This Month in Marble Blast - February 2026

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The initial rush of the new year settled in, and attention turned inward. A revived Valentine’s event, world record routes continuing to spiral into chaos, and the unexpected resurfacing of nearly 20-year-old Marble Blast history defined the year’s shortest month. Here’s how it unfolded.

 

The Heart Vault

Starting with a rather sweet highlight of the month, the Valentine’s Day-themed event from 11 years ago made a comeback in a new evolution as the Heart Vault.

 

Participants confirmed their involvement via Discord DM, and each person was then randomly assigned two other participants to pay a compliment to on the forums thread. Posts were hidden until everyone had submitted theirs, and then they were all revealed simultaneously.

 

The turnout was just spectacular! Reading all the kind words at once was such an uplifting rush—26 participants was a thrilling turnout, and everyone received a lovely ❤️ heart flair for taking part.

 

Here are some personal favorites looking ahead to the coming year:

  • “Kalle29, you have a very pleasant voice. I can happily tune out every word you're saying and just enjoy its resonant tone.” - NF

  • “Icarus, you crazy bastard. You are one of the funniest dudes I've ever met. The things you have to say sometimes actually have me cackling at my computer screen.” - Endy

  • “[Connie,] I know the projects have become a bit of a meme but the truth is with how draining everything in life is it can be hard to get past the activation energy required to even start something. That's a quality to be proud of, as well as the fact that you'll often be willing to help others.” - ShadowVisions

  • “SummerArmy's levels are... just completely out of this world. It feels like a totally different game when you're playing them, and it's a really fucking cool experience seeing what new ideas he comes up with to build levels around.” - Yoshicraft224

  • “Dearester Nature Freak,
    Roses are red, numerical displays are segmented, if we shared a room together, I would leave pregnanted.”     - Jojo

  • “Eguy, oh Eguy, where do I begin?
    I cannot keep my love for you hidden within.
    If Mastering the Marble is a place to compare,
    All I can do now is sit there and stare.
    For you, oh Eguy, so awesome in wonder,
    I dream about you as I fall into slumber.”     - August

 

Customs Roll Call

January was a strong start for Customs Roll Call, and February saw even more players getting involved.

 

If you happened to miss last month’s explanation, 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 February! March’s levels are found at the end of the post.

 

 

New Custom Levels

February was slightly quieter than January on the level building front. HappyTreeX1 and Hyran continued sharpening their Blender skills, Powerjohn25 released his first level in nearly a year, and Malaren (formerly MBCollector672) uploaded his half-mod, half-custom level pack from nine years ago: Marble Blast Nostalgia.

 

New World Records

Still doing what we do best! February also saw two videos posted on the Marble Blast Community channel.

 

August continues to find crazy new ways to break levels, this time dismantling “Dangerous Development”. The first half mirrors the previous world record path, but everything goes off the rails when he takes advantage of the Nest Egg route instead—a couple of wall hits and careful jumps later, and he’s on the moving platform behind where the player is supposed to be. As if that weren’t enough, there just happens to be a rotated platform next at the end that redirects him to the finish. Serious plot armor.

 

Eguy made his solo debut on the community channel with a three-second improvement on “Skill Zone”, drastically changing the beginning of the path with a flashy use of the line of Super Speeds and a beautiful wall hit to grab the high gems. The real kicker, though, was combining a crafty edge hit and a Super Speed to snag the gem in the hole, saving time on the Super Jump.

 

There were enough records this month that listing all of them out—even excluding improvements—would make for an overwhelming list. Going forward, only the more notable improvements will be included. Each entry also lists the record at the start of the month, so it will not take multiple improvements (by the same person or multiple people) into account.

 

Marble Blast Platinum:

  • Wall Master – 24.180 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 24.665 (Powerjohn25)

  • Skill Zone – 31.604 (Eguy) – prev. 34.714 (Powerjohn25)

PlatinumQuest:

  • Deep Space Morphway – 51.952 (August) – prev. 53.483 (Mystrox)

  • Dangerous Development – 22.233 (August) – prev. 28.422 (August)

  • Treacherous Pits – 6.551 (Jog) – prev. 6.563 (bobirika12)

  • Puzzle 5 - Double Maze – 11.206 (August) – prev. 16.695 (Battlecube314)

  • Perseverance – 1:11.069 (August) – prev. 1:18.883 (August)

Custom Levels:

  • Catwalk Bridges – 41.855 (August) – prev. 45.957 (Powerjohn25)

  • Trampled – 24.888 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 27.638 (Eclipsia)

Easter Egg records also continued to pour in. m2k eased off slightly, now claiming just over half of the 140+ new records, while Charlix stepped up his game to over 30 of his own. Charlix’s last seven consecutive Easter Egg records have been on “Moving Platform Master Course”, currently boasting a 3:29.548—down from the previous 7:07.088 by Powerjohn25.

 

A Blast from the Past

Completely out of the blue, old-timer Moshe appeared in the live premiere chat of HappyTreeX1’s “Marble Blast Random Levels 120”. After ten years of inactivity, it turns out he’s been quietly floating around the Marble Blast space, checking out some recent custom levels and training the next generation of elite marblers.

 

As the creator of Marble Blast Platinum’s infamous, but charmingly unforgettable “Morph”, he shared this gem from October 2007 while the level was still a work in progress.

 

 

He also shared some early versions of “Camp”, “Camp 2”, and the unreleased “Camp 3” ,which eventually became the PlatinumQuest level “Musing”.

 

 

On a similarly nostalgic note, DoxtonPink’s search for the original “level editor” versions of MBP levels—before they were replicated in QuArK—finally paid off. RandomityGuy acquired the files after some digging by Matan, and the levels have been uploaded to Marbleland. 

 

Multiplayer Locked and Loaded

A correction from January’s newsletter: the 2026 Winter Warm Up will take place in March, not February.

 

The event starts on Saturday, March 7, with a solo pre-seed round running during the previous week, just like last year’s Summer Premier. 

 

Additionally, ShadowVisions released HuntBot, a Discord bot designed for Gem Hunt play—both casual and competitive—to record scores, randomly select maps, and track stats. A further update added 2v2 support, a winrate-based leaderboard, and a ladder challenge system allowing players to challenge opponents ranked above them.

 

Miscellaneous

Malaren released a tool that allows .mis files to be imported directly into Blender, all interiors and objects included and positioned as expected. Follow-up updates added linking to the PlatinumQuest development repository, integration with Marbleland, and support for Go’way and daniel741852’s marbleBlastToolkit.

 

a13069’s mod, Marble Blast Synergy, was updated to version 0.6.0, adding 25 levels—10 tutorial and 15 advanced—bringing the total to nearly 100.

 

The aforementioned “Marble Blast Random Levels 120” is HappyTreeX1’s latest entry to the series running for over seven years now, a 96-level mega-compilation that took over eight months to produce. Over 40 minutes of speedrunning entertainment!


Marbleland received a major update introducing the Curator role (implemented by Keppy). Curators can upvote and downvote levels to help manage spam and low-quality uploads. Levels with a curation score below -1 are hidden from the home page and the search results (and eventually downstream platforms like PlatinumQuest). The default filter is set to “Relevant”, but all levels can be viewed by switching to “All”.

 

March Preview

That wraps up February!

 

As March is now underway, the Winter Warm-Up pre-seed round has just begun. PlatinumQuest 2.12 is also on the horizon and will include the new maps being trials during competition.

 

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

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