Hey, 7 months late, but as far as I'm aware the mod has never broken and doesn't require updates?
Hi! It would be great if you could update the mod to use my Character mod helper. When I've sent you the compatibility code for minime that you've used in the last version, I was just starting. While it's still working, I've improved the procedure for creating and overwriting characters in the meantime. For example, changes to the main character (e.g. building reach or inventory size) by another mod are now propagated to the new characters if a character selector mod is active, and won't be overwritten by the new characters if no selector mod is available.
Basically, in data.lua you'd put the properties you need into a table and then call a function from the helper mod to create your character, and you'd call another function in data-final-fixes.lua that will take care of copying from or to the default character. The mod contains detailed documentation that should be easy to follow.