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[darkflagrance]

So I heard at Something Awful that pathfinding for flying player-controlled creatures is no longer broken.

I attempted to test this by having my dwarves build walls on top of each other. It appeared that they would indeed fly to place the next wall component, though I couldn't trace their path. However, when laying down floor in the air, the dwarves stuck to an all-land pathway.

When I collapsed my impromptu structure, the collapser remained in the air, staring down at the ruin that he had caused. There didn't appear to be any cancel spam.

Can anyone confirm my findings?

[ToaHero92]

Yeah I've had my dwarfs fly into open space to build a wall but still need something to stand on to build floor

[Shaostoul]

Looks like you're going to see a lot of flying dwarfs...

[Untelligent]

How 'bout swimming dwarves?

I imagine that even if amphibious dwarves can comfortably pathfind through water, they still won't be able to build things down there, though.

[Shaostoul]

That be a problem still... Only because there is no way that I can think of making water go away easily. I think 2/7 is when you can't build anything any more.

[ToaHero92]

I'm in adventure mode Right now i steped off the ledge and I'm Flying!

[ToaHero92]

I'm able to go up and down using >< while flying!

[Stungun]

I can tell you that flying partially works in .08.

(Flying) Dwarves will path through the air, but only if they could access the destination by land. Which means if you've got say, a compltely enclosed structure with an underground tunnel leading the long way around to the outside, dwarves will happily fly over the wall as a shortcut. But if you seal over that tunnel, they won't fly over. Moreover, because of this, dwarves can get stuck on top of walls they've just built and you'll often need to build a ramp to get them down.

Dwarves that find themselves in the air with no jobs to do will remain in the air as well, since they can't path anywhere; they can't 'walk' out of the air, and are stuck in the air until you build a bridge or something up to them. A dwarf will move cardinally or diagonally out of the air one space to get unstuck, but not up or down.

I don't know if this has changed in .10 though.

[Patchouli]

What of flying traders? I recall one of the problems with that was they'd quickly fly directly to the depot, leaving their animals behind.

[Ohnoninja]

So I heard at Something Awful that pathfinding for flying player-controlled creatures is no longer broken.

Sup. Thank my obsessive modding for that little discovery. Also the Mushroom Kingdom mod.

(Flying) Dwarves will path through the air, but only if they could access the destination by land. Which means if you've got say, a compltely enclosed structure with an underground tunnel leading the long way around to the outside, dwarves will happily fly over the wall as a shortcut. But if you seal over that tunnel, they won't fly over. Moreover, because of this, dwarves can get stuck on top of walls they've just built and you'll often need to build a ramp to get them down.

Dwarves that find themselves in the air with no jobs to do will remain in the air as well, since they can't path anywhere; they can't 'walk' out of the air, and are stuck in the air until you build a bridge or something up to them. A dwarf will move cardinally or diagonally out of the air one space to get unstuck, but not up or down.

Awesome info. What I want to know is if this affects sieges. I've really wanted to test, but in a fit of irony, despite having 12 evil races, I haven't gotten a single siege or thief, even though I know it's enabled in the ini. Well not before my current modding experiment causes a fatal error. If so, flying siegers will be a terrifying thing.

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

Now this makes me wonder if I can get certain castes to be able to fly.. Although I believe I can I havent looked into it myself.

[Emong]

Now this makes me wonder if I can get certain castes to be able to fly.. Although I believe I can I havent looked into it myself.

Yep, the [FLIER] token is caste-level, so that works.

[Salabasama]

Also, this was done in Wizard Tower mod.  Only white wizards fly.