Glass

Glass is a transparent block used primarily for decoration on houses.

Overview

Glass is made by smelting sand in a furnace. Sunlight can penetrate through glass, making it useful for buildings such as greenhouses and in-door farms, or for use as a view-port. As of 1.8 beta, glass can be naturally found in NPC villages. Glass blocks adjacent to each other are invisible when viewed through glass. Snow does not accumulate on glass blocks, so they are useful in cold biomes, where a player does not want snowy surfaces. Like certain other blocks, such as mycelium, a tool with the silk touch enchantment is required to collect a glass block without breaking it; otherwise, it will drop nothing.

Crafting

Glass Pane x16				Glass Bottle x3
None	None	None		None	None	None
Glass	Glass	Glass		Glass	None	Glass
Glass	Glass	Glass		None	Glass	None

Daylight Sensor
Glass	Glass	Glass
Nether Quartz	Nether Quartz	Nether Quartz
Wooden Slab	Wooden Slab	Wooden Slab

Stained Glass x8				Beacon
Glass	Glass	Glass		Glass	Glass	Glass
Glass	Dye(any)	Glass		Glass	Nether Star	Glass
Glass	Glass	Glass		Obsidian	Obsidian	Obsidian

Trivia

• In the Survival Test development phase, glass could be broken very quickly and would drop a glass block to pick up. The only way to obtain glass at that time was to place them on the map before the world was loaded in the game client.
• When glass is placed over a dropped item, the item is trapped inside the glass, but can be retrieved normally.
• As of update 1.2, torches can be placed on top of glass, but not on the side of the block.
• If glass is being broken, the sky behind it will turn blue, even if there are clouds.
• Glass and other transparent blocks' other sides cannot be seen; if it is looked at from one side, the texture for the other side of the glass isn't visible, even if a player makes a 16x16 area of glass, it will still happen.
• Glass absorbs most of the damage taken from TNT.
• If clouds touch glass, the glass becomes invisible.

Gallery

A gigantic sloped wall of glass made in the DesiredCraft server.

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Utility	Bed • Brewing Stand • Cake • Cauldron • Chest • Shulker Box • Crafting Table • Enchantment Table • Furnace • Jukebox • TNT • Anvil • Blast Furnace • Barrel • Bell • Campfire • Cartography Table • Compost • Fletching Table • Grindstone • Lantern • Lectern • Loom • Smithing Table • Smoker • Stonecutter • Dispenser • Redstone Lamp • Door • Fence Gate • Lever • Note • Piston ( Sticky) • Pressure Plate • Rail ( Powered • Detector • Activator) • Redstone ( Wire • Torch • Repeater • Comparator) • Trapdoor • Trapped Chest • Hopper • Dropper • Daylight Detector • Tripwire Hook • Observer
Plants	Cactus • Dead Bush • Chorus Plant • Flowers • Grass ( Grass • Fern) • Leaves • Lily Pad • Melon • Mushrooms ( Huge)  • Mycelium • Podzol • Nether Grass • Pumpkin • Saplings • Sugar Cane • Vines • Wheat • Log • Corals • Kelp • Sweet Berry Bush • Nether Fungi • Nether Mushrooms
Liquids	Lava • Water
Non-Solid	Fire • Blue Fire • Sign • Torch • Banner
The Nether	Glowstone • Unnamed Light Block • Netherrack • Nether Grass • Nether Brick ( Fence)  • Nether Quartz • Nether Wart • Nether Fungi • Nether Mushrooms • Soul Sand • Unnamed Soul Sand Block • Unnamed Speleothem Block • Magma Block
The End	Dragon Egg • End Stone • Purpur( Purpur Pillar) • Endstone Brick • End Rod • Dragon Head • Ender Crystal
Creative only	Barrier • Structure Block • Jigsaw
Bedrock Edition only	Stonecutter (old) • Nether Reactor
Technical	Piston Arm • Block 36 • Burning Furnace • Glowing Redstone Ore • Off-state Redstone Torch • Active Redstone Repeater • Flowing Water • Flowing Lava • Farmland • Pumpkin Stem • Melon Stem • Block 97 • Portal • End Portal Frame • End Portal
Unused	Locked Chest
Removed	Gear • Dirt Slab • Cyan Flower • Camera(PE)
Unimplemented	Crying Obsidian
Education Edition only	Element Constructor • Compound Creator • Hardened Glass