How do you feed a hopper in a prisoner area, for example for a nutrient paste dispenser? When I try to direct a colonist to feed one, I see the error "Cannot feed hopper: reserved for prisoners."
How to feed hopper when owned by prisoners
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In order to feed your prisoners, you have to have a colonist assigned to the Warden task.
Once you have someone tasked with being a Warden, they will automatically take care of the prisoner; whether they're feeding them, or executing them.
Here is a trick for moving prisoners to specific beds.
- Mark all non-occupied prisoner beds for colonists, except the one you want to move them into.
- Mark the prisoner's current bed as for colonists.
- A warden should come move the prisoner to their new bed shortly.
- For a room with more than one prisoner, manually order a warden to take the prisoner to bed. Then you can turn the room back into a prison cell for the remaining prisoner(s).
- A constructor can move the prisoner's bed, and then a warden will come to move them.
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Best Answer
Hoppers are used by Nutrient Paste Dispensers to provide food for turning into paste. The hopper needs to be next to the dispenser to feed it, but hoppers can't be in prisoner areas because colonists won't fill them.
But... dispensers are pretty big, so you can construct one into the wall of your prison, such that the front is accessible by prisoners, and the rear is in a non-prisoner area, into which you can put your hoppers. Colonists will happily fill those hoppers as they're not part of a prison.
Below image taken from this answer to a similar question (which is a good read if you're looking at mass prisoner feeding solutions.)