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When a bridge falls (into pit), and there is a player-like (player, clone, temporal clone) on it, the bridge is drawn over the top of the tarstuff explosion from any tarstuff on the bridge, and over the falling player. Falling briar is also drawn as single-square blocks (this). If there's no player on it when it falls, everything is drawn as expected.
(In 3.0 and 4.0 the problem was even worse; the bridge, and anything on it that should fall, disappear completely.)

While I'm talking about bridges... This is still the case. Except for the active player, weapons vanish while falling.

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This also seems to happen with a gentryii that spans multiple bridges while you make multiple bridges fall. A bit far fetched, but it fits in there.

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skell
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I've fixed the falling briar bug PR

But I am requesting an example hold that showcases the gentryii and the tarstuff explosion problems, otherwise I'll assume it's working as intended now.

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Can confirm in 5.1.1.alpha.2020-10-16 that brair is drawn correctly when on a bridge that is dropped at the same time as a player or player-like critical character.

Can also confirm that tarstuff explosions seem OK.

Gentryii have all sorts of graphical issues when dropped from bridges however. See the attached example hold.

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kieranmillar wrote:
Gentryii have all sorts of graphical issues when dropped from bridges however. See the attached example hold.

So there are two issues:
1. Random swords
2. Disconnecting/disappearing chains happening across different bridges

I've fixed #1, but #2 is really beyond fixing - it depends on the fall order of the bridges. If a bridge with the head falls first, then the chain will not appear on the other bridges, because by then Gentryii will be fully disappeared.
If a bridge with the later part of the chain falls first, then the when the one with the earlier part of the chain falls, the chain is already disconnected from the part that fell.

See here:

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[Last edited by mrimer at 10-18-2020 02:54 PM]

kieranmillar
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Can confirm that random swords appearing is fixed in 5.1.1.alpha.2020-10-18.

The chains breaking / vanishing when the chain stretches across multiple bridges still exists but skell has acknowledged above that this probably won't be fixed, so that's OK. I think gentryii are the only monster that can exist on multiple separate bridges at the same time, so no surprise that the game can't handle this. I also think it's exceptionally unlikely to show up in practice, to have a gentryii span multiple bridges and have them fall at the same time.

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Snakes and rock giants can be on multiple bridges - they just need to be on another tile in between. (But that tile can be a platform so it doesn't support the bridge.)

This processes too fast for me to notice any oddities in 5.1.0, but I don't know how it would look on slower systems. Probably not any worse than the gentryii.