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[Nil Eyeglazed]

So I've been playing with some nasty critters.  Trying to use bridges and bait to herd them where I want.

I keep running into a problem.  My bridges disintegrate when the critters move over them.  First it was a rock bridge, then an iron bridge.

Temperature's off, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were some shortcuts for when temp's off.  One variety of these nasty critters has a fixed temp of 25000.  Adamantine has a melting point of 25000.  If I make bridges out of adamantine, do you think they will deconstruct too?

What about if I make ramp/retracting bridge setups?  Do you think fixed temp critters will melt bridges above them?

Or is there some other obvious way that the bridges are deconstructing that I'm missing?

[Lytha]

Or is there some other obvious way that the bridges are deconstructing that I'm missing?

Building Destroyers? http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Building_destroyer

[Sphalerite]

Building destroyers don't destroy bridges.

Are the bridges being actuated by mechanisms?  Creatures of over 1,200,000 interfere with operating bridges.  If you lower a drawbridge on a creature over that size, or extend a retracting bridge with a creature that size in the way, the bridge will be destroyed.

Otherwise, it comes down to a matter of the temperature of the creature versus the melting or heat damage temperature of the materials the bridge is made from, and any mechanisms the bridge is linked with.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

The bridges were actuated (with iron mechanisms) but nobody was trying to flip them when they were destroyed.  They seemed to be destroyed by somebody walking over them.  Raised drawbridges aren't deconstructing, just lowered ones.  Just curious then if 25000 fixed temp will deconstruct 25000 melting point....  Time to make some expensive mechanisms!

[Quietust]

A creature with 25000 fixed temp will melt any nearby items having a melting point less than 25000 (which is pretty much everything but adamantine) - this was particularly common to observe in 40d when dealing with spirits of fire.