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[soyweiser]

Bridges do not support walls and floors. But they do allow them to be placed, causing the mason to crash down after the floor is build (with the finished floor).

for example this causes a cavein:
...+..
======
This doesn't.
|+....
=====

The masons shouldn't build the walls next to a bridge if no other square supports it.

====
. = air
= = bridge
+ = floor
| = wall
Sorry if it already has been posted, but I couldn't find it.

[schm0]

I don't understand your diagram at all.

[BDR]

Let me try it...

code:

This causes a cave-in.
...+..
======

This doesn't.
|+....
======

*wonders why the button which is right underneath the typing area doesn't get used more often*

[ November 09, 2007: Message edited by: BDR ]

[soyweiser]

(thanks bdr)

code:

This causes a cave-in.
|......|
|...+..|
|======|
|......|

This doesn't.
|......|
|+.....|
|======|
|......|

Hope this clarifies it? a floor build supported by only the brige over a open space crashed down when it is finished.

[Stromko]

Worst part is how the builder is somehow dragged down when the wall next to them collapses. I lost about six dwarves when I tried to build a 'skyway' over a lava pit so my dwarves could pass over a canyon without getting scared back by imps and being cut off from my lumber supply. Lots of falling down and burning up.  

I can kind of imagine this dwarf lining up these bricks on the edge of a bridge, it starts to topple over and he tries to pull it back into place, only to be pulled down with it to a firey death. You'd think after seeing three of his buddies meet that end he'd just.. let it go!  

[ November 09, 2007: Message edited by: Stromko ]

[SynthOrange]

This appears to also happen with grates. In the fort where I discovered this, it led to many construction crew fatalities as they were blown into the fort's resevoir.

[Shadowlord]

The only thing bridges support is other bridges, as far as I could tell.

[Metal Chao]

Well that makes sense, seeing as bridges can retract/drawbridge.
Working as intended, I think.
Although you shouldn't be able to build the floors at all.

[Sean Mirrsen]

No, everything is as it should be. Things should be buildable from bridges, but not be supported by them.

Once area-rewalling is in (I dunno, maybe combine it with "build road"?), "normal" bridges will be built with refloors, and current bridges will be called drawbridges, as they should.

On second thought, it could be an elaborate trap mechanism instead, so the bridge will support the constructions, maybe even buildings, but they will all fall (possibly destroying the bridge, but only possibly) when the bridge retracts.