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Fine-tuned the above MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:FEATHER_TEMPLATE to get the right noun/adj setup:
[MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:FEATHER_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:GRAY]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:feathers]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:feather]
Removed the name from the tool as it'll end up after the material's adjective:
[ITEM_TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_FEATHER]
NAME:quills:quills <-------- removed this
[VALUE:10]
[SOFT_MAT]
Finally the raven's entry in creature_birds_new.txt:
[EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT:BY_CATEGORY:GIZZARD]
[EBO_ITEM:TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_FEATHER:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:FEATHER]
Better result:

Inventory item (b) is the generic butchered item. There are 4 because MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:FEATHER_TEMPLATE has the bone token.
Inventory item (d) is from the EBO_ITEM.
Other than that, once they go through the bowyering reaction, the product from either will produce 10 giant raven feather fletchings.

A quick look at the world_sites_and_pops.txt reveals:
137: Ushavsothbod, "Bladeblockade", vault
Owner: The Dimpled Unions,
25 Zalis's Guardians
50 Death Workers
1 Zalis's Catastrophe
The Deathworkers are the lvl 4 quadrupeds, the Zalis's Guardians are the bipedal weapon users of either lvl 6 mook or lvl 11 weaponmaster variety, while Zalis's Catastrophe is the monstrous archangel.

Bim's best defensive stat is lvl 11 great dodger, and his best offensive stat is a lvl 5 proficient knife user.
His dodger is at parity with a weaponmaster skill stat, before factoring in that his rolls-to-dodge will be buffed by Focused! and by running a dual-wield quick attack + dodge away combat to also get the buff for an active manual defense. His poor weapon skill means fights would run long. Poor skill and long fights don't matter if defense is high enough (read 2 lvls higher than the attacker's skill). Bim's defense isn't. He also doesn't know their material type (metal = death). What's also interesting is the unknown size of the guardians. At high strength, Bim could run Kisat Dur's wrestling-oriented disarms if they are the same size as he is. If their clothing is large then the potential to get killed begins to spike, since it's doubtful he could succeed at dagger stabbing to disarm. So these are all the negatives.

Bladeblockade is nestled in a mountainous region...
…and the initial scout reveals the vault is half-surrounded by multiple z-levels. This can aid in visual stealth and speedy escapes. Zalis the Dented Flight is the dwarven goddess of death, fortresses and war. Usually the thing to say to a death god when you're not ready is "Not today," but since we're pretty close to the artifact arc rollout, Bim decides to pit his 3.4 sprint and the environment's multiple z-levels advantage versus the denizens of the vault. It's definitely stupid given all his disadvantages, but almost every run needs one reckless act to standout from all the hopefully more well-considered ones.

Bim peeks inside.
The Zalis's bipeds (lvl 6-11) themselves are dwarf sized feathery flesh and the EXTRAVISION Catastrophe is made of ash. I wonder if Bim's luck has run out, but as the archangel gives chase, it's clear Bim's sprint is more than enough, combined with the z-level changes. Bim zips eastward and then around the white wall, steering northwest into several z-level changes. When any NPC has no clear pathing option to your character, they return to their point of origin. The Catastrophe, having come out alone and being made of ash, could have been slain running a quick attack + dodge away combat, but it was more rangery to evade and escape.

Happy with the result. In Bim's case, I think tagging any vault denizens in his kill list would have made the run, pretty much an any adventure mode run. It's in keeping with being an explorer-ranger than he continues north toward his 2nd mountain peak.

I didn't start local traveling until I hit the dwarven road, and I felt that the journey was wasted if I wasn't 'in the environment' for it. Axegirl got her foot clawed off shortly after we emerged from that, so in order to take advantage of her crutches to train her agility and endurance, I continued local travel. Other than to navigate cities, I've run in local ever since.

For some reason I thought you had local/slow traveled most of the run. Definitely slows down the rate at which a character does anything.

@Random_Dragon: Was thinking about upping max edge on stone and bone. I noticed you've got stone at 5k. Have you felt that was a good cut value versus unarmored? Was 10k too much?

EDIT: I found that after bringing stored fat down to 0, mass continues to decrease and speed increase. I'm not losing any physical stats or relative sizes of any layers, so it must be coming off of total mass, which would proportionately reduce all layers (including bone.) What I'm doing could be construed as an exploit, but the same thing could be achieved with bulimia.


This is no doubt sacrificing wrestling and charging advantage, but someone who wanted to take this to a greater extreme could reduce mass to elven size, and at the rate I'm gaining speed, would probably be faster than an elf of equal size. That's assuming this doesn't kill you.

How are you dropping fat% for your character?

Sort of at a loss for which token controls filling tavern barrels. If it indeed is outdoor/indoor farming/gardens in the entity.txt, then I guess there's no way to get animal milk alcohol into taverns.

Edit: Bah! Found AceSV's thread. Not interested as of now in making a plant for this.

That's working as intended. All liquids and powders (LIQUID_MISC, POWDER_MISC) get washed away by rain.

Your iron chain leggings when smelted, become "a molten iron" (LIQUID_MISC) and will in 1 tick, become "a iron" (GLOB). But because it's raining, it gets washed away.

You need to smelt in either good weather or indoors.