How long does it take for a bridge to be repaired in Dragon's Dogma 2

There are few spots in Dragon’s Dogma 2 where a single bridge is your only point of ingress to an area. Usually, there’s a detour, but there are a few where there isn’t. So, if you destroy one of these bridges, how long do you have to wait?

It’s hard to give you a direct answer here. A few days is the easy way to explain it, but have you ever heard the phrase “A watched pot won’t boil?” It’s a phrase that means if you do nothing but anticipate something happening, the time you wait will feel like an eternity.

I’m applying it in a more literal sense here. To be clear, I’m speaking of suspension bridges; ones made of wood. Stone bridges cannot be destroyed. For this test, I accidentally knocked down a bridge that leads to the Wyrmsblood Forest in Battahl using lightning magick. Don’t worry, I survived, but my Pawns weren’t so lucky. Each one plunged to their death, either splattering against the canyon floor or being taken by the brine.

So, I returned to Bakbattahl and stayed a night in my house. I then returned and the bridge was still out. There was no detour. So, I decided to wait and see how many days would pass before it was repaired. I went south to a campsite where I could easily view the bridge. Then I waited. And I waited. And I waited.

Eventually, the Pawns were like, “You really like this particular campsite for some reason, don’t you?”

But no bridge appeared.

More than a week passed, and then I got bored and headed South. I went right up to the labyrinth in the extreme south of Battahl and turned around. Sure enough, without having even rested, the bridge was there.

There’s a good chance that, based on how Dragon’s Dogma 2’s world works in terms of respawning and refreshing its instances, it’s actually distance-based rather than time-based. But to be safe, maybe give it a few days. If enemies you had previously eliminated in an area have respawned, then there’s a good chance that the bridge is back. Try to be more careful this time.

Can you repair bridges in Dragon’s Dogma 2

No, you can’t repair bridges yourself. In fact, one of the phrases your Pawns will say is a remark on how there’s nothing you can do about the bridge and that you should move on.

If there’s a detour, you’ll just have to go that way. If the bridge was over a solid surface, you can climb down the remains of the bridge like a ladder and maybe climb up the other side. Otherwise, you’ll just have to wait until the invisible bridge gnomes come around to repair it.

So, the only answer here is that you should just do something else in another part of the map for a while and then check on the bridge later.