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[GPeter]

So I'm playing a fort on an evil region, so I built a bridge gate, the bridge will raise to the right sealing off my fort, my question is, when I raise it, I did notice that my dwarves couldn't get out anymore, but the visuals of the bridge changed nothing, does a raised and a downed bridge indeed looks the same? Or did I encounter a bug?

[Kametec_Housen]

Is it a 1x1 bridge? I'm sure bridges look different when in lowered or raised state. But I don't think I've ever made a 1x1 raising bridge, so that is the only situation I'm not sure about. But I'd suppose they look different too.

[GPeter]

It's a 3x1 bridge, It just wont change appeareance between lowered and raised, I know it's raised because my dwarves can't get out of the fort anymore.

[GPeter]

Actually nevermind, as it seems that problem happens with bridges of any size, as long as it is x1, It could be 999x1, and I would have that problem, I just deconstructed it, and made it 3x2, problem solved!

[Kametec_Housen]

Ah, damn, I didn't make 1 tile wide bridges either. But I just checked and they seem to look same indeed.

[Leonidas]

Two workarounds:

1. Build a retractable bridge linked to the same lever as the 1x3 drawbridge that you care about. The state of the retractable bridge will tell you the state of the drawbridge.

2. Use a tileset that makes lever states more obvious and easier to remember. Meph's set uses red for default state and green for altered state. And DFHack's Ctrl-M command will remind you which lever is connected to which bridge.

[Bumber]

Use a tileset that makes lever states more obvious and easier to remember.

This doesn't necessarily indicate the state of the bridge if it was pulled twice in quick succession.

[Saiko Kila]

I'm so used to a method to detect the state of the bridge, that I don't mind using 1x1 brides, unless in some very critical spots, like atom smasher (I use 1x2 bridges or 2x1 for that, depending on directions, to see the state at a glance).

The method is to press "b-o" (building Paved Road) and point to the bridge. If it says "Building present", the bridge is down and passable. If it says "Blocked", the bridge is up and unpassable. I even use a mnemonic to remember that, so I don't have to read actual words. "Building present" is two words, hence long, like two tiles of normal, deployed 2x1 bridge. "Blocked" is one word, or short, like one tile of raised bridge (also the passage is "blocked", duh).

The bigger bridges are still better for most occasions, but sometimes there's just not enough place and the narrow bridges are needed, especially in trap design.

[Leonidas]

This is such a common problem, it's strange that DFHack doesn't have a feature to report the bridge's state on the q menu.