I always wondered where Mikan gets all their marbles from. Turns out, they're made off-world!

This is by far, the most interesting marble factory to exist in Algodoo/Unity community. You can't deny it unless you see the whole process This actually brings a new theory for me that, high quality marbles don't actually being produced on Earth but rather on other rocky surface. Best bet I can say this takes place on the Moon but one other thing I can speculate, is Planet MIKAN. Would it have also been the place for the whole time? Since other rocky plants (Mercury, Mars, Venus) haven't provide any such resources for marble creations....

I love the visual storytelling the other carts and factory outputs do. After having seen the entire process for the white-based marbles, including the un-dyed one on the right showing the base color, we can infer basically everything about the other factories. And when we see the drastically different patterns and how high the "Factory - ###" goes, we get an idea as to how grand and elaborate the entire facility is.

I want to see a full picture of how large and complex this is (maybe on community posts). This is incredible!

Process of making marbles (or possibly more…): 1. Some ores are mined and collected in a cart. 2. The coloured ores are unloaded outside the factory. 3. The ores are filtered based on its colour upon entry. 4a. The white ores are heated up and molten into magma. 4b. The yellow, magenta and cyan ores are grounded into aqueous form. 5. The molten magma is then cooled by portions to make a cannon-shaped solid. 6. The excess areas of the solid is grinned to become a ball. There you go! The marbles are made! Time to paint it. 7. The colourful solutions mixes up with other solutions to change colours.(or don’t mix at all.) 8. The drones picks up the balls and paint the ball as same as their colours, then sort them in the tubes. 9. The marbles are boxed and packaged by bending and cutting rods. Done with the marbles! Time to deliver them! 10. The package (with red, orange, yellow, lime, cyan, blue, purple, magenta and white) is loaded into a cart. 11. The cart will load more packages coming from other factories. (In this cart, it loaded marbles from factories 1,2,3 and 27.) (The steps of making marbles with other colours are basically the same, just different colours.) (On the floor above, 1 floor of factories are used to make shining colours, the other for glowing colours.) (1 floor below, it is the section for blinking colours.) 12. After loading, the cart is ready to launch! (Hey, it’s also possible to make mikan marbles, including the combinations above, ring marbles, pulse marbles, also mixed marbles! But we don’t cover them now.) 13. Select a planet to deliver, going up, transform into a rocket, and takeoff! Now the marbles will be delivered to different marble racers to race! (and make eliminations :). Have fun!)

MIKAN never fails to amaze us, that was an epic and flabbergasting marble factory!

Really great ending! Wasn't expecting this. Best part for me was 4:16 and 8:20 and what will happen if the marbles go to mars...

Interesting... After the video, I will explain the mechanics. A machine finds minerals in which there are 2 types: white and colorful (cyan, orange, magenta). They will go into a separator in which, separate the minerals, allowing them to go to their individual factories. The white will be smelt for material, and the colorful ores will be crushed to make dyes. The smelted ore will go into a frame and sharpened to make marbles. The marbles go into a color factory, which there are a color mixer there. The 3 colors make the rest of the colors: red, yellow, lime, blue, purple. There are 9 catches, each will go into a dye to dye the marbles, except for the white one just doesn't go into a dye. After that, the marbles go into a package, with each 9 marbles, onto a minecart. A minecart may go into another factory, to collect more marbles. Once all of the factories have gone by, it will go into a rocket to send from MIKAN planet to various planets in the solar system. (The one process above is just one factory, Factory-001, we have 30-ish other factories to explore somewhere down the line) Edit: weird, my notification said that I got heart. Where's my heart?

Wow ok showing an actual mining system is cool as hell. 2:53 Also the fact that you acknowledge that there'd be a bit of extra left from the point where the mold came off and grind it off is so cool.

Another phenomenal show! My autistic son and I were just watching it before he went to school, and he went to school happy and amazed! Thanks again, MIKAN! ☺️

8:14 martians on mars be ordering marbles

That was incredible! I love the way you used the other carts to create a sense of scale with how many other factories there were, and I loved seeing references to other marbles and marble factories within those carts.

I always assumed the colors were mass produced just as indevidual colors but to sell them as packs makes so much sense!

I love how the white drone will wait for other drones before putting another white marble

With every video, we're getting deeper into MIKAN lore and the backstory of marble races

This looks like a decent midgame setup, though I don't think it'll carry you through to the lategame. You'd need to improve throughput, probably by having entire factories dedicated to the common ball types, allowing more efficient bulk processing. The most obvious bottleneck is the dying process; relying on drones to dye each ball individually is _very_ slow, and large batches of one color are much more efficient. In the mid-to-late game, you generally want a large factory dedicated to each of the eight base colors (each supplied by your central ball forming facility), which can then ship their products off to more specific sub-factories for further refinements (darkening, glow, stripes, fusion, etc.). It looks like you took your early-game build and built it up to meet the increased requirements of the mid-game, without actually rebuilding it to work on the scale you're now operating on. Which, okay, is a mistake I also make pretty frequently. But it also looks like you've copied your early-midgame hybrid base with small modifications to fit a variety of purposes, which really doesn't scale well. On a more positive note, your cart network is beautifully constructed, your routing system is clearly _exquisitely_ made, and the hybrid cart/rocket build is frankly brilliant. It's much better than anything I've made, and you've inspired me to step up my game. ... or maybe I play too much Factorio. who knows.

This was one of his best creations It's interesting how marbles are taken to different planets at the end

"Bound for Mercury" got me good.

This is crazy - the Legend of Mikan persists in(?) our entire solar system! The hints to other races and completely alien marbles and size of the factory make this just incredible! :D

Oh, Error in the production? Ooo (look at the top at 6:33, there is a white among the magenta/pink)

6:39 Normal 7:00 Dark 7:06 Light 7:12 Red Brightness 7:15 Blue Brightness 7:22 Lime Brightness 7:25 Shining (Normal Light) 7:30 Shining Blinking 7:39 3 Rainbow, 3 Monochrome, 3 Half Rainbow 7:45 Blinking Black 7:49 Zebra Pattern 7:55 Radial BlueWhite LimeWhite RedWhite, Radial NormalBlack 7:57 Mikan Pattern 7:59 Donut Pattern 8:01 MIKAN MIKAN MIKAN MIKAN 8:03 Moving Zebra Pattern Rainbow 8:14 Moving Zebra Pattern BlueWhite LimeWhite RedWhite, Moving Zebra Pattern NormalBlack

6:18 Bro got the 8 undertale human souls and one monster soul Determenation Bravery Justice Kindness Patience Integrity Perseverance FEAR =) sans

Awesome video as always. I love the artistic concept of marble factory :)

My head canon is that Mikan is a game show host, who kidnaps marbles for his show. Sort of like squid game, but marbles. Then then forces them to compete in deadly games with the promise of freedom. What they don’t know is after each game they get forget about every marble who died, and the dead marbles get recreated here. Also for those of you who wonder what the show is called. I’d imagine it would be called something like “Mikan’s amazingly dangerous gameshow!”

I love the way mikan creates their videos its just so satisfying to watch

2:11 that one white square

This has gotta be the best marble factory I've seen from anyone, the amount of detail and thought put into it is incredible!

The lore grows deeper with these 3rd generation marbles

The amount of implied MIKAN lore here just makes the already incredible video that much better. This factory is clearly on a different rocky body, but which is it? The factory is clearly automated and very efficient, with virtually no waste products. Who created it? What are they doing with so many marbles? Could it be that they just run an incredible number of marble races, or are there alternative uses for marbles? The capsules that turn into rockets have to be made somewhere, too. Are they *also* made of marble-matter? Is it in the same factory? Are they sent back to the factory once their delivery is complete? I feel like we're truly seeing a new MCU: a MIKAN Cinematic Universe!

Apparently the marbles are made in the void 8:20

Delivery at 8:01 on the right side is for the neverending fantastic MIKAN-WORLD. KEEP DOING! ❤🎉 PS: 8:03 really colourful and amazing marbles! (Something went wrong with the order of the planets)

5:37 idk what is happening but really cool! keep up the great work =D

I love the complexity of the mechanisms

4:27 the legend (red) is born!

soooooo.... when are we getting a video with the psychodelic marbles we saw in 8:02?

This is not just a masterpiece. It shows creativity, love and confidence! Amazing work, Mikan !

I was not expecting to see that there were a bunch of factories. This was amazing

4:44 el dron blanco es muy flojo, solo mueve una bola y se va a dormír

A group of many different marbles factories around different star system planets must need a lot of lore that someone can make, and MIKAN is the person that can do it :3 pd: cyan, magenta, and yellow, are the real primary colors for painting and pigments, so the factory used them to get red, green, and blue, the secondary colors of pigments, but primary colors of light

This guy be making Lore around Marbles, just because he can lol. *Amazing*

When I watch all your videos, it's clear that you are genuinely a skilled programmer. You're not just drawing a track and letting the physics engine do the rest. There's a lot of really complex interactions happening here and I think if you ever get tired of making these videos, you are well prepared to be a programmer on almost anything else you choose :)

マーブル工場は宇宙にあったのか……😳

This is how algodo gets marbles, nice❤

The factory must be gigantic, considering the number of different colors and patterns of marbles being manufactured. A tour of the factory floor would no doubt be quite interesting.

By a landslide the coolest in the series yet! Well made mikan, as usual

omg imagine this was an idle game. that would be so fun :O

I like the way that Mikan have a very creative idea about factories. The humanoid factory was very creative too

I just love it when it's a factory thing!

That video describes my math exams😂🎉(VERY GOOD VIDEO)

MIKAN, I have been your biggest fan for YEARS! Every time I feel upset or bored I pop on one of your videos and i feel so positive! Thank you for being such a big part of my childhood!

At the beginning the marble race was relatively not that hard to make, just make a track and the content makes itself. But this? If he made his own music, it would be 100% ALL his work. I'm amazed how he got that good at doing that and I'm glad that I was able to witness that story. Also important: note that there are no ads in between to interrupt. How cool is that?

Impressive as always. Keep up the great work, MIKAN. You're an inspiration to us all.

congrats for 1m subscribers mikan keep the spirit for making video, entertain us all

At first, at 6:50, you're confused why the cart is so empty, and then at 7:00 the reveal happens and the grand scope of things dawns on you! Amazing!!

THAT WAS SO COOL!!! It might not be a marble race, but it’s still quite fun watching the marbles go from raw ores collected from the ground to their final form! Here’s the full process: PRE-PRODUCTION 1. Raw Material Collection 2. Raw Material Delivery 3. Raw Material Sorting 4. Raw Material Refinement (Grey Material Smelting/Colored Material Liquefaction) PRODUCTION 5. Stage 1: Marble Manufacturing (Smelted Material Pouring>Marble Casting>Grinding Excess Material>Finished Blank Marbles) 6. Stage 2: Coloring (CMY Mixing>Secondary Color Creation>Drone-Assisted Dyeing>Color Sorting) 7. Stage 3: Packaging (Packing Marbles In Individual Boxes>Creating Cartons>Putting Boxes Into Cartons>Sending Off For Shipping) SHIPPING 8. Maglev Loading 9. Maglev Transport 10. Loading Into Launch Tubes 11. Final Send-Off

Your creativity never ceases to amaze me, Mikan, this was INCREDIBLE!!!

You put immense work into this and I cant imagine all the planning this short simulation took 😅

“Damnit Carl, we told you to stop ordering marbles, this is getting out of hand!!!” Carl: *Obsessed marble racing noises intensifies*

Yessir! The Epic Factory Back!

I love how the The Marble Factory has evoled with each version

WOW! Words can't describe how phenomenal this whole thing is. Truly a talent; how you get the helicopter things at 4:22 to fly like that is beyond me. This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen in Algodoo. Keep up the astonishing work.

Just from the thumbnail and I can already guess this is gonna be a sweet race. Nice one 👍🏻

Finally, Marble Lore

every new step dropped my jaw just a little bit more, the flex of skill is insane

Super creative! I loved how there were so many references to real-life manufacturing, like with the laser/air blasts separating the blocks by color. Personally, though, I would have loved to see the package parachute down to its destination planet!

This is so cool with the multiple factorys and so much more I don’t know Roblox they need to make these like this

I love all the details! Especially the other carts/rockets passing by, it feels like a huge factory!

I love watching factory simulations soooo much, and you nailed it!

Woah, this is amazing! Marble factory for every marble, basically. The designs are great too! I'm still wondering what you do with the weird random looking rainbow-thing marbles idk what to call it.

Those factories are getting more and more complex. Amazing!

Did someone repared that the "shiny" lime is a reference from 100 stages of elimination 3 (the "shiny" lime was the winner up in UK)

This is how marbles are made in the factory

I live factory builds, so this was awesome for me! I especially loved the transport cart section.😊

Wow! Which planet did you made all of these for your races?

this is absolutely a masterpiece, as always :)

This is some serious sci fi stuff here and I love it

if marbles go to the sun Answer: They turn into black😂😂😂

Nice

I like how when the white drone docks home, it actually stops spinning its propeller. Nice touch.

Wow, a marble factory in an unknown place in the outer space! Amazing!

IDK why but the packacking is hypnotic...

I can name several things a normal factory wouldn’t do (this isn’t taking away from the amazing video, it’s just things I noticed) 0:47: they would keep the door holding the ore (yes, that’s what I call it) open 1:13: 1:they would have redundancy; multiple sorting lasers on each color, just to make sure absolutely nothing gets through 2: again with the doors being closed 2:04: they would have smaller crushing wheels with two wheels on each type of ore to make sure the ore would always be going down 3:42: the pigment mixers would probably be more of a blender design 4:17: instead of drones; they would probably use some sort of conveyor belt system 4:36: they would probably let the marbles through once a full set of colors was created if there’s space, leaving no downtime for the packing mechanism and reducing of a bottle neck 8:10: 1:they would probably keep the launchers on the top floor 2: they would, again, have redundant systems; multiple launchers for each planet 3:They would have earth first and not mars (pointed out to me by yourdone2307)

theyre on their way once again epic video as per usual

ah yes, my favourite geometry dash level marble factory #3 by mikan

I really like factory one and this one was good

actually loved the final part reminds me of some IRL concepts and research happening using a railgun system to propel a rocket into orbit, from which it then flies with its own power this is done cause of the huge issue that getting into orbit is one of the most fuel consuming parts of space flight

Mind blown the entire way through, really impressed! also if you can, can you do a tutorial on how you got the code to have the white material melt and the cyan, magenta, and yellow material get crushed into liquid?

I like that marble factory that was made. I'm so impressed!

Обожаю тему конвейера, а тут целый завод что отсылает мячи на испытания!

We watch this all the time, even when it’s a school day

after 2yrs finally a new version of marble fact.

Now for my explanation: 1) The marbles come for rare materials from our planet so using the latest technology of traction beam, we were able to create identical machinery to take that ore (in case the last fails to), which comes in 4 colours: white, yellow, cyan & magenta 2) The minerals are then sorted by colour with the help of lasers 3) Then the white material melt while being mixed & the coloured ones are crushed in an aqueous state 4) The white mood is then cooled off to take a solid form that's not exactly round so we use a buzzsaw to form them into the ideal shape of marbles 5) The coloured fluids in then mixed to form red, lime, blue, orange & purple. 9 differently coloured drones then pick up the marbles & dump them into the fluid with the same colour with the white drone as an exception & plops them into a tube 6) That's when they all form 1 tube into a magnetic minecart 7) The marbles leave factory-001 to go get more marbles from other factories. We also make dark, light, tints of red, tints of blue, tints of green, glowing, light glowing, blinking, rainbow, blinking to black, changing from the centre, coloured MIKAN, donut/ black centre, normal MIKAN, rainbow fluid, red & white fluid, green & white fluid, blue & white fluid, colour & black fluid etc. 8) Finally the marbles enter a launchpad to your solar system to form a rocket

So creative! Amazing as always!

This looks interesting. Great job :) also why do the premiers need to be at 3am :(

I love this guy! And now I'm sure that I can do that for my friends.

Realmente me enfoque mirando estos vídeos porque a mi nieto (aún niño de 10 años) le gustan mucho, prefiero que vea esto, le llamo mucho la atención, a qué vea otro tipo de videos, además la creatividad que hay en ellos, interesante.

“Let’s ride the mechanism!” The mechanism in question:

It's official, I'm saving this to a new satifying playlist

These marbles are delivering to Mikan for next marble race

wow we got even more lore about how marbles are acquired