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[Rowanas]

I "accidentally" let an elven caravan get wasted by goblins. So, as any dwarf does, I made the best of the situation by taking the good and dumping the bad underneath my 1x1 land bridge for atomsmashing. I get a dwarf to pull the lever and instead of ending up bridge 17, Elven goods 0, I have crappy elven wares spread across the landscape, with some of it still underneath the bridge. What did I do wrong?

[greycat]

Make sure the bridge is in the Raised position before you dump the stuff.  If you dump it onto the Lowered bridge, then the act of raising it will make a primitive catapult.

[Rowanas]

Hmm. I was quite certain, because I made the bridge lowered at first, then raised it by lever, put the stuff under it, and brought it down again.

[Sphalerite]

First, make sure you built a raising bridge, not a retracting bridge.  Retracting bridges don't atomsmash, they just fling stuff around.

Second, when a raising bridge raises, the edge on the side which the bridge raises in the direction of becomes a wall.  Anything on this edge when the bridge raises will be crushed, while anything on the rest of the bridge will be flung around.  Trying to dump anything on top of a raised 1X1 bridge will fail as the bridge will be entirely 'edge' and act as a blocking wall, and the dumped items will just rest on top of it.  If it's truly a raising bridge you'll want to drop the items on the bridge in the lowered position, then raise it to crush them.

[Lormax]

This is exactly why my atomsmashing bridge is not 1x1

[Rowanas]

Ahhh. Such a simple error. Thank you guys. I'm glad I still have more to learn.