Friendly turkeys fly over a fence, they stay at Z+1 and stop following you (can't see you?)

[Brambor]

Describe the bug

Friendly turkeys fly over a fence, they stay at Z+1 and stop following you (can't see you?)

Steps To Reproduce

1. Load save.
2. Climb over a fence.
3. Observe fewer turkeys are following you.
4. Climb onto shelter roof by north steplader.
5. Observe turkeys are in the air.

Expected behavior

Turkeys can see you down there and will follow you down there.

Screenshots

Versions and configuration

• OS: Windows
  • OS Version: 10.0 2009
• Game Version: 0f8bd78 [64-bit]
• Graphics Version: Tiles
• Game Language: English [en]
• Mods loaded: [
  Dark Days Ahead [dda],
  Disable NPC Needs [no_npc_food],
  Bionic Professions [package_bionic_professions]
  ]

Additional context

I cannot look up and have to climb on the roof to see they indeed are in the distance stuck flying over a fence.

[Brambor]

Turkeys stay afloat for an entire day without going down. Doesn't really make sense and I will slowly loose my turkeys :(

[actual-nh]

Do you have 3d/Z-level vision on? They should be able to see you and vice/versa if you turn it on (as well as other monsters the same way!).

[Brambor]

Do you have 3d/Z-level vision on? They should be able to see you and vice/versa if you turn it on (as well as other monsters the same way!).

I hadn't. It defaults to false. However, this is not obvious to regular players, that they should turn it on when their turkeys seemingly disappear.

[Brambor]

Even with 3D vision, the turkey doesn't want to go down and keeps flying. Still, it is a huge improvement for getting the birds back. But I don't know how to get the turkey down...

[actual-nh]

Probably monster Z-level pathing problems. Have you tried climbing over the fence again to see if it follows you then?

[Brambor]

Probably monster Z-level pathing problems. Have you tried climbing over the fence again to see if it follows you then?

I haven't, but will, thx for tip.

[Brambor]

Probably monster Z-level pathing problems. Have you tried climbing over the fence again to see if it follows you then?

I did now, They didn't follow down, but I could see them since I now have 3D vision enabled.

I think they fly (levitate?) for too long. I would go along a road, see turkeys in the forest and they often are flying... Real turkeys would sit down the moment they could to preserve energy.

[actual-nh]

For the fence ones, if you can reach them by climbing, you should be able to leash them now (#50890). Currently, the "FLIES" flag is, well, binary - either a critter has it or it doesn't. Ideally, monsters that should be flying all the time would be specifically marked, and the rest would be on a structure or the ground if they didn't have a reason to fly.

[Brambor]

I see that I forgot to attach a save file. Sigh...
Or I wanted to but the 3d was brought up so quickly that I thought it was not needed anymore.
Silly me.

[Brambor]

#68255 (or some earlier PR) fixed this.
It is now also easy enough to get friendly turkeys down from the roof with a leash.

Spawned a chain link fence and went over it, turkey following me. The turkey flies over the chain link fence. And I can still see it.