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Marble Blast - PlatinumQuest Pathfinding 2


 

August surprised with the "unlikely" sequel to his original PlatinumQuest Pathfinding video from over eight years ago. Some levels needed "additional breaking"... and still, he blows expectations out of the water. 

This Month in Marble Blast: May 2026

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May’s This Month in Marble Blast entry is fashionably late—your dear writer has been busy preparing to graduate from university and went on a semi-spontaneous camping trip for a weekend. Look at what happens when the weather gets nice.

 

PlatinumQuest 2.13.0

A much-deserved update to Marbleland was released with PlatinumQuest 2.13.0, revamping the custom level browser into a grid-style menu, and amassing 200 pages of levels!

 

 

Besides the new look, many of the features that have been available on the Marbleland website are now integrated into PlatinumQuest as well! Click on a creator’s username to browse the rest of their levels, leave comments and give loves to individual levels, and even register or log into Marbleland accounts.

 

 

If you want all the details, check out the changelog here!

 

Customs Roll Call

Powerjohn25 took August’s place this time around in claiming four of the twelve levels for May’s entry of Customs Roll Call, while charlemaniac makes his series debut.

 

If you still happen to be unfamiliar with this event, Customs Roll Call is a year-long speedrunning event where twelve levels are announced at the beginning of every month. Players spend the month grinding for the best times, which are then compiled into a video released with the next group of levels.

 

Here is the video for May! June's levels are found at the end of the post.

 

 

Custom Levels

May was a month for long-time returning or completely new faces releasing levels! RandomityGuy and Semick each had new custom uploads for the first time since 2023, and… is that Stormson??


Meanwhile, while not releasing anything in a pack, HappyTreeX1 found a cool niche in several levels he’s released recently, combining pairs of Marble Blast Gold levels in some cases or simply remaking one in his own style. “Dive of Faith” is pretty obvious from the name, as is “Whirling Gauntlet”. Meanwhile, “Law of the Jungle” is a neat take on the perilous “Survival of the Fittest”.

 

Speedrunning

May saw a small step up in the speedrunning scene! Powerjohn25 continues to boast the majority of the new best times, being one of the very few active marblers only interested in singleplayer gameplay and not touching competitive Gem Hunt at all. What the list doesn’t show is the 12 consecutive new records Mushu (formerly Booster) set on “Hug the Wall”... but it does show off the nearly eight seconds of improvement. Crazy, these days.

 

Marble Blast Platinum:

  • Crash Course – 5.739 (Mystrox) – prev. 5.989 (Powerjohn25)

  • Ring Stunts – 22.306 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 22.514 (Xedron)

  • Hug the Wall – 16.960 (Mushu) – prev. 24.727 (Powerjohn25)

  • Platformer – 11.727 (Mushu) – prev. 12.055 (Powerjohn25)

Marble Blast Ultra:

  • Gem Crossroads – 19.532 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 19.627 (Battlecube314)

PlatinumQuest:

  • Training Wheels – 16.947 (Charlix) – prev. 17.045 (Charlix)

  • Platinum Construction Co. – 222 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 217 (Powerjohn25)

  • Corner Conquest – 47.837 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 47.883 (Mazik)

Custom Levels:

  • Six Fold Race – 32.241 (Mystrox) – prev. 32.890 (August)

  • Deeply Relaxed – 23.220 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 23.389 (August)

  • Path o’ Petals – 17.504 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 20.864 (August)

 

Staff Changes

Huge congratulations are in store for our beloved ShadowVisions, who has been a boundless force in the multiplayer scene: hosting the past six tournaments since the 2025 Winter Warm-Up, creating the Hunt Bot, hours of casting and video content—it would be somewhat of an understatement to say he has revitalized the presence of Gem Hunt in the Marble Blast space in only about a year and a half, all while being a widely-praised role model in the community simply as a person. It is a pleasure for him to be the newest addition to the staff!

 

However, life always finds a way to retain some balance, as Mazik resigned from his staff position while he prioritizes his personal wellbeing. Alongside his announcement came a nearly 60-page essay on Gem Hunt luck and an hour-long ninth entry to his “Satisfying Runs” series. All love and appreciation for his time in the community.

 

Multiplayer

The 2026 Summer Premier is just around the corner! Firstly, “Tilo”, “Apex”, “Narrows”, and “Promontory” were selected as the maps for the Pre-Seed Round—two weeks have been given to submit scores, and the first round of matches will commence on June 15th.

 

Secondly, based on the current turnout for the tournament, a few changes have been made to the format:

  • The Contender Division has been split into two: The Contender Division and the Challenger Division. The former will feature the eight returning qualified players from the 2025 Summer Premier and 2026 Winter Warm-Up; the latter will feature the top 8 from the 2026 Summer Premier’s Pre-Seed Round who aren’t already qualified for the Contender Division. The Open Division remains unchanged.

  • With the reduced size of the divisions, the regular season will switch from the usual Swiss Rounds format to a Round Robin style, specifically for the Contender and Challenger Divisions. This means everyone will play everyone else in their division once, allowing for knowing who players’ future opponents will be, luck of matchup draws, and the flexibility of scheduling matches over the entire four weeks of the regular season. Once again, the Open Division remains unchanged, retaining the familiar Swiss format.

Finally, co-host Jean has asked for donations to help fund the dedicated multiplayer servers that practically make these tournaments even happen in the first place. “Hillsboro” (US West), “Ashburn” (US East), and “Nuremberg” (Western Europe) have been ever-present in the Gem Hunt scene for months now, and a server based in Singapore is hoped to be reintroduced during the Summer Premier. Only if you are able to afford to pitch in, any help is worthwhile! Otherwise, your presence and enthusiasm for mega marbles is more than enough.

 

June Preview

That wraps up May!

 

This is what happens when an entire third of the month has gone by before posting a newsletter entry: a lot has already happened in June so far! But those will still be saved for the next article, which will surely be more timely when July rolls around. In the meantime, don’t miss the Marble Blast Community’s biggest annual event that starts in a few days. Additionally, Happy Pride Month to those who celebrate, and be sure not to miss the FIFA World Cup that just began!

 

And of course, the next set of levels for Customs Roll Call:

 

This Month in Marble Blast: April 2026

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Spring is off to a mellow start—the sun coming out again in the Northern Hemisphere is, strangely, convincing people to go outside and touch grass. Here's an example.

 

Customs Roll Call

Fittingly, April’s entry of Customs Roll Call features a dozen levels that lean into said outdoors. August prefers to keep up the illusion otherwise, claiming a third of the catalogue for this month’s video.

 

If you still happen to be unfamiliar with this event, Customs Roll Call is a year-long speedrunning event where twelve levels are announced at the beginning of every month. Players spend the month grinding for the best times, which are then compiled into a video released with the next group of levels.

 

Here is the video for April! May’s levels are found at the end of the post.

 

 

Custom Levels

April continues a relatively easy-going year of level building, but there will always be a few standouts! Icarus released the sequel level inspired by a LeBron meme seven years after the original, Eguy released a wild first Blender creation, and Jaxx made an apology for “Icy Tightrope Battlecube Finale”.


HappyTreeX1 followed in Connie’s footsteps and released a pack of his own, “HTX’s Stylized Level Pack”, a set of 24 Blender-made levels featuring some tutorial-style courses, his signature swirly pipes, and raw-platforming challenges that he’s become known for.

 

Speedrunning

The high-level singleplayer scene remains relatively quieter compared to earlier months—earlier years, even—the community channel didn’t see any new uploads after the last Customs Roll Call entry, and all of a sudden, the number of new world records achieved this month took a drastic drop to… seven levels. That includes both standard singleplayer and Easter Eggs.

 

Marble Blast Gold:

  • Marbletris – 4.487 (HappyTreeX1) – prev. 4.514 (HappyTreeX1)

Marble Blast Platinum:

  • Astroflight – 15.200 (August) – prev. 15.255 (berserk)

  • Winding Steps – 10.624 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 12.393 (Powerjohn25)

  • Morph – 15.606 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 15.667 (Powerjohn)

PlatinumQuest:

  • Deep Space Morphway – 4.346 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 4.387 (Xedron)

  • Terrace Tundra – 6.515 (Jog) – prev. 6.551 (Powerjohn25)

And remarkably, not a single Easter Egg record in April. m2k seems to have gone back into hibernation. Someone give Stormson a call.

 

FFA Palooza

Frostfire debuted the FFA Palooza on April 19th, another single-day Gem Hunt event aimed at more casual play compared to the annual winter or summer competitions, and the first to feature matches with more than two players since the 1v1(v1) tournament in 2014. Every match was a free-for-all in groups of four players, spread across two different phases of the tournament, the Main Schedule and the Knockout Rounds.

 

The Main Schedule consisted of five rounds of two-game matches, where all 16 participants faced every other opponent exactly once. Players earned five, three, two, or one point depending on their placement at the end of each game, meaning up to 10 points would be attainable each round and up to 50 points in total. In the event two players tying in a single game, they would share the total points available from their placements.

 

ShadowVisions led the standings at the end of the Main Schedule, with 47 points after four perfect rounds and only dropping points to Frostfire and a 1st-place tie with Eguy in Round 4. Connie cemented her first-ever finals appearance by securing second place with 44 points, Frostfire and ShadowVisions the only players to score more in any games with her. Ggjakub had to drop out of the tournament last-minute, so one match in each round featured only three players where points were awarded for 1st-3rd place as usual.

 

The Knockout Rounds began with the four players at the bottom of the standings after the Main Schedule: serjG, A-Game, Malaren, and Kalle—Wilchz finished third-to-last, but forfeited out of the tournament following Round 4. The top two players after one game played the next two players up the standing in the following game. The system repeated until four players remained, who then continued under the same 5-3-2-1 scoring system until a player won a game outright after earning nine points and entering “check”.

 

Through the first three rounds, the two added players advanced every time and bowed out in the following round. However, this streak was broken by Eguy, who not only survived Round 4 but Round 5 as well, triumphing over MBOUltimate and Frostfire to make the finals. Icarus, who finished fourth after the Main Schedule and earned only three points after the first two games of the final, capitalized in Game 5 on “All Angles” to take home his first-ever tournament victory. ShadowVisions, despite a perfect start, couldn’t capitalize and even finished with more points than Icarus.

 

Miscellaneous

Jean and ShadowVisions announced the 2026 Summer Premier, which will feature a new format with the Contender and Open Divisions during the Swiss Rounds.

 

Following March’s trend, another Connections puzzle from your writer, this time themed around Marble Blast Gold levels.

“Somewhere Else” by Nockess

 

May Preview

That wraps up April!

 

Marble Blast Gold celebrates its 23rd birthday on May 9th, and Yoshicraft224 hosts the Marble Blast Gold Anniversary Event yet again, this time a two-part celebration with a RTA Race taking place the day after the usual Co-op Run. However, as of the time of publishing, both events have already happened, as they were planned a week earlier so as not to interfere with Mother’s Day.

 

And of course, the next set of levels for Customs Roll Call:

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