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.

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.

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.

@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.

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