[SOLVED] How to restore the lost "Metal Figurine" (Reaching Man) in Underrail 1.3.1.2
The problem
The main quest Return the Reaching Man requires returning the Metal Figurine to Denzil. I visited the Emporion Shopping Mall upper floor (northeast room, guarded by Frost and Vanga) too early, and the figurine later went missing — not on the table, not in my inventory, and not with any merchant (the item is flagged "Cannot be sold", so it can never end up in a shop). Rolling back my save would have cost me 10+ hours, so I had to find another way.
Why none of the usual console tricks work
pgiveitem misc\metalfigurine, plot\metalfigurine, !metalfigurine — all fail, because the real internal name isn't that at all. It is tchortistFigurine (camelCase).
Searching for the filename under data\rules\items\` finds nothing, ever — **because this item has no.item` definition file**. It's an inline item; its definition exists only inside the save file.
readGlobalProperty *figur* / *reach* return "No matching global properties found" — there is no global variable to flip, so writegp is a dead end too.
findstr on .item files returns nothing — those files are gzip-compressed, so plain text search can't read them.
The fix: build the missing .item file yourself
Tool: UFE (Underrail File Exporter) — dumps Underrail's binary files to JSON and patches them back.
Get the real name (if you don't have it): start a new game, goto up-mall, pick up the figurine, save. Export that save with UFE and search for "figurine" — the I:C field gives you tchortistFigurine.
Copy a template: take any Plot item from data\rules\items\plot\` (I usedbeasthead.item— its root class isNEI, same as the figurine) and copy it totchortistfigurine.item`.
Export to JSON: .\ufe.exe -e "...\plot\tchortistfigurine.item"
Edit only these values (leave everything else untouched):
I:C → tchortistFigurine
I:N → Metal Figurine
I:D → the figurine's description text
I:VM → Plot.68
I:W → 5.0 (weight)
I:Q → value__: 4 (quality)
Patch it back: .\ufe.exe -p "...\plot\tchortistfigurine.item"
Fully restart the game (so it re-scans the items folder), then in console: pgiveitem plot\tchortistfigurine. Done — go hand it to Denzil.
Two gotchas
Numbers (I:W, I:Q) must be bare — 5.0 and 4, no quotes, followed by a regular comma. Pasting from a webpage tends to sneak in curly quotes and breaks the patch with a parse error.
Back up your save first. This method is fully reversible — just delete tchortistfigurine.item and its .json and the game is back to normal.
Huge thanks to the author of UFE. This tool is a lifesaver.
