Not to mention it’s a serious nerf of engineering because many of the items there are less useful if they don’t work properly. Battle chicken, the mithril and arcane dragonlings, and so on.
Maybe I missed this, but the gnomish battle chicken AI has been fixed. I just tested it. It follows you now. Better late than never, I suppose.
I assume this fix also applies to the arcanite dragonling, but I haven’t made one yet and tested it.