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I can confirm you don't have to regen a world, Having just done this change to my Worlds raw files yesterday.  Because I was fed up of how much stone was lying around the place, seriously.

Have to make it work (it's downloading as I post this_ but Amen for industrious people like you.  I like my stonesense pictures and wanted to have a whirl with .12 finally.

'This is Dolomite Rock'
'It is a basic building and crafting rock'
'It will Melt in Magma'
'It will not melt from being next to Magma'

Basically like that?

Was playing yesterday and it occurred to me it would be vastly easier most of the time if rather than having to move soldiers individually or by groups to patrol locations, you could just designate a Patrol area and say '1 Melee & 2 Ranged Dwarves wanted'.
Then a new Alert status for a squad saying 'Available for Assignments'.

The Available soldiers would then treat these the same as dwarves treat civilian jobs, going to the location, patrolling the zone, and when they got hungry/thirsty to a certain point, interrupting their patrol to go eat/drink.  Thus leaving the job free for another military dwarf to go there.  Or the Dwarf to return after eating if you've not enough soldiers.

This could even go so far as to create structures eventually such as watch towers (increased visual range for spotting approaching thieves), Murder Holes (Specifically set up to shoot through properly to a cave below), and Ambush pits (Covered hole that requires hatch, cloth + channelled square to build that your Melee dwarf leaps out of at 1 range from a target), making for more variety defending your fortress

I can confirm that the rain melting bug still exists.
New world created in the download of .04  Temperate region, Terrifying, Summer, I had my dwarves melting away in the rain, (just as they were finishing building the pump system to try and punch through the aquifer layers).
I was grumpy and hit abandon fortress a bit foolishly though, should have retained the save, my apologies for that.