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gershwyn

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Retractable bridge not working?
« on: August 08, 2009, 02:12:35 pm »
On my first map with lava, I'm building an execution pit. Gobbos get thrown into pit, land on two retractable bridges. Marksdwarves use them for target practice, then pull a lever to drop their stinking corpses down another z-level into a magma pit. It's almost all ready to be flooded... channels are channeled, bridges are built and connected to a lever. But when I tested the lever... nothing. There are a couple rocks that fell down from the channel above on the bridges, but that shouldn't stop them from opening, right?

Or are there any other requirements I'm missing here?
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Elvang

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Re: Retractable bridge not working?
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2009, 02:25:52 pm »
Are you sure both bridges were successfully linked? Use t on each bridge to make sure it has a mechanism in it, the lever should have one mechanism for itself + 1 for each item linked to it (so 3 in this case).
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gershwyn

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Re: Retractable bridge not working?
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2009, 03:33:42 pm »
Hmm, good idea. I always forget you can do that.

Oddly enough, all the mechanisms are in place, and everything worked fine when I gave it another pull. Not sure why it wasn't working earlier... I guess I'll chalk this one up to operator error. (And by that I mean Urist McMechanicallychallenged, not *me* of course.)
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Elvang

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Re: Retractable bridge not working?
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2009, 03:36:43 pm »
Sounds like the lever was set to off before you linked the bridges. So when you pulled the lever, it sent an on signal but the bridges were already extended. Now that the lever was in the on position, the next pull sent the off signal and retracted the bridges.
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DeathOfRats

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Re: Retractable bridge not working?
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2009, 05:22:54 pm »
I'd say it's the other way round. For a bridge, the off position is the extended one. The lever was probably on the on position already.
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Re: Retractable bridge not working?
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2009, 06:09:32 am »
Quote from: DeathOfRats on August 08, 2009, 05:22:54 pm
I'd say it's the other way round. For a bridge, the off position is the extended one. The lever was probably on the on position already.

 Indeed, think of it in terms that the off position for the lever will (unless you are messing with a pressure plate somewhere) always correspond to the state in which the connected object is built. So that's blocking the way for a floodgate, hatch and the like and allowing the way for a bridge.
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