The Marble Factory #3

Enjoy watching the process of making marbles.
There is no winner, unlike in typical videos.

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[shadowknight]

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

[propork]

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

[bluesbest]

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.

[nightskymatchcards]

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?

[MegaWhiteYT]

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

[thelternative]

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....

[LAMCHAKFUNG]

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!)

[parchmentengineer]

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.

[marblesofraven]

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...

[RMGK]

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! ☺️

[michaels.]

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!

[stalexeve]

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

[ywfyyys]

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

[TheAdvertisement]

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.

[toricon]

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.

[Alan]

That's great if you used printing colors to mix any primary colors. (Yellow plus magenta equals red, yellow plus cyan equals green and cyan plus magenta equals blue.)

[EpikDaBoii]

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

[MaxMeat]

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

[najrenchelf]

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

[barneytrouble]

8:14


martians on mars be ordering marbles