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Skin artists can now choose whether to disable downloads on per skin basis. Why? Because some artists want to share their personal skins, some want to share commissions, and some just want credit and more control over how their work gets used elsewhere.

When you upload or edit a skin (or mob skin), you'll find a new "Allow public downloads" toggle. Turn it off and:

• The download button disappears from the page
• The direct download link is blocked, even if someone has it bookmarked
• Your skin still shows up fully in listings, your profile, and search. It's just view-only

This is opt-in and only affects new uploads or skins you edit. Nothing changes for your existing downloadable content unless you flip the switch yourself.

Artists please note that this feature discourages casual downloads but cannot guarentee complete protection of your work. Hoping to see some high quality inspirational skins that would otherwise never see the light of PMC!

Walk into any store and ask someone what day it is. They'll most likely only give the day of the month/week, so then ask what year it is. After the very confused person tells you the year, throw your hands in the air and yell "IT WORKED!!" then run outside.

The TSA line was FOUR HOURS LONG I’m screaming internally

Hello everyone! I've been chipping away at making this Minecraft Skin Commission Guide! It's available on multiple platforms c:

Planet Minecraft
r/minecraftskins Wiki
Google Docs

I am also looking for feedback on tutorials and guides! As well as sharing some on my brand new Discord server. Suggestions for new content welcome as well. I encourage to direct everything to my Google Form since I don't check PMC as much

Bloop, a new galaxy just popped into existence... a Sandbox Galaxy

👏✨ WOA ✨👏

simply said, this was made possible by: you, my dear people,
and i can only say, wow what an achievement,
i am truly grateful for it all,
thank you all!

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We are rolling out the brand-new Redemption Pool & Star Queue system, but since this information is being released later than we would like during Week 2, we want to give everyone a fair chance to participate.

Because of this, we are extending the Week 2 deadline. For those in the USA, this now falls on Thanksgiving day. Our hope is that you are already nearly finished with your skin anyway and this will not conflict with holiday plans. If it does, please inform the SSPBL team as soon as possible!!!

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We’re excited to officially launch SSPBL.org, a new website for organizing and presenting SSPBL in a clearer, more structured way. Made by our very own Zitzabis.

This group page will stay active, but the website gives players and organizers a much easier way to follow the season.
Instead of digging through wall posts and threads, everything is now neatly collected in one place.

Here’s what the site offers:

• A clean timeline of the entire season
• Easy-to-read matchup pages with direct links to polls
• A visible section showing active polls so you don't miss one
• Auto-updating bracket visuals for each round
• An interactive bracket that allows you to click names to see their skins and poll threads

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⭐ The Redemption Pool & Star Queue

The biggest addition made possible by the website is a new redemption system that encourages consistency and keeps more players involved each week.

• Submit a skin every week to stay eligible!
  
• You never know when you might get added to the redemption pool. To secure a chance to rejoin the bracket, we encourage you to keep making skins every week!
  (This is optional. If you are done for the season, that's ok.)
  
  
• Redemption Pool = close losses from the previous week.
• Submitting a skin while in the Pool can earn you stars.
  
  
• Star Queue = a priority line based on how many stars you’ve earned.
• Skipping a week removes you from the Star Queue and resets your stars.
  
  
• Redemption Pool resets weekly; stars only reset if you skip.

This system rewards reliability, gives more players a chance to step in as replacements, and adds a fun new layer of strategy to the season.

Those who earned stars but we didn't need them as a replacement, will still get honorable mentions at the end of the season.

Redemption lists and star queue information is all displayed on the website!

Full explanation and strategy guide:
https://sspbl.org/guide#strategy-guide

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SSPBL classic 1 week 1 is now live!

Thank you everyone for entering our preliminary jam, we got 61 contestants locked and loaded for a full season of SSPBL Classic 1! The week 1 match-ups can be found on the SSPBL group profile together with the palette for the week. We will generate the full bracket during week 1. Note that we have generated the match-ups through a random sampler. 3 participants will not have match-ups for week 1, but we still require they make a skin to make it to week 2.

I will also notify a few people who used colours that deviated a bit too much from the preliminary palette in their preliminary skin - we figure these are incidental/accidental so no one is dq'ed out of the preliminaries.

As for the palette; for week 1, we want to take you back to one of the original PBL palette tropes that I call the "two-paths" palette. The first season of PBL I ever entered used this palette scheme week 1 and I feel it always makes for great fun.

For week 1 I also want to welcome a new member of the SSPBL team. Two-time winner wqtermxlon is joining the team and has already contributed to palette testing for this week. Please welcome them to the team!

Good luck to everyone!

Week 1 palette:


Contestants participating in week 1:
Fatcqt BlueBoyBuilds inzanely Auri Exentrik bloomng FabryFF Way000 Winters_Bane MrJok1r Momu Caeleana MewLee Wildcard_Gamer anonpmc5913017 olarasy Zayleia Paktt SillyCookies1Rox Juillyoom Normin Bureine Hightechik Stormesials GalaxyCat24 -Lunatique Jesse_mink GingerPie sqwil Panda_ThatOnePurpleGuylol olarcyzm Zomphey Pnifey kindabland philbertman42 wacqw Tbrooks202 Swanko shizotoaster Malachai Le Moon TheGuyAcrossSpace jacyx Kalyambusik GuyFromMars Knightsundere ricewater PureNerd anonpmc5951925 VirusCott Ezio caidencestudio Reblok MaltyOtter Narutod PlagueDoktor kickonly metroidlove cloudkitty Nah