Decay and Take down
A stretch cut off from the temple slowly gives way and collapses. Take down removes one of your pieces or its tip.
Cut-off stretches
When a bridge breaks, whatever lies beyond it is no longer connected to the temple. There the Collectors stop giving wind, the towers go quiet and the element can close. The cut-off stretch does not fall right away: it slowly gives way and collapses after 30 s. Seasoned planks last a little longer. An island left cut off goes back to neutral and loses its buildings. If you reconnect it before then, it stops giving way and mends itself, at a third of the pace at which it was giving way. You can reconnect it from the tip of the cut-off stretch.
Take down
Press and hold on one of your bridges, or right-click, or press Delete on the computer. You can take down the whole piece or just the tip. It takes 2 s. You can’t take down a bridge with a building on it or with someone walking on it: wait for them to pass. It is useful to free a landing, to remove a tip the enemy can hook onto or to change road. Taking down gives no wind back. Cells you take down do not count as lost for the Solid bridges feat.
See also
- Mentioned here or mentioning this page
- Bridges and landings · Defending the Veiled · Deluge · Drifting islands · On your phone · Solid bridges
What’s new
- v22 Towers don’t break bridges anymore. A shot on a bridge hurts whoever is on it, but the plank holds. A bridge now falls in just three ways: cut off from the temple for a while, hit by the sky (the Gust on the tips, storm lightning, Saetto’s Wrath), or hit by the powers made for it: Thunderstorm, Deluge, Cistern, Landslide and the Blaze weave. The Landslide now also drags down nearby enemy planks.
- v14 After a drag the view keeps sliding a little and stops with a tap. On computers: arrows or WASD, middle mouse button, Space to go back to the temple, U for the last event. Take down from the keyboard is now Delete.
- v13 A stretch of bridge cut off from the temple doesn’t fall right away: it gives way slowly and collapses after about twenty seconds. If you link it again before that, it goes back to normal.
- v13 Take down: hold down on one of your bridges, or right-click, to take down the whole piece or just the tip. You can’t take down a bridge with a building on it or with someone walking on it.