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How to Craft Glass in Minecraft

Glass in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Windows.

Glass comes out of a Furnace, not out of a crafting grid: 1 Sand in the top slot and fuel below it. What comes out is 1 Glass.

Glass Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Glass is minecraft:glass. In commands the namespace may be left off, so glass works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p glass
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p glass 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve glass 1

Cheats have to be on for Glass to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Glass is a transparent block made by smelting sand. It drops nothing when broken unless using Silk Touch. Glass is produced by smelting in a Furnace rather than by arranging items in a grid.

The glass was already in the game in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release with an English language file to read, so this recipe is at least that old. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.19.4. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for the glass, so check the grid above rather than the video.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with sand (dig sand from beaches and deserts).

The Full Stack Sum

Per craft 1 sand buys 1 glass; per stack 64 buys 64. Craft 64 empties the box exactly.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Sand1xDig sand from beaches and deserts

Glass needs Sand (dig sand from beaches and deserts), worked together at a Furnace.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Open your Furnace interface.
  2. Place Sand in the top input slot.
  3. Add fuel (coal, charcoal, wood, etc.) to the bottom fuel slot.
  4. Wait for the smelting progress bar to complete. Collect your Glass from the output slot.
Minecraft crafting recipe for Glass: 1 x Sand in a furnace, making 1 Glass.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 1x Sand. Start with the Sand: dig sand from beaches and deserts.
  • Dried kelp blocks are the cheapest way to make Glass in bulk, at twenty smelts per block against coal's eight.

Uses for Glass

  • Windows
  • Decorative building
  • Crafting glass panes and bottles

What Glass Goes Into

19 other recipes list Glass as an ingredient. These 8 need the most of it.

Black Stained GlassCrafting TableBlue Stained GlassCrafting TableBrown Stained GlassCrafting TableCyan Stained GlassCrafting TableGray Stained GlassCrafting TableGreen Stained GlassCrafting TableLight Blue Stained GlassCrafting TableLight Gray Stained GlassCrafting Table

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Glass on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Glass in Minecraft?
The list for Glass is short: 1 Sand, worked at a Furnace. Top slot takes the input, bottom slot the fuel, and one craft produces one Glass.
What can you make with Glass?
Glass is an ingredient in 19 other recipes on this site, including Black Stained Glass, Blue Stained Glass, Brown Stained Glass and Cyan Stained Glass. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for Glass?
The materials for Glass each come from somewhere different. Sand: dig sand from beaches and deserts.
How much Glass do you get from one craft?
The Glass recipe makes one Glass per craft.
What is the item ID for Glass in Minecraft?
The Glass item ID is minecraft:glass, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write glass on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Glass?
The command for Glass is /give @p glass. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p glass 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Glass recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 1 Sand at a Furnace gives you Glass, in the layout shown above, one at a time.
Which recipe uses the most Glass?
Of everything on this site, Black Stained Glass swallows the most Glass: 8 Glass in one craft. That is worth knowing before you decide how many to make.
What version of Minecraft added Glass?
The glass was older than we can prove: already there in Minecraft Beta 1.0, and that is the oldest language file Mojang still publishes, so the trail simply stops. The Glass recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Sand in, 1 Glass out, Furnace. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Present in Minecraft Java Beta 1.0, the oldest release that exists to check. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
When the recipe last changed
Every Java release since 1.13 was checked in order, 50 of them, and 1.19.4 is where this recipe last changed.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Glass per craft against the stack size.

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