Animal Crossing Glitch Prevents Players From Walking Across Their Zen Bridges

That tweet is kinda funny, ngl.

LET HIM OUT! D:

I have eight zen bridges which are all still functioning as intended so all good on my end.
Pretty funny glitch but no more than a mild inconvenience. Just use a vaulting pole or terraform a path next to the bridge to use until Nintendo fix it, which shouldn't take long based on how quickly they've patched previous bugs.

When you pay for the most expensive bridge and it doesn't even work.... that's pretty entertaining 😂

I didn't have any issue with mine yesterday. I'll check again later though.

A wooden arch stands
Where once it bridged distant banks
Now it divides them

Crossing the Zen bridge is perhaps the greatest challenge on the path to enlightenment.

ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ

_{At least until the next patch.}

I have been playing every day since launch. This is a great game. While I sympathize with players with the glitch (I use every bridge every day as I hustle around my island!) like BenAV posts, it shouldn't be too long for a fix.

And my life has a whole lot more glitches than this game!

Build a bridge and get over it, you crybabies.

Oh, that's right, you can't. Bawahahaha.

People here are mostly taking this in good humour, which is great! All I can think about, though, is how different the reaction would be if the exact same type of bug had been introduced into a mainline Pokémon game. (After all, this is not the first nor the worst progress-impeding bug to surface in ACNH and previous such bugs have persisted for weeks - and barely a week ago a much more avoidable bug was introduced into mainline Pokémon and people weren’t nearly this cheerful about it.)

The tweet is a little funny but just get the pole out and cross the river the old fashioned way.

@Darknyht some people became so used to the bridges that they don`t even take the essentials with them. I personally don`t care, I have one bridge on my island and I don`t much care because it`s not a zen one

Uh-Oh....
Prepare your Pole Vault and Wetsuit to across the river and sea.

@ArtiomNLS true, but they are right at their house so their storage is available. They also probably have a crafting table either in or by their house.

I get the complaint but it isn’t preventing him from doing anything but crossing that bridge.

@Darknyht let alone resident services, terraforming, etc...

@BenAV It looks like it's only happening to zen bridges on the third height level. Most likely a boundaries glitch. Because that's the highest place you are able to go in the game. With the new "underwater" level it became one level higher.

A fix should be simple, just increase the top boundary of the Island.

>break how the game works
>complain when the game "glitches"
"NOOO NINTENDO FIX THIS RIGHT NOW!!"

I swear that some people are just... just.

@sanderev One of mine is on the top level and I can still cross it fine so it's not all of them at least.

@Northwind If Pokemon had nearly this much care, charm, polish and content put into its games then the bugs would be no big deal rather than yet another example of GameFreak's incompetence.

@SpaceboyScreams, my point is that ACNH has actually suffered a greater number of progress-impeding bugs than Pokémon, and on the whole those bugs have taken longer to patch.

Everyone is free to like or not like whatever they want, of course, but it’s funny to me to hear someone use the word ‘incompetence’ to refer to the game that has suffered fewer bugs and for which the few bugs that have cropped up have been patched exponentially faster.

My point is that a lot of people seem to be suffering from confirmation bias, and their judgements about what’s ‘competent’ seem to be based less on what the devs do or don’t do and more about their prior opinions about those devs.

When we look at just prevalence of bugs and how long they take to fix - removed from emotion and preconceived biases - a distinct double standard begins to become apparent.

It a yokai we have to wait for the next update

@BenAV @sanderev I also wonder if it has anything to do with the lenght of the bridge, haven't seen that mentioned anywhere. Those zen bridges, I have 1 on the first level, are really high. I'm not sure how long they go - I have 2 of the brick bridges, 1 over a 2 wide river, 1 over a 5 wide river - but I can't tell if the height changes b/c they are 90' to each other. Maybe if people set the zen bridge to the longest length, or shortest, only then does it get stuck? Longest makes sense if it keeps the arc, you would be crazy high at that point.

And whoever said - well they lowered the island 1 level for sea level so it brought the ceiling down - good call, sounds very logical.

Maybe when they fix this they'll let us put stuff on top of the 4th level? Or at least hang some pictures on it's side. I have 2 walls to give some depth to my "valley" but I'd like some flowers up there, or some small fossils.

@Northwind
As far as how I personally feel in regards to both, I have to say that at least what makes the bugs in animal crossing easier to deal with over any that comes into Swsh is simply that, as of currently, every update coming to Animal Crossing is free and it's an obvious upgrade to the last game we had on 3ds. The base game for Swsh felt lacking, then paying for additional content and Home is...sigh, so when you consider all the charges to fully enjoy SwSh you'd think they would make sure this game stays up to snuff at a higher rate. It should be more expected than a developer giving updates for free.

@rjejr That could be it. I think my river on the third level might be four tiles wide off the top of my head so maybe my bridge is just too short to encounter the bug.

Stinks for the people using those bridges. It'll probably be fixed soon. I almost went with Zen but chose something else.

Yup, heard about this glitch on GameXplain... this is extremely unfortunate. I’m glad I haven’t been affected, tho

@BenAV It's tempting me to go build 1. I honesty only found out a day or 2 ago the bridges could be different lengths, I had just assumed they were a fixed size, seemed like all the rivers were the same width before I started terraforming all over the place.

Or.... I could just go google it. Never would have dawned on me to make a diagonal bridge. I would kill for a diagonal fence option though, so many cliffs need fences but so many are diagonal.

https://game8.co/games/Animal-Crossing-New-Horizons/archives/284596

The idea of someone getting angry over a zen bridge amuses me.

@Desa, if that’s your opinion then I totally respect that. As for me, I lost interest in the most-recent 3DS Pokémon games around halfway through the generation (around the time the Ultra versions came out). To the contrary, I currently have ‘315 hours or more’ on my current save file of Sword (started at the end of January), making it the second-most played game on my Switch (behind SSBU, ‘390 hours or more’, but I’ve been playing SSBU for over a year longer). Skimming over my friend list, I have 66 Switch friends—all people I actually know, either IRL or through social media—and roughly 50% of those have 50 hours or more on either Sword or Shield (and most of those have over 100 hours, and some have 50-100 hours or more in each of Sword and Shield). ETA: One friend in particular has ‘655 hours or more’ in Shield, ‘490 hours or more’ in Sword and afaict hasn’t played ACNH. So, I feel somewhat comfortable stating that a significant portion of Switch owners are enjoying the games (since I consider ‘total play time’ to be a better indicator of enjoyment than sales figures; lots of people buy lots of games, but only games that are truly enjoyed tend to get that much play time).

In the interest of fairness, I’ll also point out that I have ‘over 155 hours’ on ACNH, and that that time was amassed between launch day and 8 June. I really do enjoy ACNH overall (though I’m not a fan of some of the changes they’ve made from past versions, eg. to the format of the Fishing Tourney) but I sort of burnt out after 8 June, and haven’t booted it up since. I’ll go back to it eventually, I’m sure, but after literally thousands of hours of diving in ACNL and the Pokémon DLC having dropped recently, the current update hasn’t been enough to rekindle my interest yet.

tl;dr: To each their own, but not everyone finds Sword and Shield ‘lacking’ and not everyone—even those who genuinely enjoy it—finds ACNH enjoyable enough to completely ignore the somewhat large number of progress-impeding bugs it’s had or the fact that those bugs have historically not been addressed for weeks.

Legit happened to me within the first ten minutes of updating and the first thing that came to mind was "I'll just destroy it later" and just went a diffrent direction lol

Also confirmed that destroying and rebuilding doesn't work. It has something to do with the bridges elevation on the 3rd level.

@Ardisan Maybe we should start a campaign?#freesekiroarts

Did that guy from the tweet completely forget that the vaulting pole is a thing?

I mean, after making the whole island accessible by walking I do forget sometimes that I could get from A to B more quickly by jumping over a body of water instead of using the bridges, but... Come on.

@Darknyht or you know, temporarely remove some water so you can walk across. There’s plenty of options here

@somebread Good call! Resident Services! You have a phone app to rescue you if you get stuck. I’ve never used it. Hopefully they don’t just drop you home.

@Tandy255 they give you a few options to choose where you want to be dropped off, including the town hall if you're desperately needing to get rid of that bridge