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[ImBocaire]

Maybe so, if wings actually did anything in DF related to flying. A flier with both wings severed can still fly, as my arena mode tests have shown.

[IT 000]

This is because of the redundant [FLIER] tag. The wings have the tag. This allows the creature to fly if it has wings. But the creature itself has the tag too. So even without wings it can still fly. Removing the creature's [FLIER] tag should fix this.

[Greiger]

Wait what?  That doesn't seem right, from my own messing around the flier tag on wings just in dictates that is related to the flier tag in the same way stance parts are related to walking and saw it behaving that way many times in fortress mode.

Yea, I just confirmed, (my custom fortress race is using vanilla wings that have the flier tag. They can't fly in adventure mode or fortress mode.) flier on wings without the flier tag IS NOT enough to allow a creature to fly.  The bodypart flier tag and the creature flier tag are two entirely different things.

And I just ran an arena mode test myself and an eagle with both wings disabled cannot fly.  Proof to follow.

Spoiler: Eagle with both wings disabled (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Eagle health status clearly stating that the eagle with heavy damage to both wings cannot fly. (click to show/hide)

Also attempting to fly manually, as I have control of the eagle, it cannot fly.

Spoiler: Gamelog from the test (click to show/hide)

*** STARTING NEW GAME ***
** Starting New Arena **
You hack Giant Eagle 1 in the right wing with your adamantine greatsword, tearing apart the muscle!
An artery has been opened by the attack and a sensory nerve has been severed!
Giant Eagle 1 leaps at You!
Giant Eagle 1 attacks You but You jump away!
Giant Eagle 1 charges at You!
Giant Eagle 1 attacks You but You jump away!
Giant Eagle 1 rushes by You!
You hack Giant Eagle 1 in the left wing with your adamantine greatsword, tearing apart the muscle!
An artery has been opened by the attack and many nerves have been severed!
Giant Eagle 1 charges at You!
Giant Eagle 1 attacks You but You jump away!
Giant Eagle 1 charges at You!
Giant Eagle 1 bites You in the right upper leg, bruising the fat through the adamantine mail shirt!
Giant Eagle 1 collides with You!
You are knocked over and tumble backward!
Giant Eagle 1 bites You in the lower body, bruising the scale through the adamantine mail shirt!
Giant Eagle 1 latches on firmly!
You are no longer stunned.
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the lower body, tearing apart the lower body's fat and bruising the muscle!
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the lower body, tearing apart the lower body's fat and bruising the muscle!
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the lower body, tearing apart the lower body's fat and bruising the muscle!
You are unable to break the grip of The Giant Eagle 1's beak on Your lower body!
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the lower body, tearing apart the lower body's fat and bruising the muscle!
You give in to pain.
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the lower body, tearing apart the lower body's fat and bruising the muscle!
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the lower body, tearing apart the lower body's fat and bruising the muscle!
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the lower body, tearing apart the lower body's fat and bruising the muscle!
Giant Eagle 1 bites You in the head, tearing the muscle!
Giant Eagle 1 latches on firmly!
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the head, tearing apart the head's muscle!
An artery in the head has been opened by the attack!
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the head, tearing apart the head's muscle!
An artery in the head has been opened by the attack!
Giant Eagle 1 bites You in the head, tearing apart the muscle, bruising the skull!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
Giant Eagle 1 latches on firmly to Your throat!
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the throat, tearing apart the throat!
A major artery in the throat has been opened by the attack!
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the throat, tearing apart the throat!
A major artery in the throat has been opened by the attack!
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the throat, tearing apart the throat!
A major artery in the throat has been opened by the attack!
Giant Eagle 1 shakes You around by the throat, tearing apart the throat!
A major artery in the throat has been opened by the attack!
Giant Eagle 1 bites You in the head, tearing the muscle and bruising the skull!
Giant Eagle 1 latches on firmly!
You have bled to death.
You lie on the ground.

With all due respect.  That information is wrong.

[MiniMacker]

I was not aware of that, Greiger. Nice find.

Going back to the original topic, elephants, hippoes or anything massive whom never defends themselves. The Magma Wiki states that

LIKES_FIGHTING       The creature will attack enemies rather than flee from them. This tag has the same effect on player-controlled creatures - included modded dwarves.

The wiki has been incorrect before, but I'm going to go ahead and add [LIKES_FIGHTING] to many of the mentioned beasts. I'm wondering if it will conflict with any other tag, causing weird schizophrenic behaviour? Or if they will attack other wildlife?

[Caldfir]

I suspect combining [LIKES_FIGHTING] with [VIEWRANGE:1] will result in the desired effect.  Someone less lazy than I should test this.

edit: preliminary testing in the arena yields promising results

The elephants ignored everything until it came right up to them, at which time they were thoroughly stomped on.  Requires testing in actual game modes though. 

[Caldfir]

Alright, "Caldfir Hairdrinkers" made a trip to the "Tactical Jungles" (I swear that name is legit).  Results are... mostly OK I guess?  Elephants act like angry guys who can't see anything, but this is a lot like standing their ground.  I think [VIEWRANGE:3] would result in them acting slightly less insane.  My battle with the elephant went as follows:

I saw an elephant (several actually, so I picked one).  I walked up to it.  At 2 squares away it did nothing.  Walking right up to the elephant alerted it to my presence, and it charged at me.  I dodged.  Elephant rushes past... and since it is 2 squares past me just keeps kinda running around for a bit.  Not at me or anything, just... around. 

Repeated encounters were similar.  As mentioned above, I think I will try again with [VIEWRANGE:3] and see if I like that better.  I think I might just add this makeshift "stands ground" tag to everything that makes sense.   In fort mode, elephant deaths would be rare, since dwarves will see and run from elephants before elephants even notice dwarves in almost all cases.  This will make more sense than the straight-up boatmurdered elephants that simply adding [LIKES_FIGHTING] would create. 

[Caldfir]

Alright, something seems to be screwey with [LIKES_FIGHTING], because the elephants could not be persuaded to do battle.  Adding [VIEWRANGE:3] [LIKES_FIGHTING] [PRONE_TO_RAGE:30] together seems to get the job done adequately though. 

[antymattar]

Ad the [Enraged-or-whatever] tags to them and make them [Likes fighting]

oh...Thats what the guy above me just said. Sorry.

[MiniMacker]

Alright, something seems to be screwey with [LIKES_FIGHTING], because the elephants could not be persuaded to do battle.  Adding [VIEWRANGE:3] [LIKES_FIGHTING] [PRONE_TO_RAGE:30] together seems to get the job done adequately though.

What do you mean "screwey"? Your tests above seems to indicate that it's functionable with the most prominent results.

[Caldfir]

When the view range was increased, elephants fled rather than attack.  They only attack if you're stood in the square next to them, regardless of the [LIKES_FIGHTING] tag.  If anyone can get it to work, or knows anything about it I'd be glad to hear about it.  If I can't get it working I'll probably head over to the bug tracker. 

[MiniMacker]

Well, reading up on tokens, what would happen if you gave them [NO_FEAR] or mixed mentioned tokens with it? Or would it become too Boatmurdered, if we did that?

[Caldfir]

let me try [NOFEAR]

edit: no effect - going to try generating a new world, and if I have no luck, will start asking around the mod board

edit: still nothing