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The fourth argument is, again, item type. Again, I'm wondering what types are understood by the software. Does WEAPON work? CRAFT? What about, I dunno, BRACELET?

Item token, right. Same for reactions: 1st goes item token, 2nd is item subtype, 3rd is matgloss, 4th is matgloss subtype. Items are, obviously, made from material.
Here are item tokens:
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Item_token (very incomplete) and
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/40d:Item_tokens (more or less complete for previous versions) for item tokens, and material tokens you'll be able to find on the wiki too =)

I get it up through here. [REACTION_CLASS:FLUX] just means that this boulder has to be a flux stone. But it's got me wondering, what other reaction classes are there? I know there's gypsum. What else? Can I make my own? If so, where do they go?

See e.g. inorganic_stone_mineral.txt , reaction class for matgloss is set there, for example. You can make your own reaction classes, but only for materials, not for items. E.g. stone, metal, or tissues like plant material or skin can have reaction class, but item types/subtypes - sword, toy, door - can not.

Almost everything else you've figured out is exactly true =) Excellent job!

What are the valid entries for the skill argument?

Shaostoul's guide has a list in this post.

Can I add skills?

No =(

Using it and happy!.. I seem to repeat myself... but whatever =)
I have a couple of questions/issues.

First: were you trying to make smooth horizontal walls kind of 'isometric-style'? This is difficult to comprehend, since vertical smoothed walls are 'plain'. And four-wall smoothed rooms, or constructed houses aboveground - they look a little bit strange.

Second. I use Deon's Genesis mod. Here is hematite there, with your tiles. It's OK. And here is limonite. It is hard to read by itself, and somehow it combines three colors. Maybe something's wrong with my init.txt settings, but I don't know what.

Third. Ropes/chains are a bit difficult to read.

All that is just a humble opinion =) And BTW, I simply love that designating for digging gives a clear grid. Awesome for fort design!

Why can't I plant on 'Outside' irrigated stone?

You just can't. Remove mud (e.g. by building constructed floor over muddied soil, then removing this floor), and plant sunberries like hell =)

I think the training dummy is broken. I built one, but when I tried to add a task, there were no options. How do I fix this?

You need to have a training weapon (made at Carpenters Workshop) to do the training. Make a weapon, don't forget to assign a specific dwarf to the Training dummy (through 'P' - workshop profile), and add training task to the workshop.

Ahaha, that's epic =) That's why I love DF! Bashing dorf with a steel hammer for trade decision made by player, then chaining him for almost two months with limbs broken, then rushing to heal him - awesome!

(of course I don't know why was the dorf punished in the first place, but it could well be a mandate violation)

I may try some serrated steel discs next. Then again, the glass balls are starting to work a bit better. [Edit: I just loaded game to check, they do shatter damage to bones.]

Well, generally all BLUNT damage things are now bad. They work poorly. They may shatter every single bone ten times in a row, but a creature will survive, because there is no accumulated damage, and no death from skull shattered 10000 times. Only if you are very lucky, a piece of shattered bone can pierce brain, or heart, or lung. But that's rare, really.

EDGE damage things, however, can chop off limbs that hold weapons, or behead, or bifurcate. Currently they are more useful.

Well, bucket method is more labor intensive, in case of large farms especially.
But tastes really differ. I have nothing against bucket irrigation =)