A Quick Guide to Crafting Glass in Minecraft

Glass is a handy item to have in Minecraft—and, best of all, it’s super easy to make with sand and a furnace. In this guide, we’ll show you exactly how to make this helpful resource in Minecraft, along with other similar recipes, like stained glass and glass panes.

How to Craft Glass in Minecraft

To create glass, add fuel to the lower slot of your furnace and place sand blocks into the upper slot—the furnace will create glass automatically. To make glass panes, fill the bottom 2 rows of a crafting table with glass blocks.

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How to Make Glass in Minecraft

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Fill a furnace with fuel. Put coal, charcoal, dried kelp, or any other fuel source into the bottom square of the furnace.
- Don’t have a furnace? Make one by placing 8 cobblestone blocks in a ring using your crafting table.
Collect sand from the shorelines around your Minecraft world and place a stack of it in the upper box of the furnace.

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The glass will appear in the results square in the smelting window.

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Stained Glass Recipe

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Place 8 glass backs surrounding a unit of dye on a crafting table. Choose the dye color that corresponds with your desired glass color and stick it in the center of the crafting table. Then, place 8 glass blocks on the outer edge of the crafting table to create a stack of 8 stained glass blocks.^{[1]
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Research source} To make each dye color, you need:
- Red: Beetroot, poppy, red tulip, or rosebush
- Orange: Orange tulip or torchflower
- Yellow: Dandelion or sunflower
- Lime: Sea pickle
- Green: Cactus
- Cyan: Pitcher plant
- Light blue: Blue orchid
- Blue: Lapis lazuli or cornflower
- Purple: Red and blue dye
- Magenta: Allium or lilac
- Pink: Peony, pink petals, or pink tulip
- Gray: Black + white dye
- Light gray: Azure bluet, oxeye daisy, or white tulip
- White: Bone meal or lily of the valley
- Brown: Cocoa beans
- Black: Ink sac or wither rose

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Glass Pane Recipe

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Place 6 glass blocks in the bottom 2 rows of a crafting table. This gives you 16 glass panes per 6 glass blocks placed down.^{[2]
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- Tip: Used stained glass blocks to make stained glass panes.

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What to Use Glass for in Minecraft

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Glass bottles Interested in brewing potions? First, you'll need to make glass bottles. Make a "V" shape on a crafting table using 3 glass blocks. This creates 3 glass bottles.^{[3]
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- To fill a bottle with water, hold it in your quick slot bar and use it on any body of water.
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Beacon A beacon is a special tool that can be used to boost your stats in a Minecraft battle. To make one, place 3 obsidian blocks on the bottom row of a crafting table, a nether star in the central slot, and glass blocks in all the other slots.
- To get a nether star: Spawn a Wither in your game and destroy it.
- To get obsidian: Create a system at your home base where moving water interacts with a stationary lava pool.
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Daylight sensors Daylight sensors are redstone-based tools that analyze the amount of sunlight in the game.^{[4]
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- Entire top row: Glass blocks
- Entire middle row: Nether quartz
- Entire bottom row: Wooden slabs
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End crystals End crystals allow players to summon the ender dragon back into the game. To make an end crystal, fill your crafting table accordingly:
- Top row: Glass block, glass block, glass block
- Middle row: Glass block, Eye of Ender, glass block
- Bottom row: Glass block, Ghast tear, glass block

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A redstone current can still travel down the side of a glass block that is diagonal to it.

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To get light underwater, make a tower from glass blocks. As long as the glass is all connected to glass at the surface, a faint glow will spread through it from the daylight above.

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You cannot dye glass panes directly, but you can turn stained glass blocks into panes of the same color.

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Glass can also help you see if there are any monsters near your house at night, and you can see when the sun comes up.
If you place a glass block somewhere you don't want and destroy it, it doesn't go back into your inventory.
To get a glass pane back when you break it, use a silk touch pick axe or else you won't get it back.

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Many objects will not stick to glass, including jack o' lanterns, doors and trapdoors, beds, ladders, rails, redstone wire, and pressure plates. You can place torches on top of glass blocks, but not on the sides.

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