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[moondowner]

I think I've never built one-tile-long bridges before, and now... do they really look the same when raised/lowered? And how, if I don't remember... man, I feel stupid. I'm playing vanilla DF (no tileset). I can figure it out by looking at levers, but it's really inefficient.

[WhimsyWink]

I had the same problem.  There are ways to tell but it was simpler for me to just make them at least 2 long.  I have not had any problems with a long raising bridge on a single level

[jcochran]

Yes, a 1 tile long or wide bridge (that rises in the direction of the 1 tile width or length) looks the same whether it's up or down. And I too, tend to make my bridges at least 2 tiles long in the rising direction just so I can tell at a glance if they're up or down. But you can tell if they're up or down by attempting to build something on the spot they occupy. If they're down, you'll get a 'building occupies' error and if they're up, you'll get a 'blocked' error.

[Sutremaine]

Tilesets won't help anyway. You can't choose one tile for a raised 1x1 bridge and a different one for a lowered 1x1 bridge.

If you don't have the room for a larger and more visually readable bridge, build one somewhere nearby and link it to the same lever as the small bridge. It'll do nothing but act as an indicator.

[Garath]

If you have more bridges, check how the lever looks on them. Levers don't send a switch signal, but an on/off, so levers pulled to close a bridge always stand the same way and levers used to open one lean in the other direction

[Quietust]

If you have room, you can place a nearby retracting bridge or a door/hatch and link it to the same lever - I used this trick back in my second 0.31 fortress so I could check whether or not the Ultimate Lava Trap was open.