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[OrionKale]

I recently decided to try out .16, and just set up an atom smasher. One tile, blocked by a lock door.

I'm unsure why this isn't working, did atom smashing get fixed in this new build ?

[darkflagrance]

Need more info on your set-up. There are too many things you might be doing wrong; they should work.

[OrionKale]

Okay, the 'should work' is what I needed to know.

Right now, I have a 1 tile long hallway leading to a drawbride like so:  WWWW
                                                                                             WOD__
                                                                                              WWWW
W = Wall
O = Drawbridge
D = Door (Locked)

I have a lever hooked up to the bridge, and have it set to pull on repeat.

Items were placed on a dump zone while the bridge was in the up position, then the door was locked.

Thanks for your help. <3

[Sphalerite]

Are you sure you made a raising bridge and not a retracting bridge?  Only raising bridges atomsmash things.  Also, with a single-tile bridge, you want to dump items on it when the bridge is in the lowered position.

[OrionKale]

Thank you, it was set to retracting.

[Tsarwash]

I thought that bridges needed to be 2x1 to work as atom smashers.

[greycat]

I've never made a 1x1 bridge at all.  I can't see how that should work.  Where would you put the stuff when it's in the raised-and-acting-like-a-wall position?  How would the lowered bridge differ from the raise bridge -- would it simply act as a road instead of a wall?  Where would the smashing part take place?

I've successfully used 2x1 bridges for atom-smashing.  It works fine.

[Sphalerite]

A 1X1 raising bridge basically acts like a floor when lowered, and a wall when raised.  To crush stuff you drop it on the bridge when lowered, then raise it.  Raising drawbridges smash anything on the tiles that turn into a wall when they raise.

[nordak]

I'm starting to wonder why I build flood gates when an atom smashing door would be so much more fun...

[darkflagrance]

A 1X1 raising bridge basically acts like a floor when lowered, and a wall when raised.  To crush stuff you drop it on the bridge when lowered, then raise it.  Raising drawbridges smash anything on the tiles that turn into a wall when they raise.

The problem with 1x1 raising bridges is that you can never tell if they are raised or lowered except indirectly, through interactions with items and pathfinding.

[FleshForge]

I'm starting to wonder why I build flood gates when an atom smashing door would be so much more fun...

There is no purpose served by a floodgate that a drawbridge doesn't do just as well, and it's indestructible when raised.

[JarinArenos]

I'm fairly certain that [BUILDING_DESTROYER] can still break a raised drawbridge wall. Only -[C] constructions are safe from that.

[Sphalerite]

I'm fairly certain that [BUILDING_DESTROYER] can still break a raised drawbridge wall. Only -[C] constructions are safe from that.

I have used raised single-tile drawbridges to hold building destroyers at bay in many fortresses.  They seem to be safe to me.

[tagg]

I'm fairly certain that [BUILDING_DESTROYER] can still break a raised drawbridge wall. Only -[C] constructions are safe from that.

I have used raised single-tile drawbridges to hold building destroyers at bay in many fortresses.  They seem to be safe to me.

I'm fairly certain that a raised bridge is invulnerable, but the mechanisms "inside" of it can be damaged/destroyed.

[bcd1024]

Raised drawbridges function exactly as walls do. They cannot be destroyed. I've never heard of the mechanism being damaged, even with magma I've never had a problem.