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Green Stained Glass

Green Stained Glass is a transparent green block used for colored windows and decoration. Like ordinary glass it drops nothing when broken without Silk Touch.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.7

Item ID

green_stained_glass

Green Stained Glass at a glance

Minecraft files Green Stained Glass under Utility Blocks: a block you get from crafting. Carrying Green Stained Glass is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest.

Green Stained Glass owes its colour to green dye. Smelting a cactus gives one. The game rates Green Stained Glass at 0.3 hardness. It holds up against explosions exactly as well as it does against a pickaxe, and no better. It sits between Green Concrete Powder and Grindstone in Utility Blocks, number 149 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
GlassGlass
GlassGlass
GlassGlass
GlassGlass
Green DyeGreen Dye
GlassGlass
GlassGlass
GlassGlass
GlassGlass
Green Stained GlassGreen Stained Glass8
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Green Stained Glass has the grid for Green Stained Glass

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Notes

Eight glass surrounding one dye yield eight stained glass. Can be crafted into stained glass panes.

Frequently asked questions about Green Stained Glass

  1. Glass, Green Dye going into Green Stained Glass, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Green Stained Glass in Minecraft?

    Green Stained Glass is crafted from Glass and Green Dye at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 8.

  2. Green Stained Glass coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.7

    When was Green Stained Glass added to Minecraft?

    Green Stained Glass was added in version 1.7.

  3. 64 Green Stained Glass drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Green Stained Glass can you stack?

    64 Green Stained Glass fills a slot, and that slot costs 64 Glass and 8 Green Dye, since each one returns 8, which is 8 crafts at the crafting table.

  4. Green Stained Glass as a block, the one this breaking time belongs to

    How long does Green Stained Glass take to break?

    Green Stained Glass carries a hardness value of 0.3, and it stands up to explosions at 0.3. Both numbers on Green Stained Glass being equal is the usual case, and it is not built to hold off explosives. Nothing in the block data ties Green Stained Glass to a tool tier, and it breaks the same regardless. Java 26.2 stores Green Stained Glass with those figures unchanged, so it reads the same here.

  5. The green dye that goes into Green Stained Glass, beside Green Stained Glass itself

    What dye does Green Stained Glass need?

    Green dye is what Green Stained Glass needs. Smelting a cactus gives one for Green Stained Glass.

  6. Green Stained Glass on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Green Stained Glass used for?

    Green Stained Glass is a transparent green block used for colored windows and decoration. Like ordinary glass it drops nothing when broken without Silk Touch.

Building with it

Green Stained Glass filters light the way a forest canopy does, which makes it a natural roof for greenhouses and jungle builds. Its dye comes from a smelted cactus rather than a flower, and like every glass block it drops nothing without Silk Touch, so keep a stack in reserve while building.