I was redesigning my workshop and I saw a Power Coil break a block when the thought hit me: can Power Coils break Mantle? The answer is yes! I used a regular Workbench Power Coil and a Workbench at altitudes 2 and 3 to successfully break many Mantle blocks. You need to use a set up similar to this:
|EM|EM|WK| Altitude 4
|CO|MA|MA| Altitude 3
EM stands for empty space, CO for Power Coil, WK for closest Workbench block to the coil, and MA is for Mantle. Of course, you also cannot place Workbenches outside of a beacon, so you need to plot the area, but the coil will send a current through the Mantle and to the Workbench and break the Mantle block, just like any game block.
Mantle does not drop anything and there seems to be a universal layer of Mantle at altitude 1, so escaping the world does not seem to be possible. I doubt breaking Mantle is useful for anything beyond flattening the ground at the bottom of the world, but it is interesting to know that it is possible.
EDIT: Somebody beat me to this idea >.> I just did a search and Jiivita already has done a video on this. Ignore me :-p
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Nice for people who want to work on a flat surface. I always thought Mantle could be used as a road in an underground settlement, though itās bumpy and all over the place; alas your solution seems viable (if not somewhat painstaking)
Nice find, both you and @Jiivita.
Now if only we could find a way to escape the world. Perhaps weād find a boss on the other side, hmm? A 50 ft totem wielding, fire breathing @james?
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Does mantle regenerate? What happens if you hit it with a regen bomb?
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schasm
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Itād need work first I think. Do you also get that funny sticking bug on it? I get a thing where it can bounce me into itself and sometimes propel me like a warp bump upwards. Or sometimes just a big lag jump. Itās weirdly unlike other blocks, it sticks and traps oddly. (Treacle blocks from Syrup, please!)
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Iāve never noticed this? Perhaps they changed it since I last messed around with it.
Yes to sticky blocks!
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schasm
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Itās worth a look, unlike any other block in the game. I suspect itās not a property of the block but how itās treated by the engine or something. I often get it whilst out mining, in fact I always stick one block above now to avoid unwanted teleport exits. 
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I found out about this from @Chonps back in EA when i was introducing him to power coilsā¦ much like you, his first thought was āwhat else can this break?ā and went strait to mantle lolā¦ this was supposed to be in the video but i had to re-record it and somehow it didnāt make it back in ><
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+1 to Sticky Blocks!
Imagine the possibilities. We have the trampoline blocks soā¦ Maybeā¦
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I had one more idea on using Power Coils to break unbreakable blocks, but I had to run to work as soon as I started this thread. You could potentially use Power Coils to breaks things on plots belonging to other people as well. I mean, if they have anything in the upper corners or the bottom corners of a plot and no plots above or below that plot AND at least 1 empty space for you to plot; then, you could plot that extra plot to place a workbench and then place a Power Coil above or below their plot to get a current that breaks the corner blocks.
EDIT: I guess if they add little beacon buffer zones this will impossible, though.
ctrl-64
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can you even place coils outside your beacon? I know workbenches you canāt, so that would have to be in your plot. I would assume coils work the same
I am not sure. I wish had more time to test it before work :-p
ctrl-64
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ha! I was utterly surprised until I saw the lack of ugly shimmer from the deco blocks 
your graphic design skills are top notch!
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Aridhol
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This was possible before but patched recently
Dulki
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hey thanks xD I had some people fall for it ;D
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