Villagers won't cross bridge

[juleatic]

I am playing on a fluvial map and finally decided to cross the river. Built a bridge, got everything ready for people to move in on the other side. Placed everything in advance so I can just watch as things are built and then let more villagers move to the city.
However, after the bridge was built, no one moved a finger to go built stuff on the other side. I installed a Builders Workshop over there, because I thought it might be to far away for the other builders. I keep getting the error that the villager can't reach the destination.
So I thought, well, maybe it's the bridge! So I built another one... Still the same issue. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? I really wanted to cross the river and I feel like... that's a very important feature for fluvial maps.

[Lokai]

Ah, glad to see it isn't just me. I just posted about this in general discussion wondering if it is some error on my end, but to your point this is probably a bug?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3419212895

Here is how mine looks and I've rebuilt it like 5 times in different spots, all of which have the same result of no one using it.

[cll1123]

Same. Just built a new bridge next to an old one and this EXACT bug just happened.

Six years in early release and this is what they give us?

[HR]

It's a very old annoying bug. The end of the bridge lays slightly underground, so the villagers can't reach it. If you rebuild it a little bit longer or start building it from the other side it will finally work. Unfortunately it is sometimes not possible to see in construction mode, if it will work. So what I always do since this happend to me first, is saving every time, when I want to build a bridge. Lay out the bridge. Save again. Fast forward game speed to see, if the bridge works. Loading the second save, if it works. Loading the first save, if it don't.

[DoctorDanny]

Same here. four hours into a village. And HR is right, rebuilding the bridge with longer parts of it on land solved the problem.

[Shealladh]

Originally posted by DoctorDanny:

Same here. four hours into a village. And HR is right, rebuilding the bridge with longer parts of it on land solved the problem.

Have to keep that in mind.
Thanks HR

[juleatic]

Thank you HR! I will try to rebuild it with longer parts. It's gonna be a tight fit, but i hope it'll work!

[nate24]

I still think this is a bug. Previous EA versions were not this sensitive to where the bridge ended to determine if it was accessible or not.

[Lokai]

Thanks for the thoughts and workaround HR. For clarity, do you have extend both sides of it to be significantly further onto the land?

[Bini]

I also had a similar problem. I managed to fix it by building a new one and extending the bridge so to make sure the acces is on the ground and not on the coast of the river. So make it a bit longer.
Atleast thats how I managed it.

[juleatic]

It worked with the Stone Village bridge, but not with the city bridge, which is a shame :(

[Kristof]

i just had the bug happen after hours of the bridge being up, just loaded the save and they refuse to cross it, however visitors cross it with no problem

[fefnir3284]

This is so damn annoying for me specifically as my berry pickers want the freaking berries on the other side of the river instead of the 50+ berries slightly, by 1 millimeter, further away.

[MsBunBun]

I found a solution, put the village centre on the other side and they should walk across

[lohithbb]

Originally posted by MsBunBun:

I found a solution, put the village centre on the other side and they should walk across

This worked for me.