[3.60 beta-hotfix 2] NPC hunting - attacks my pet stag, lets me eat his meat

[Plotinus]

Today I got to see an NPC hunting! I gave him a roach because i wanted him to cook it, and then I followed him around to see what he would do. There was a bear in the area that he was tracking. His dog stayed closer to me than to him while he was trailing than bear -- it may have been better for the dog to stay closer to his adventurer but maybe the dog judged i might be the bigger threat or maybe the NPC didnt want him rushing ahead and getting killed by the bear. Once the NPC got aggressive, the dog came running to help with the fight and together they took down the bear. The NPC skinned the bear and cut it for meat. He kept 76 meat cuts in his inventory and left the rest of the meat, the skull, and the bones on the ground. Then he lit 3 fires to roast the meat. He didn't mind when I picked up the skull, took out the teeth, hung it on a nearby pine (it would be a neat touch for the NPC to hang the skull himself). I hung around for a while, his dog ate some of the meat on the ground. He also didn't mind when I took the rest of his meat cuts -- this might not be a bug, because it was more than he could carry so I guess he didn't want it.

I saw in news.txt that tanning the hide isn't implemented yet.

In all this excitement I forgot to check whether he roasted that roach i gave him at the start, but I'll go back and find him again soon but I got the punt quest at the village I took the bear meat to so it'll be a little while to I can track him down.

[Plotinus]

Update! I caught up with him again. He's been busy. here he is skinning and butchering a forest reindeer. He doesn't have the roach anymore, maybe he ate it.

I tried to talk to him because i wanted to ask him about his skills, since i saw he got a harsh hide this time, but before i could do that he suddenly got aggressive: he'd found something new to hunt: My pet reindeer stag. At this point I'm going to save the game in case you want to look at it.

[PALU]

Hm, reindeer are the only animal in the game that can be found both as domesticated ones and in the wild. Wild boars are a different (sub?)species from domestic pigs, and so don't need any special handling, and wolves and dogs are similarly different subspecies.

[Sami]

First of all, great to witness new NPC hunting AI being reported and seen working in action. Nice!
And I'm sure many unimaginable things can happen as this is now a thing. We'll be reasoning and adjusting it based on the reports.

NPCs currently don't mind if their hunting "leftovers", such as excess meat, is picked up so scavenging is a thing now. For a little while at least. We'll be adjusting that as well in the future.

[Sami]

Fixed the domestic animal hunting thing. The rest (regarding item ownership) are still to-do.