I have a little boar farm with three boar spawns near my fruit farm. I keep having the manually tell my hunters to stop retreating and kill the boar. Even when they have taken no damage.
I caught the boar at 1 causing the hunter at 2 to retreat right after the hunter killed a boar at 3. The hunt from the middle cabin was also retreating.
Also, hunters should retreat to their cabins, no to their homes. Foragers retreat to their shacks.
I just witnessed two hunters target and kill a boar to defend a villager. The moment the boar was killed, they both switched to retreat. I would like the emphasize that neither switched to “Gather Carcass”.
The next closest boar was 32 tiles away on the other side of a fence.
Just saw this happen again the next year. She switched to retreat when a tower killed the boar.
Then there was the boar that the villagers decided to kill but the hunter was fleeing from without taking damage.