For the love of god, fix footbridges...

[Timmiej93]

You tell us that footbridges can't be built over walls and fences. Although I find that an odd choice, sure, since we know, we can live with that.

What I personally can't live with, is that I can't build a footbridge:
1. Alongside a wall or fence, even if it's just touching 1 tile. you basically need a 1 tile clearance around it to build it.
2. ... over a visitor / prisoner / other direction indicator. Like, what?! This better be a bug...

I've spent over half an hour to figure out what on earth was causing my issues, removing walls, foundations, floors, I've tried literally everything until the direction indicators showed up.

For those with the same issue: remove the direction indicators, save, load, place bridge.

[murgh]

What I do is make sure nothing is in the way, so everything is dirt around the area. Then place a bridge. And then use the magic of the Border Changer mod to alter the surrounding tiles into walls or water or whatever usually makes a bridge refuse to be placed. Works fine, you can even place walls/fences/whatever beneath the brigde which is otherwise impossible.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2137008016
See my new Railways mod for a screenshot with bridges crossing walls and water and fences which is absolutely impossible to achieve without the border changer tool.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1478823762254771364/1672AA87DEC973C32F260FD4B39B9728751EB73A/

[dragonsphotoworks]

Oh wow didnt know could do that! That gives me so many new ideas for prison.

[Timmiej93]

Do you just have a bot setup to post that message on every post related to footbridges murgh? I've seen you post it on so many topics, and yes, I've used it to do exactly what you said, but that's not at all what this topic is about. I'm not saying "I want to have a wall underneath my bridge but I can't". I know I can't, I know I can use your mod to circumvent that. No issues there. The issue is that there's some things that are either bugs, or the devs don't tell you, which make the bridges very fiddly. Not being able to build alongside a wall or fence, and not being able to cross direction indicators are bugs if you ask me.

[goober]

Footbridges only reach across a small ammount of tiles, so i cant even create a bridge.