How do you get Glass in Minecraft?

Glass is obtained through smelting. It is not craftable, but it is an ingredient in 20 recipes.

How do you cook Glass?

Heat is all Glass asks for: Sand and Red Sand go in a furnace and come back out. It needs 10 seconds in the furnace. It pays 0.1 experience each time, 6.4 for the whole 64.

How many Glass can you stack?

Glass at 64 a slot, and Beacon takes 5 per craft, so a full slot is 12 Beacon with nothing left over. A double chest of Glass comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

What is Glass used for?

Glass is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Beacon, Black Stained Glass, Blue Stained Glass, Brown Stained Glass, Cyan Stained Glass, Daylight Detector, Glass Bottle, Glass Pane, Gray Stained Glass, Green Stained Glass, plus 10 other items that call for it.

How long does Glass take to break?

What Glass comes down to is 0.3 against a tool on it and 0.3 against a blast. Identical values are the game's way of saying Glass was not designed to stop anything hitting it. There is no mining tag on Glass, so reaching for a tool on it buys you no speed. Java 26.2 publishes Glass this way, and we print it the same.

When was Glass added to Minecraft?

Glass was added in the early Alpha development period.

Utility Blocks

Glass

A transparent building block made by smelting sand. It drops nothing when broken unless mined with Silk Touch.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Glass at a glance

Utility Blocks holds Glass: a block out of smelting. A slot of Glass holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest.

Glass is also a hub ingredient, feeding 20 different recipes in this catalogue, so a stock in a chest unlocks that many crafts at once. Hardness 0.3 is what Glass is worth in the block data. That number is also what Glass is worth against a blast. It sits between Gilded Blackstone and Glass Pane in Utility Blocks, number 129 of 340 there.

Used to craft

20 items take Glass on the crafting grid, Beacon and Yellow Stained Glass among them, with Utility Blocks accounting for 18. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Glass in it.

How to obtain

Smelting

Cooking

Heat is all Glass asks for: Sand and Red Sand go in a furnace and come back out. Glass needs 10 seconds in the furnace. Glass pays 0.1 experience each time, 6.4 for the whole 64.

Notes

Smelt sand (including red sand) in a furnace. Can be dyed into stained glass and cut into glass panes.

Frequently asked questions about Glass

How do you get Glass in Minecraft?
Glass is obtained through smelting. It is not craftable, but it is an ingredient in 20 recipes.
How do you cook Glass?
Heat is all Glass asks for: Sand and Red Sand go in a furnace and come back out. It needs 10 seconds in the furnace. It pays 0.1 experience each time, 6.4 for the whole 64.
How many Glass can you stack?
Glass at 64 a slot, and Beacon takes 5 per craft, so a full slot is 12 Beacon with nothing left over. A double chest of Glass comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.
What is Glass used for?
Glass is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Beacon, Black Stained Glass, Blue Stained Glass, Brown Stained Glass, Cyan Stained Glass, Daylight Detector, Glass Bottle, Glass Pane, Gray Stained Glass, Green Stained Glass, plus 10 other items that call for it.
How long does Glass take to break?
What Glass comes down to is 0.3 against a tool on it and 0.3 against a blast. Identical values are the game's way of saying Glass was not designed to stop anything hitting it. There is no mining tag on Glass, so reaching for a tool on it buys you no speed. Java 26.2 publishes Glass this way, and we print it the same.
When was Glass added to Minecraft?
Glass was added in the early Alpha development period.

Building with it

Sand smelted gives glass, and glass drops nothing when broken unless the tool carries Silk Touch, so build with a spare stack. Sixteen colours exist as stained glass, and six glass in a row give sixteen panes, which is the cheaper way to fill a large window frame.

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