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You can't add new reactions into an existing save without memory hacking, no.

within reasonable limits of time and effort? no. if there were, we would've turned goblins into a whole separate family tree of goblinoids years ago

Okay, so what the hell is up with the [APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE] token?

I tried figuring out if I could use it to alter the order of stuff in the description, but it just seems to indicate a cutoff point where it doesn't get mentioned anymore. What's really throwing me off here is how the lower the integer is, the more extreme the property has to be to get displayed. This here:
[SET_BP_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:NOSE]
[BP_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:LENGTH:25:70:90:100:110:130:200]
[APP_MOD_DESC_RANGE:30:60:90:110:150:190]
[APP_MOD_NOUN:muzzle:SINGULAR]
[APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE:25]
...doesn't display anything between snoot lengths of 29 and 189. What's the pattern here?

So, how many minutes was DFHack stable before a new major DF version was released? 

Just over two weeks, not a bad result at all!

For reference:


Like it says in the comments, it's supposed to be a combination between Myrica rubra and the Myrica gale. A totally reasonable way to go about things, as far as modeling trees and creatures in Dwarf Fortress goes, but this pair is incompatible with all reason.

M.gale (swamp myrtle) is a leafy tree-shrub thing that grows 1-2m tall and grows in bogs in the chillier and more marine parts of Europe. It has a few sorta-herbal uses, but for the most part is just sort of there.
M.rubra (chinese bayberry) is a big honking fruit tree that's been actively cultivated in the slopier bits of China and Japan since time immemorial for its sweet, delicious and precious fruit. It's also called the mountain peach.

But look at the raws above, the combo ended up as great big tropical fruit trees that grow in nearly any climate whatsoever. It sometimes makes up most of a world's (sub)arctic taiga, which by definition should be almost nothing but big hardy conifer trees. Pines and fir.

Its real-life niche of "forests on mountain slopes and valleys at altitudes of 100–1500 m" needs some interpreting, but the point is that it doesn't include the arctic circle. Just limit it to the tropics and it makes much more sense.

Skeletons are just dwarves and elves and humans and goblins with the fleshy layers stripped off and extra tags piled on to let them break the rules of not having tendons or blood or vital organs.

Yeah, it's an oversight with the new character generation.

It doesn't. I'd imagine that there's a custom reaction that takes yellowcake raw material stuff (such as pitchblende, there) and puts out the finished product.