Monster pods and flying enemies

So I've been told you can't tame flying monsters by some people and told you have to ground them by others, and some people say it's planned but others say it would be too OP to have flying pets and then there's people who swear they have tamed one before and blah blah blah.

I just want to know if it can be done for two reasons:
1: The AI is so unbelievably stupid that all of my ground monsters get stuck on rocks and don't have the good sense to teleport to me or come back to my ship with me.
2: The flying enemies are the cutest ones in the entire game, plus I found a bird that reminds me of Swablu from pokemon and I want it really really badly

So if it cannot actually be done legitimately, is there a mod for it or is it planned or are those weirdos who think having a derpy bird that dies in 3 hits following you around is too OP actually correct in saying they're deliberately omitted from taming?

 

I haven't tried taming myself

not only is the rate low, but it can get annoying

anyways you say they need to be grounded right?

why not just trap the flying mob, make a ground platform below it and use the device that way?

 

If it can be done at all? Like via mods? Probably.

It it can be done currently? In vanilla? Not to my knowledge. I hear it's for small monsters only, and it could be an issue where no flying monsters are tagged as small in the code.

 

Never thought of it, plus they're all pretty fast. I tried cornering one but the AI suddenly became really smart and it swooped under me when I jumped.

Too bad bait traps aren't a thing,

besides the joke item for boss 4.

>_>

 

yeah...you might have to make a sky platform with many gaps for them to fly through and once you see one fly through close off the exits and slowly narrow down the area of movement of the mob

once that is done break a small hole and weaken before trying to capture

 

Yes, you can only capture ground creatures that are smaller than you, the player.

The description says something along the lines of "Can capture small ground creatures below 50% health".

 

If you are having problems with pet AI you can try this mod.