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lemonpieman

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Can't build bridge?
« on: April 25, 2009, 08:36:30 pm »

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Re: Can't build bridge?
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2009, 08:55:00 pm »

Just chill. Too impatient.  Just relax... They'll do it eventually.  Go get a beer or something.
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Re: Can't build bridge?
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2009, 09:05:25 pm »

Just chill. Too impatient.  Just relax... They'll do it eventually.  Go get a beer or something.

But... I have tons of idle people who some of which I've even given architect and masonry the other skills that have relatively anything to do with making bridges, yet they haven't done it yet, and nobody on the unit list is on their way to doing it either.
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Re: Can't build bridge?
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2009, 09:08:27 pm »

I can't help you.  Check the job cancellations, check the path, check everything.  See if you accidentally your entire staircase.
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Re: Can't build bridge?
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2009, 09:09:10 pm »

See if you accidentally your entire staircase.
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Re: Can't build bridge?
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2009, 09:11:07 pm »

they need to have access to the side with the materials so it can be kind of tricky to build bridges sometimes, make sure they can reach both sites with a passage which you can rewall later.
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Re: Can't build bridge?
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2009, 09:28:34 pm »

they need to have access to the side with the materials so it can be kind of tricky to build bridges sometimes, make sure they can reach both sites with a passage which you can rewall later.

I'll see if this works, thanks.

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Re: Can't build bridge?
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2009, 09:30:35 pm »

See if you accidentally your entire staircase.
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Re: Can't build bridge?
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2009, 09:44:41 pm »

they need to have access to the side with the materials so it can be kind of tricky to build bridges sometimes, make sure they can reach both sites with a passage which you can rewall later.

I'll see if this works, thanks.
yeah, it 'pre picks' the individual stones (or whatever) that will be used to make a construction when you first set it up to be built, and it makes sure that there's a path between those materials and the construction site, but it doesn't bother to check if dwarves can reach those materials. it's probably chosen some stone on the unreachable side of the bridge.
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i'll just intervene here, this is a silly joke, based around the format "I accidentally (no verb where there should be a verb) the entire ____" designed to deliberately confuse.

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Re: Can't build bridge?
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2009, 09:56:36 pm »

In my limited experience, as zchris13  said, it often takes a long time for architect jobs to get done, particularly if they aren't right in the middle of fortress. (Until of course a caravan turns up, then my idiot architect/trader can't get to work on that bridge fast enough..)
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Re: Can't build bridge?
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2009, 10:09:49 pm »

I meant destroyed.  Make sure your dwarves have a path.
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Re: Can't build bridge?
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2009, 10:29:59 pm »

they need to have access to the side with the materials so it can be kind of tricky to build bridges sometimes, make sure they can reach both sites with a passage which you can rewall later.

That did it, thank you.
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Re: Can't build bridge?
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2009, 04:34:31 am »

no problem, seen it many times and its damn annoying.
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