Hi everyone,
I’m sure this has been asked a million times, but my pro recently expired and my username reverted to @member——. Will I ever be able to recover that if I don’t buy Pro again? Follow up, is it just always your username that gets restricted or are there specific ones (aka if I get real pro for a month, change my username on the last day, and then change back, will that work?)
Hi everyone, looking for a clan that is active in CWL and wars in general. I’m a pretty active player, check me out here: #CVQ9899U. Min clan level doesn’t really matter too much to me. I’ve been doing pretty well consistently 3-starring TH18s, although I’m always looking for new ways to improve my attacks!
I decided to go into CS because I loved building things and using technology to express myself creatively was somethign I aspired to do (plus the industry was booming at the time). I just graduated college, and now the industry is down, which is fine, I wasn't really in it for the money anyway. But throughout college, I relied more and more heavily on AI to get work done, because it was the easy way out in a tough situation. Now, I feel like to code, I have to have an LLM there next to me to do even basic work that I do know how to do. I feel like I'm in a weird spot where I do know how to read and write code but I rely so much on AI I'm starting to become code-illiterate, if that makes sense?
I just wanted to know if anyone else has fallen into this cycle and how to break out of it. I do still like creating things, but now I look at things and don't feel responsible for them, because all I did was type in prompt after prompt to tune it to what I wanted. I don't know if this is the right sub for this, so if there's a different sub that better fits this question I'd be happy to move this over there. Thanks everyone!
This is just a personal gripe: every time there’s an important/special catch, I always get screwed over. My only Rayquaza (the new one)? 2 stars, almost the minimum. Kubfu? Almost the minimum. Mythicals? Not one 3 star. I’m just so annoyed with my luck with these encounters. I’ve been playing since ‘16 and only a couple hundos, no shundos ofc. That’s all! :)
Important: Before we start, this idea is not originally mine. I read u/The-Real-Radar's post and wanted to make the idea more realistic and down-to-earth (pun intended). I went to school with aspirations of being a game designer so if this isn't decent I'm screwed lol. All of this to say go check their post out if you like what you see here.
The Mantle is essentially a third underground layer under the stone and deepslate layers. The entirety of the layer is the "Mantle" biome, which is a hot, hard-to-navigate biome that serves as an intermediary between the Overworld and Nether. The words layer and biome will be used interchangeably here.
This would require another alteration to the world height, with the new bottom being -128, and the Mantle taking up 50-60 blocks of height. Existing blocks present in the Mantle would be magma blocks, lava, and bedrock at the bottom, with other existing blocks making up structures in the biome.
The majority of the Mantle is solid Nickel, which is one of the only blocks to be affected by temperature. That is, in warm biomes (Mantle, Nether, Desert, etc.) It glows a reddish silver and is hot to the touch. In cold biomes (Snowy Plains, Ice Spikes, etc.), Nickel will become bluish and is extremely cold. Standing on Nickel in hot or cold biomes will give a powder snow-like effect, where the player's hearts will freeze/burn and damage the player after a certain time. The damage can be negated in the usual ways: Frost Walker boots for burning, and leather boots for freezing.
Note: In this update, Magma blocks will be changed to reflect the behavior of Powder Snow, where the player doesn't get damaged immediately but can slowly sink into the block if not wearing Frost Walker.
Nickel can be waxed to maintain its temperature in any biome, meaning you can build with hot, cold, or temperate Nickel anywhere in the world. Waxed Nickel will not deal damage. You cannot scrape wax off of Nickel, so once it is waxed, it will be in that state indefinitely.
Nickel can also be cut and polished using a stonecutter. Cut Nickel introduces ridges on all sides of the block. Polished Nickel lightens a bit in color and gains a border and sheen on all sides. Hot and Cold Nickel is unable to be altered. Nickel, Cut Nickel, and Polished Nickel will all contain slab/stair variants.
There is a new ore that can be found exclusively in the Mantle biome: Garnet. Garnet Ore is only found inside of Nickel and is dark red in color. It drops 1 Garnet Gem when mined (can be increased with Fortune), and 9 Garnet Gems create a Block of Garnet, which is purely for storage and decorative. Garnet Gems can also be used as an Armor Trim, with a deep red look, but a small magenta tint to differentiate it from redstone.
Have you ever stained your glass, terracotta, or any other one-way dyeable material only to realize you made way too much and want to strip the dye off of it? Well now with the Garnet Shears, you can! The crafting recipe for Garnet Shears is two Garnet Gems placed diagonally in a crafting grid. Since Garnet is so sharp and often used for stripping paint, it only makes sense that it can strip dye as well.
Right-clicking on any dyed block with Garnet Shears restores the block to its default state. Stained Glass, Terracotta and Shulker Boxes will return to their default colors. Wool, Concrete/Concrete Powder, Banners, and Carpet default to their white variants. Nothing happens when Garnet Shears are used on the white variants of the blocks without a base color. 1 dye of the color being removed is extracted for the player (can be increased to 3 with Fortune, which Shears can now receive).
The Garnet Shears also offers higher durability and speed on shears, and breaks wool/glassy blocks (Glass, Glowstone, Beacons) faster than any other tool.
Another use of garnet is water filtration, and it also provides easier water usage in Minecraft! Crafting a Garnet Bottle costs 3 Garnet Gems in the conventional bottle formation. A Garnet Bottle, when filled with water, can be used in a few crafting recipes. Surrounding a filled Garnet Bottle with Dirt in a crafting table makes 8 Mud, and 8 of any one color of Powdered Concrete creates 8 of the corresponding Concrete variant. This makes it much easier to get these variants without manually placing and breaking each block. The bottle is not consumed in the crafting recipe, but it is left empty. It cannot hold any potions and therefore cannot be used for brewing.
The mantle is very hard to traverse, and in addition to being filled with heat-reactive Nickel, there are also not many open pockets, so traversal requires lots of mining.
That being said, the mantle is home to a few structures:
Diamond Geodes will be rare structures/formations found in the Mantle. The outer casing of the geode is simply Blocks of Coal, followed by an inner layer of Calcite, and finally, the Diamond interior. The main block found on the inside are Compressed Diamonds. These blocks are cosmetic-only and can also be crafted by placing 4 diamonds in a 2x2 square in a crafting grid. They cannot be reversed into 4 diamonds.
The Diamond Cluster, when broken, nets 1 diamond unless fully grown, in which case it nets 1-3. Diamond clusters will not regrow once mined (there is no Budding Amethyst equivalent), but can be mined with a Silk Touch pickaxe to obtain the actual cluster.
The second structure is the Abandoned Drill Site. When you find a pocket of air while mining through the Mantle, chances are an Abandoned Drill Site is nearby. Each air pocket of the mantle (whether there is a Drill Site there or not) will have temperate nickel due to the air pocket cooling it enough to change the state. An abandoned drill site features a broken-down drill machine, with a blackstone drill and tires, a copper body of various oxidation levels, and a glass window. Random blocks will be missing from the drills, and whole parts of the drill may be cut off by nickel.
There are two chests within the Abandoned Drill Site. One chest will be on the outside of the drill, and will contain basic treasure loot (Name tags, saddles, hostile mob drops, etc.) as well as a chance for enchanted pickaxes of any material, and boots of any material with Frost Walker I or II.
The second chest is inside the drill structure. It will contain better loot, like Iron/Gold Ingots, Diamonds, Emeralds, Garnet Gems, chances at Frost Walker I/II books, and a new tool: The Hand Drill.
The Hand Drill is a tool only obtainable through the Abandoned Drill Site. It's main purpose is to help mine through the Mantle, as drilling through Minecraft's open caves isn't as necessary anymore. However, the drill can be used at any level. The drill head is supposedly made of Garnet Gems.
When a block is mined with the Hand Drill, a 3x3 area on two of the X/Y/Z axes (depending on which side of the block is mined/which direction the player is facing). The speed it takes for the drill to mine is 2x longer than the mine speed of a block with an Iron Pickaxe, but mines 9 blocks in total.
The drill takes 3 durability points for each mine, and has a durability in between iron and diamond tools. It can, however, be re-powered from anywhere by right clicking while there is Redstone dust in your inventory. Each piece of Redstone will recharge it ~1.5%, meaning that a 64 Redstone dust will get you from 0-100%.
The Hand Drill can also be enchanted with Mending, Unbreaking, Efficiency, and Fortune/Silk Touch (mutually exclusive). Fortune applies to every block in the 3x3 square mined, but the enchantment is spread across eligible blocks (e.g. if a drill has Fortune III but there are 2 diamond ore and an iron ore in the 3x3 radius, each ore would be mined as if the drill had Fortune I). Enchanting Hand Drills doubles the amount of Redstone needed to recharge (each individual piece charges ~.75% durability).
No mobs can stand the heat down in the Mantle, and there isn't much spawning space for them anyway. No mob, that is, except for the Redstone Bug. This mob made its debut in the Minecraft 2.0 April Fools update (which also showed off Blocks of Coal and Stained Glass, by the way). In this update, it serves as the sole mob in the Mantle, only naturally spawning in Abandoned Drill Sites. Like Silverfish, these mobs can hide in blocks and attack when the block is mined, or attack when in the open.
The Redstone Bug drops 1-3 redstone dust when killed. This is especially helpful for recharging the Hand Drill when down in the Mantle, where XP is hard to come by and no redstone naturally spawns.
One unique quirk of the Redstone Bug is that it emits a weak redstone signal wherever it goes, so if one passes over a redstone wire, it will light it up in place with a redstone signal of 1. The more Redstone Bugs over a wire, the higher the signal. This could make for some interesting dynamically moving redstone systems that weren't possible before.
The Mantle serves as a midgame excursion to explore below deepslate. It acts as a "blank canvas" of sorts, being mostly filled in aside from the occasional air pocket, and fixes quality-of-life issues such as un-dyeing colored items and easier mud and concrete crafting.
Thank you all for reading, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you all think (especially u/Hazearil, who walked through the post I was inspired from with their criticisms lol). Anyway, thanks again for listening to me ramble on!
Hey everyone,
I was wondering if there was a way in 2k26 to get the Day 1 rosters, as I would like to start this past season with the opening tipoff rosters (e.g., McCain still in Philly, Trae in ATL, base ratings). I see some stuff from past years of 2k just saying to download a roster, but I’m on Switch 2 so I only have those rosters available, in which I can’t find a Day 1 roster and the rosters on there are largely hard to navigate. Is 2k26 the same way? I find it weird that you can play with a pre-draft 2025 roster, but the start from reg. season doesn’t default to the opening tipoff rosters. Would appreciate any help!
Per my previous post on this sub, I managed to get my usb-c flash drive out of the case. I found that the usb port piece was totally pulled from the motherboard, the pads were ripped off on the sides, and there is some pin damage. I tried the slim chance of it being a “tape will fix it” problem, and secured it best I could, but no luck. I was wondering what next steps would be; the data isn’t that important so it’s not really worth spending money to get back but would be nice to have a one-time fix to get that all off the drive before I toss it. Thanks!
Hi everyone! The actual plug part of my USB-C drive popped out of the socket. I tried lightly pulling on it but it won’t come completely out, so I don’t think it’s disconnected from anything. However, it won’t register to connect to anything. I want to open it up to see what’s up, but I can’t find out how. Any tips?
