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[Evrett33]

I havnt seeing any flying invaders in quite some time. I had understood the issues with lack of bats were a worldgen population and army movement problem. I wonder what would the best method of getting this issue addressed is since its been outstanding for several versions of DF now.

[GhostDwemer]

Using Masterwork I got some invaders on giant sparrows, and Masterwork only changes raws, so the code must be working in the base game. You just haven't gotten lucky enough to run into any. Probably the best way to get anything fixed would be to drop a couple hundred bucks on Toady with a note begging him to fix the thing. Barring that, it's his game and he does what he wants, we're just along for the (free) ride.

[Bumber]

What do you mean by flying invaders? Wildlife?

How many versions are "several"? I've seen keas, buzzards, and giant bats in a 0.42 world.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

I've seen flying forgotten beast.

[Goatmaan]

I think they mean sieges with flying mounts....

 Goatmaan

[Werdna]

I had a 43.03 game with Fortress Defense where a siege of Ferric Elves arrived with several squads on Giant Cardinals and the like, and they flew around just fine, so flying invaders are definitely possible.  Whether goblins can tame the necessary mounts in plain DF I guess becomes the question.

Some folks may be recalling an older bug with flying invaders, which I believe had pathing issues and would camp on the edge of the map and only attack when dwarves entered their sight.

[Bumber]

I think they mean sieges with flying mounts....

In that case, I haven't seen any mounts recently at all. Sieges are rare enough as it is.

[PatrikLundell]

Since beak dog mounts were fixed, goblin invasions regularly bring beak dogs in my experience. It requires world gen/embark site selection care to ensure invasions, though. It should be noted that I've made very sure the closest goblin site is a dark tower. I suspect invasions from crummy 50 gobbo dark pits won't bring mounts as the sites don't have them (and you'll only get 2-3 small invasions before the site runs out of bodies anyway).

[Bumber]

Since beak dog mounts were fixed, goblin invasions regularly bring beak dogs in my experience. It requires world gen/embark site selection care to ensure invasions, though. It should be noted that I've made very sure the closest goblin site is a dark tower. I suspect invasions from crummy 50 gobbo dark pits won't bring mounts as the sites don't have them (and you'll only get 2-3 small invasions before the site runs out of bodies anyway).

I got a few beak dogs in one seige, but I don't think they were mounted. Maybe their animal trainer died?

[PatrikLundell]

Well, currently there are even beak dog recruits riding beak dogs occasionally...
Beak dogs can also arrive without being mounts, though.