Bridge

Bridge

A flat wooden surface on supportive beams which can be built over water. You can build light structures on bridges, but be careful - bridges are fragile. If a bridge falls, buildings on top of it fall as well.

Base Stats

Type

Structure

Market Value

20  ^[Note]

Beauty

0

HP

35

Flammability

80%

Building

Size

1 × 1

Placeable

True

Terrain Affordance

Bridgeable

Move Speed Factor

100%

Creation

Work To Make

1,500 ticks (25 secs)

Resources to make

12

Technical

tags

Floor

Bridges are structures that can be built on water, and allow light buildings on top of them.

Acquisition

Building a bridge requires  12 Wood and 1,500 ticks (25 secs) of work. They can only be constructed on the following terrain types:^{[Moving water?]}

• Marshy soil
• Mud
• Marsh
• Shallow water
• Shallow ocean water

Summary

While structures, bridges act similar to a floor tile. Unlike the water its on, bridges don't penalize movement, making travel faster. They can also support structures that require a terrain affordance of "light", such as wooden walls and buildings, but not structures that require medium or heavy terrain affordance, like any other type of wall.

Bridges can be damaged or destroyed by fire or explosions.^{[Specificity]} When destroyed, whatever is built on top will be destroyed alongside it.

Bridges can also be removed from the "Remove Bridge" gizmo under Architect/Structures.

Analysis

Bridges are essential if you need certain objects on water or marshy soil, such as wood walls, or moisture pumps, which removes the water. Due to the faster move speed, colonists and raiders alike may path through the bridge, allowing you to control their movement. In practice, raiders will not attack any wall unless 1. they are sappers or breachers, or 2. they have no reasonable target they have access to, so surrounding your watermill generators with wooden walls is relatively safe.

Power conduits can be built on bridges, replacing the need for waterproof conduits. The latter costs  10 steel, which is 10x more than a regular conduit. However, the bridge has its own wood cost, and bridges are much more vulnerable to fire.

Version history

• 1.2.2753 - Can now be auto-rebuilt.

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Architect

Structure

Animal flap • Autodoor • Bridge • Column • Door • Fence • Fence gate • Ornate door • Wall • Security door

Related

Roof

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Architect

Floors

Burned floors (Carpet, Straw matting, Wood floor, Bioferrite plate) • Concrete • Flagstones (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Gold tile • Paved tile • Silver tile • Steel tile • Sterile tile • Straw matting • Wood floor • Fungal gravel • Hex tile • Spikecore plates • Totemic boards

(research)

Carpet • Stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Fine carpets • Fine stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Hex carpet • Mindbend carpet • Morbid carpet • Morbid stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Spikecore stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Totemic stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Bioferrite plate

Floor coverings

Animalist slab (Medium, Broad) • Morbid slab (Medium, Broad) • Rustic rug (Medium, Broad) • Spikecore floor-star (Medium, Broad) • Totemic slab (Medium, Broad)

Related

Bridge • Smooth stone • Void metal