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Cosmonot

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Bridge construction, cannot find path
« on: October 07, 2006, 01:27:00 pm »
My mason keeps spamming me with pathing errors when I try and build a bridge over the cave river. I know bridges have been a problem in the past, and since it was my first bridge I didn't choose any inaccessible stones. My mason hauled all the rock to the construction site, then started spamming until I suspend the job. I have a save if you want it.
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Toady One

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Re: Bridge construction, cannot find path
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2006, 03:18:00 pm »
Did the bridge connect to an open square on the other side of the river, rather than a wall?  I think sometimes they get confused about that.
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Re: Bridge construction, cannot find path
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2006, 03:54:00 pm »
I've got the same issue.  And yes, I've got it on the shore on the other side because I wanted a bridge wider than where it intersected a wall (i.e. 4 wide).  I'll try redoing it *again* one tile shorter so it isn't on the shore.

Didn't help.  :(
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Cosmonot

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Re: Bridge construction, cannot find path
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2006, 04:11:00 pm »
Yes, my bridge overlapped the far shore. After I posted I ended up starting a new game and built my bridge properly. I'll keep the trick in mind.
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Toady One

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Re: Bridge construction, cannot find path
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2006, 09:49:00 pm »
Yeah, I don't mean that overlapping the shore is the problem -- there can't be any open space near the bridge at all on the other side, or the dwarves get dumb about it.
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Draco18s

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Re: Bridge construction, cannot find path
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2006, 11:38:00 pm »
I didn't have the problem my first fort or two (I frequently built a narrow bridge to clear out the other shore before building a wider bridge), but now it's ALWAYS happening.  Oh well.
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MikeWulf

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Re: Bridge construction, cannot find path
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2006, 12:16:00 am »
This is when they can't access the materials specified by yourself. This can be a bugger of a problem because all my inaccessible rocks are generally the first on the list.
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Draco18s

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Re: Bridge construction, cannot find path
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2006, 12:40:00 am »
That could be it.  Though it wasn't this last time it bugged out on me.  Was building a brige in a down-stream section of river towards an opposite empty and unwalked upon section of bank.  Ended up having to dig to it from existing routes.  Not a big deal, just annoying.
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