Glass

Glass

Transparency	Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	1.5
Tool	Any tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Drops	Nothing
Data values	Glass: dec: 20 hex: 14 bin: 10100 Stained Glass: dec: 241 hex: F1 bin: 11110001
Name	See Data values

	“	Glass, you see, can't be broken with regular tools in Minecraft. Well, not without it shattering into a million tiny, invisible shards. Any experienced builder will always cook up more glass than they need for this exact reason - the tiniest slip and you'll have to make a lengthy trip back to the desert for more sand.	„
		— Duncan Geere

Glass is a decorative fully transparent block which can be dyed into stained glass.

Obtaining

Glass will drop itself only if it is broken with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch; otherwise it will drop nothing.

Block	Glass
Hardness	0.3
Breaking time
Hand	0.45

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Glass + Matching Dye	8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Smelting

Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Sand or Red Sand + Any fuel

Trading

Villager librarians will trade 3 to 5 glass for 1 emerald as part of their tier 3 trades.

Natural generation

Magenta stained glass naturally generates as windows in end cities.

A secret room containing glass can be found inside woodland mansions.

Usage

Most blocks that require placement on a solid block cannot be placed on glass or stained glass. The only exceptions are torches and redstone torches, which can be placed on top of glass, but not attached to their sides.^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]}

Glass blocks adjacent to other glass blocks are invisible when viewed through glass.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Beacon	Glass + Nether Star + Obsidian
Daylight Detector	Glass + Nether Quartz + Any wood Slab
End Crystal	Glass + Eye of Ender + Ghast Tear
Glass Bottle	Glass	3
Glass Pane	Glass	16
Hardened Glass	Aluminum Oxide + Glass + Boron Trioxide	3	[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Hardened Stained Glass	Aluminum Oxide + Matching Stained Glass + Boron Trioxide	3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3	[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Stained Glass Pane	Matching Stained Glass	16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Block	ID Name
Glass	glass
White Stained Glass	white_stained_glass
Orange Stained Glass	orange_stained_glass
Magenta Stained Glass	magenta_stained_glass
Light Blue Stained Glass	light_blue_stained_glass
Yellow Stained Glass	yellow_stained_glass
Lime Stained Glass	lime_stained_glass
Pink Stained Glass	pink_stained_glass
Gray Stained Glass	gray_stained_glass
Light Gray Stained Glass	light_gray_stained_glass
Cyan Stained Glass	cyan_stained_glass
Purple Stained Glass	purple_stained_glass
Blue Stained Glass	blue_stained_glass
Brown Stained Glass	brown_stained_glass
Green Stained Glass	green_stained_glass
Red Stained Glass	red_stained_glass
Black Stained Glass	black_stained_glass

Bedrock Edition:

Block	ID Name	Numeral ID
Glass	glass	20
Stained Glass	stained_glass	95

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, stained glass uses the following data values:

	DV	Description
	0	White Stained Glass
	1	Orange Stained Glass
	2	Magenta Stained Glass
	3	Light Blue Stained Glass
	4	Yellow Stained Glass
	5	Lime Stained Glass
	6	Pink Stained Glass
	7	Gray Stained Glass
	8	Light Gray Stained Glass
	9	Cyan Stained Glass
	10	Purple Stained Glass
	11	Blue Stained Glass
	12	Brown Stained Glass
	13	Green Stained Glass
	14	Red Stained Glass
	15	Black Stained Glass

Video

Note: The glass video is outdated as it does not mention the crafting recipes of beacons, daylight sensors, or stained glass.

History

Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding glass as a purely aesthetic block.
0.0.19a					Glass added to the game.
0.0.19a_06					The texture of glass has now been changed.
Alpha
v1.0.5					Snow will now no longer pass through glass.
August 19, 2010					Notch considers hiring an artist to "make a nicer glass texture".
Beta
1.5_01					Rain will now no longer fall through translucent blocks, including glass.
1.6					Water placed above glass will now create an infinite water source.
1.8			?		Glass is now used to craft glass panes.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2		Glass is now used to craft glass bottles.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3		Glass pillars have been added on top of strongholds.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4		Glass pillars have been now removed from the top of strongholds.
1.2.1			?		Redstone torches and normal torches can now be placed on top of glass, but not on the sides.
1.2.4					Glass can now be picked up with silk touch.
1.3.1			12w21a		Librarian villagers will now sell 4–5 glass for 1 emerald.
1.4.2			12w36a		Glass is now used to craft beacons.
			12w38a		New block breaking sound for glass has been added.
1.5			13w01a		Glass is now used to craft daylight sensors.
1.7.2			13w41a		Added stained glass, replacing the ID of locked chest (95).
					Changed alphanumeric ID for block 95 from chest_locked_aprilfools_super_old_legacy_we_should_not_even_have_this to stained_glass.
			13w42a		Textures smoothed, transparency increased, back side is now no longer showing.
1.8			14w02a		Librarian villagers will now sell 3–5 glass for 1 emerald.
			14w18a		Torches can now be placed on stained glass.
			August 5, 2014		Dinnerbone tweeted a picture showing Stained glass changing the color of a beacon beam.
			14w32a		Beacon beams will now change color when shining through stained glass.
1.9			15w31a		Magenta stained glass will now naturally generate as windows in end cities.
			15w44b		Glass is now used to craft end crystals.
1.11			16w39a		Glass will now generate in woodland mansions.
1.13			17w47a		The different block states for the stained_glass ID have been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 20 and 95.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0					Added glass.
0.3.2					Glass is now used to craft glass panes.
?					Survival players will now no longer have an infinite amount of glass in the inventory.
0.9.0			build 1		Smooth lighting from glass has now been removed.
0.10.0			build 1		Glass texture will now render only on the side of the block facing the player.
0.11.0			build 1		Water placed above glass will now create an infinite water source normally.
0.12.1			build 1		Glass is now used to craft glass bottles.
0.13.0			build 1		Glass is now used to craft daylight sensors.
0.16.0			build 1		Glass is now used to craft beacons.
Pocket Edition
1.0			build 1		Glass is now used to craft end crystals.
					Stained glass and stained glass panes have been added, but use the regular glass texture due to issues with the rendering engine.
					Magenta stained glass will now generate in end cities.
1.0.4			build 1		Librarian villagers will now sell 3-5 glass for 1 emerald.
1.1			build 1		Glass will now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
?					Things like torches, buttons, levers and other blocks can now be placed on the side of glass.
1.2			build 1		Stained glass will now have its own texture.
					Stained glass is now available without the use of inventory editors and can now be crafted.
					Stained glass will now no longer render through itself.
1.4			beta 1.2.13.8		Glass and stained glass can now used to craft hardened glass and hardened stained glass, only with Education Edition features turned on.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added glass.
TU25	CU14	1.17			Added stained glass.

Issues

Issues relating to "Glass" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  The first image of stained glass released by Mojang. Behind the glass is a cat and Grum.

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  The original look of the stained glass blocks.

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  Stained glass.

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  Stained glass changing the beacon color.

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  Glass being obtained by trading with a librarian villager.

See also

• Glass Pane
• Hardened Glass
• Hardened Glass Pane
• 2.0, an April Fools’ release that had "Tinted Glass"

References

Blocks

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