feat: herding paces the movement clock, not the think clock

Herding is a movement scenario: the old CurrentSpeed getter hack forced
0.3 on the fused clock, which under the split misclassified - a herded
mob whose active think happens to be 0.3 walked at its (slow) move value
while any other mob got a bespoke 0.3. Now CurrentMoveSpeed drives a
herded creature at a fixed 0.3s per step - RunUO's forced pace, without
its TransformMoveDelay inflation to 0.6 - so herding is never penalized
by a slow creature. Thinking is untouched.

CheckHerding walks through MoveToPoint (cached boxed goal) instead of a
greedy per-think DoMove, so the movement clock actually governs pace
between think ticks - and herded creatures path around obstacles instead
of walking into them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Projects/UOContent.Tests/Tests/Mobiles/AI/MoveSpeedTests.cs

@@ -124,6 +124,21 @@ public class MoveSpeedTests : IDisposable
         Assert.Equal(bc.PassiveSpeed, bc.PassiveMoveSpeed); // still inheriting, not 0 * scalar
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public void Herding_DrivesMoveClock_ThinkUntouched()
+    {
+        var bc = NewCreature(); // think 0.3/0.6, passive
+        bc.SetMoveSpeed(0.45, 1.05);
+
+        bc.TargetLocation = new Point2D(10, 10);
+
+        Assert.Equal(0.6, bc.CurrentSpeed);     // think clock unaffected by herding
+        Assert.Equal(0.3, bc.CurrentMoveSpeed); // fixed herding pace, not 1.05
+
+        bc.TargetLocation = null;
+        Assert.Equal(1.05, bc.CurrentMoveSpeed);
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public void SnapSpeedsToTable_UndoesScalingDrift_KeepsTunedValues()
     {

Projects/UOContent/Mobiles/AI/BaseAI/BaseAI.cs

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ public abstract partial class BaseAI
     private Mobile _lkpTarget;
     private Point3D _lkpLocation;
     private IPoint3D _lkpGoal; // boxed _lkpLocation handed to the PathFollower
+    private IPoint3D _herdGoal; // boxed herding goal handed to the PathFollower
     private long _lkpExpireTick;
     private long _guardStopTick;
     private long _investigateStopTick;
@@ -627,6 +628,7 @@ public abstract partial class BaseAI
 
         if (target == null)
         {
+            _herdGoal = null;
             return false;
         }
 
@@ -634,7 +636,15 @@ public abstract partial class BaseAI
 
         if (distance >= 1 && distance <= 15)
         {
-            DoMove(Mobile.GetDirectionTo(target));
+            // A cached boxed goal keeps the PathFollower persistent across ticks; walking
+            // through MoveToPoint paces herding on the movement clock and paths around
+            // obstacles.
+            if (_herdGoal == null || _herdGoal.X != target.X || _herdGoal.Y != target.Y)
+            {
+                _herdGoal = new Point3D(target.X, target.Y, Mobile.Map?.GetAverageZ(target.X, target.Y) ?? Mobile.Z);
+            }
+
+            MoveToPoint(_herdGoal, false);
             return true;
         }
 
@@ -644,6 +654,7 @@ public abstract partial class BaseAI
         }
 
         Mobile.TargetLocation = null;
+        _herdGoal = null;
         return false;
     }
 

Projects/UOContent/Mobiles/BaseCreature.cs

@@ -269,8 +269,8 @@ namespace Server.Mobiles
         private double _activeMoveSpeed;
         private double _passiveMoveSpeed;
 
-        // Herding - Overrides the AI to force the mob to move to a specific location
+        // Herding - forces the mob to walk to a specific location, paced by the movement
-        // Thinking: 0.3s, Movement: 0.6s.
+        // clock at HerdingMoveSpeed. Thinking is unaffected.
         private IPoint2D _targetLocation;
 
         private int m_DamageMax = -1;
@@ -723,21 +723,21 @@ namespace Server.Mobiles
             set => _passiveMoveSpeed = value > 0 ? value : 0;
         }
 
+        // Herded creatures walk at a fixed standard pace regardless of their own speed
+        // (RunUO's forced 0.3, without its TransformMoveDelay inflation to 0.6).
+        private const double HerdingMoveSpeed = 0.3;
+
         [CommandProperty(AccessLevel.GameMaster)]
         public IPoint2D TargetLocation
         {
             get => _targetLocation;
-            set
+            set => _targetLocation = value;
-            {
-                _targetLocation = value;
-                AIObject?.OnCurrentSpeedChanged();
-            }
         }
 
         [CommandProperty(AccessLevel.GameMaster)]
         public double CurrentSpeed
         {
-            get => _targetLocation != null ? 0.3 : _currentSpeed;
+            get => _currentSpeed;
             set
             {
                 if (Math.Abs(_currentSpeed - value) > 0.0001)
@@ -751,25 +751,21 @@ namespace Server.Mobiles
         /// <summary>
         /// Resolved seconds per step: a verbatim active/passive <see cref="CurrentSpeed"/>
         /// maps to the matching movement value; a bespoke pace stays fused to both clocks.
+        /// A herded creature is always driven at <see cref="HerdingMoveSpeed"/>.
         /// </summary>
         [CommandProperty(AccessLevel.GameMaster)]
         public double CurrentMoveSpeed
         {
             get
             {
-                var current = CurrentSpeed;
+                if (_targetLocation != null)
-
-                if (current == _activeSpeed)
                 {
-                    return ActiveMoveSpeed;
+                    return HerdingMoveSpeed;
                 }
 
-                if (current == _passiveSpeed)
+                return _currentSpeed == _activeSpeed ? ActiveMoveSpeed
-                {
+                    : _currentSpeed == _passiveSpeed ? PassiveMoveSpeed
-                    return PassiveMoveSpeed;
+                    : _currentSpeed;
-                }
-
-                return current;
             }
         }