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Kai's Flyer Perches (Discontinued)
   
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Kai's Flyer Perches (Discontinued)

Description
Adds 2 small perches, 2 medium perches, and 1 large perch to your game. Perches constructed in your inventory. Also adds a general rally point, monkey/jerboa perch, dodo coop, bird cage, and wolf den - warning: wolves do sometimes get stuck trying to get situated in their den.

If you would like any of your dinos to ignore a perch or nest, craft a shiny bauble for them to play with and pop it in their inventory. It will keep them from using their perch/nest/whatever until it’s removed from their inventory.

Mod ID: 781204544

Flyers that are not currently following you will fly to a nearby perch. This depends on the AI sorting out a flight path so it can take a minute for flyers to find their perch. Make sure you leave space around the perches so flyers don't get stuck on their way.

I also added a little signpost that will work with any land-based creature. You need to put the dino’s name on the sign to get it to work.
Don't expect miracles. The turning radius on the big dinos in particular is abysmal. But it should help if someone whistles follow all by mistake, especially if you have a nice, open base.
The critter perch works for monkeys and jerboas, wolf den works for wolves, and the dodo coop works for (you guessed it!) dodos.

For best results stop them 15 meters or more away. If you give the dino/flyer some ground in between themself and the perch, coop, den, etc they'll have a much easier time getting to their home successfully.


The bird cage works with any dinos that you can pick up. Just throw them at the cage (FF on your keyboard while you're holding the dino) and they'll go inside of it in single player. In multiplayer, you’ll need to put them near it and then use the cage and they’ll get sucked inside. It's a hanging cage. It will snap to the bottom of a ceiling (if it's snapping halfway into the ceiling, step back a few paces and you should find the lower snap point) or you can put it on the ground or on a table.

Small perches will function for flyers up to vulture size and can hold up to 5 flyers. The wooden version will line the flyers up nicely but requires a bit more patience while they get themselves in position. The front of the wooden perch (the direction flyers will face) is the side that the nest hangs off slightly.

The regular medium nest will hold two mid-size flyers. The medium wooden perch holds one and will only work with an Argent by default.

The large perch will function for a Quetz or Wyvern.


Perches can be completely disabled. If you're going on a resource run, try to remember to disable your perch before you leave or give them a bauble to play with, or your flier might run off back to the perch when you go to unload. Flyers on a perch can be set to follow from the perch UI.

All perches can be set to a particular flyer (or group of flyers) by using "Set Flyer" in the radial menu. It will look for the name you enter at the start of the name, so on the small perches if you designate them to "Killer", Killer Jeff, Killer Joe, and Killer Bob can all use that perch. Set to "public" to make any flyers use it again. You can also select the classes of flyers that will use the perch by using the “Set Type” function.

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Default detection distance is 10000 (100 meters). Perch detection distance and whether the mod affects wandering dinos can be set in your gameusersettings.ini -

[FlyerPerchSettings]
DetectionDistance=10000.0
AffectWandering=false

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Auranim Sep 30, 2023 @ 3:03pm 
Come on, Tony! This needs some love!
Kitty Sep 10, 2023 @ 12:54pm 
Please update
LadyGamer Aug 12, 2023 @ 8:07am 
Amazing mod. Please can you update it?
Mr. Reaper Jul 30, 2023 @ 4:12am 
I like the idea, but honestly flyers rarely if ever use them. I was hoping they would draw the Flyer in so they wouldn't wander around as much. Since when the Flyer lands they seldom move around afterwards. In the end they feel too much like decoration to be of practical use. Great idea tho!
twigalucie Mar 8, 2023 @ 2:55am 
please update or let someone else update it. this mod is so awesome. i miss it so much.
Zombull Mar 2, 2023 @ 4:28pm 
Another voice for open source!
GUS_CHIGGINZ Jan 1, 2023 @ 8:11pm 
Will you consider open sourcing this mod? :D
SeaglassFoxen Sep 6, 2022 @ 12:33am 
Such a great mod. Wish it wasn't 5.5 years out of date.
JollyRoger097 Jun 16, 2022 @ 12:07am 
Has anyone been able to get the source code for this to update it? I really loved this mod when I used it, but with no updates to add critters it became useless to me. I may try to make a similar mod myself, but I have never made a mod nor have I ever coded with Unreal Engine of any version. So it may take a long while.
BevansDesign Sep 27, 2021 @ 5:03pm 
Just an update for those who are wondering if this is still working: for the most part, yes.

The dodo coop doesn't work. Dodos will be drawn in, but the pathing that sends them to a slot doesn't work. Eventually the coop will kick them out, but they'll still be "attached" somehow, and I'm pretty sure they won't eat until you get rid of the building.

The critter perch works, but it's glitchy. The pathing doesn't work very well, but in my experience the critters are usually able to find their way to a slot eventually.

Rally points and nests work fine, but they don't seem to work for any animals that were added to the game after the mod was abandoned. (My griffins don't react at all.)

If you can live with those issues, it's still a great mod. I love having my creatures automatically park themselves off to the side when I'm not using them. It sure would be nice if somebody updated this.