ModernUO/Projects/UOContent/Mobiles
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fix(ai): guarding pets never target their owner or the owner's pets (#2665)
Supersedes #2657 (rebased onto #2662, which the original branch conflicted with). Credit to @MithrilHammer for the diagnosis, the fix and the regression tests; their three commits are kept as authored.

Fixes #2656.

## Root cause

When a guarding pet's combatant hides or becomes invalid, its AI calls `AcquireFocusMob` to find a new target. A controlled creature with no `ControlTarget` (Guard normally has none) fell out of `HandleControlled` and into the wild-creature scan, where `IsEnemy` treats any player as an enemy. With `FightMode.Closest`, the owner won. The fall-through dates to #2232. RunUO never let a controlled creature reach the wild scan.

## Changes

- `AcquireFocusMob`: a controlled creature returns whatever `HandleControlled` decides. Guard uses `FindGuardTarget`, Attack uses its `ControlTarget`, and every other order acquires nothing.
- `FindGuardTarget` skips guard allies: the master and creatures the master controls, including controlled summons. Uncontrolled summons (energy vortex, blade spirits) attack their caster, so a guard still defends against them, as in RunUO.
- Friendly fire: `BaseAI.OnAggressiveAction` stands a guard down when an ally is the aggressor. `BaseCreature.Combatant` refuses an ally while guarding, because `Mobile.AggressiveAction` assigns the first aggressor as `Combatant` before any retaliation policy runs. The veto sits on `Combatant` rather than `CanBeHarmful`, so what a pet can harm doesn't depend on its current order. An explicit Attack order and bard provocation can still target an ally.

## Tests

16 regression cases in `GuardFriendlyFireTests` (skipped without client map data), including a real `WhiteWyrm` reproduction. `UOContent.Tests`: 1142 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed on Windows.
2026-09-23 10:13:34 -07:00
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Abilities refactor: Changes BaseCreature to the SerializationGenerator (delta save requirement) (#2611) 2026-09-06 14:11:51 -07:00
AI fix(ai): guarding pets never target their owner or the owner's pets (#2665) 2026-09-23 10:13:34 -07:00
Animals fix: respect active region MountsAllowed for players (#2630) 2026-09-11 17:26:06 -07:00
Familiars fix(ai): FamiliarAI owns familiar movement and combat; herding reaches its tile; ForcedAI read once (#2644) 2026-09-14 23:14:30 -07:00
Guards feat: Adjusts fame and karma system with era gates for OSI accuracy (#2389) 2026-04-25 11:19:57 -07:00
Healers feat: Adds Mobile.Murderer virtual property, consolidates kill-threshold checks (#2355) 2026-03-06 08:36:41 -08:00
Hireables refactor: fold hand-written serializable property setters into field hooks (#2587) 2026-08-22 18:20:39 -07:00
Monsters fix: pets freeze, forget their orders, obey the wrong players, and fight when told not to (#2614) 2026-09-10 19:28:13 -07:00
Special perf: keep damage entries in an inline intrusive list (#2605) 2026-09-01 23:25:14 -07:00
Townfolk feat: adopt serialization generator v4 (field-side linkage, anchored timers) (#2586) 2026-08-22 17:54:02 -07:00
Vendors fix: sell Bushido and Ninjitsu books through Tokuno scribes (#2622) 2026-09-09 23:07:32 -07:00
BaseCreature.cs fix(ai): guarding pets never target their owner or the owner's pets (#2665) 2026-09-23 10:13:34 -07:00
CreatureEvents.cs refactor: Changes BaseCreature to the SerializationGenerator (delta save requirement) (#2611) 2026-09-06 14:11:51 -07:00
NPCSpeeds.cs refactor: Changes BaseCreature to the SerializationGenerator (delta save requirement) (#2611) 2026-09-06 14:11:51 -07:00
PlayerMobile.cs fix: pet release never finished, summon master follows the pet, horse breeder and notoriety guards (#2613) 2026-09-06 16:12:29 -07:00
VirtualMountItem.cs fix: Fixes mount stamina, adds Pub46+ Ethereal stamina (#1716) 2024-04-05 21:05:16 -07:00