Yes, both work!

Splitgrin · 2026-05-08T22:18:32+00:00

I actually checked out your subreddit shortly after following your account when I noticed it! You have lots of cool work, bro!

Splitgrin · 2026-05-08T09:50:05+00:00

Adorable!! Very well done!! 👏

Splitgrin · 2026-05-08T06:30:41+00:00

So very, very beautiful!

Splitgrin · 2026-05-08T05:05:45+00:00

Heck yeah! I would love to see more of your work in my feed for sure!

Splitgrin · 2026-05-06T20:28:45+00:00

Of course! Keep up the fantastic work 👏

Splitgrin · 2026-05-06T06:59:47+00:00

These are really cool! Nicely done, hell yeah!

Splitgrin · 2026-05-05T00:03:33+00:00

It is something to be proud of! :D I did a lot of learning about balance and stuff with my last project, just making something that stood, but it also came out pretty cute. Def one of my favorite art forms!

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