Two nifty methods to keep your flyers safe! (Avairy and Passive-follow)

This is a quick construction idea for an Aviary. We have lost a few Argentavis and Pteranodons to drowning, mystery deaths, and just flying away from base whenever something startles our pets.

Purpose

This is to help someone get an idea of how they may need to build an Aviary to keep birds safe. (and accounted for!)

Construction

This lightling and angle should show the size of it. This easily keeps one Argentavis and one Pteranodon safe with very little issues entering and leaving. If you want to store more than that, you may want to find the flattest place you can and build a lot more foundation to see how far you can build before building up. On the other side, you can see a normal wooden dinosaur gate, plenty large for the birds to fly in and out of. If you're having issues flying through the gate, destroy the nearby Thatch walls and readjust. I alligned the gate to take the place of two-long wall sections (two foundations) and it works fine. Before I had it centered with two walls flanking through it, and the birds couldn't get through, so this implies the Argentavis' body is greater than one foundation / wall section wide.
Don't make a 3-wide Foundation and place the gate centered. You will either have a gap on both sides, or build walls to fill the gap and birds won't fit through the gate. Build the gate to takeup exactly two foundations, as below.

Alternatively...

Credit to FlashGordn (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198008785891/) for this method.

Build a small fenced in area around something useless and rideable (Yes this means you,
Phiomia) mount up, target your flyers and whistle to follow.

Now your flyers can be set to passive, aggressive, anything; and they will always return to that useless little Phiomia.

With the addition of wander radius, your flyers are still unsafe (as even wild Pteranodon will drown itself for no reason, I've seen this a LOT!)

Conclusion

I'm really happy I build this, I didn't think it'd work because I've had birds glitch into houses and, when you try to get them out, they appear under the world and instantly dead with you on them. I haven't had any issues getting them out with one this small, and if you want to really store your tribes' flyers without issues, build multiple dinosaur doors and keep them open while you're online, and close them when people log out. We've lost high level birds to drowning, flying away, ect... this should prevent that from here on out.

Hope this was helpful to anybody else who was wondering if it'd work or not.

Cheers!

[Gooben]

If you guys are having issues with keeping flyers... Just tame a relatively beefy dino, get on the dino and whistle follow to all your flyers. this way if they run off and attack something or whatever they will fly back to the dino. I recommend putting the dinosaur on a tower or something as to not get the flyers stuck on ground obstacles if they fly pretty far away.

[polishweener]

If you want to be able to see inside of the aviary while still keeping the birds in, make the walls out of stacked railings (wood looks best in my opinion). Also note that you will need a behemoth gate if you want to fit a Quetz inside of it.

[Carrot]

Passive and no wandering means they stay put. They will still suffer knockback if attacked, however. This may push them off buildings or into water causing them to drown

[Carrot]

@Azerbain. Totoally incorrect. Neutral means attack if attacked, not "Do what they do in the wild"

[RaderBad]

Only had the game a couple of weeks. So far I have lost three Pteranodon's and an Argy. The Pteranodon's just disappeared, my first one when I died via the dread E key way up. I never found my body or the bird.

The other two were a mated pair and I landed them to kill the last raptor we were fighting, they were hurt but not too bad. After about an in game minute they were just gone. I think they clipped under the ground. Again no death notice.....

The Argy flew off fighting three of the smaller flyers, no death notice, no Argy. I am still looking, I will probably kill it myself.

There will be no more flyers for me until the issue(s) are fixed. It is way too much work and not enough time prior to them going away for no reason.

How about a homing pigeon instinct for tamed up flyers?

[Danger Tits]

@ Shriven. Kill the trike. Kill all trikes! Trikes are the spawn of the devil! They are a nuisance and must be eleminated from the Ark. All they do is kill poor innocent little raptors. They dont even give much meat! Kill them dead D-E-D dead. All of them. Best part about taming Rex is killing trikes.

[DrizzintahlTTV]

This Aviary is very handy when your base is near hostile flyers (which now includes ants).

You can have the best base around, but if you have no ceiling, Argentavis or Soldier Drones can still fly in and rile stuff up, causing flyers to... well... fly. Even if they fight, or fly away, they can still land in a puddle and drown.

Since my most recent base is near a river and Argentavis and Ants, this Aviary is kinda mandatory until they fix the AI.

[Shriven]

I simplybuilt a large pasture area for all my dinos. I have 2 pteras and 1 arga so far, along with some other grounded pets and nothing has happened to them in a month. Wild dinos can't get in and I guess because it's a large area nothing gets my pets riled up. I also have them all on neutral, which I believe means do nothing unless attacked because that's how they behave. They haven't glitched through the map either, although my trike is sometimes sunk to the knees.

[Bain Grey]

Passive means "Dont fight and stay put" Neutral means do what you would do when wild. Pteras will run when attacked. So..... there youhave it this is why Pteras run away and die

[DrizzintahlTTV]

Passive means "run away" and our base has vultures around, so if one swoops down, the flyers fly away. Our fences keep everything else out, but this is the reason we've done this. Argentavis fly in and scare our flyers into the water to drown, or just MIA. It's annoying.