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[Crandal]

I'm making a creature for Fortress Mode that uses wings, and therefore will likely be flying to and fro.  I recall from a few major versions back that flight pathing had a few issues, but I was wondering if any of them are particularly gamebreaking in 42.xx.

[Rydel]

IIRC, there were two major issues, neither of which were severly game breaking.

1. Creatures will only fly somewhere if a walking path exists to that location.  They won't necessarily take the walking path, since a flying path will probably be faster, but it still has to exist.

2. If a job is canceled while a flying creature is in a tree or on a roof, they may get stuck in the tree/roof or leave the item they were hauling in it.  The former part was fixed by the addition of climbing, but I think the latter still exists.  If it's in a tree, you can get the item back by chopping the tree down.  On a roof, you'll need to build a path to it.

[Putnam]

It was not fixed by climbing. It's still a problem. In fact, it's absolutely horrible. I would not recommend allowing flying for creatures, there are zero gameplay features that it adds and so many additional problems.