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How to Craft Yellow Stained Glass in Minecraft

Yellow Stained Glass in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Colored transparent windows. Minecraft has used the name Yellow Stained Glass since 1.7.2.

With a Crafting Table placed, 8 Glass and 1 Yellow Dye are what Yellow Stained Glass needs. From the top down: three Glass; then two Glass in the left and right columns and a Yellow Dye in the middle column; then three Glass. Expect 8 Yellow Stained Glass from every craft.

Yellow Stained Glass Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Yellow Stained Glass is a colored transparent block for windows and decoration. Yellow Stained Glass uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Yellow Stained Glass since 1.7.2, the oldest release whose language file lists it. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.14. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for the yellow stained glass, so check the grid above rather than the video.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with glass (smelt sand) and yellow dye (craft from various materials).

Counting The Stack

One stack is 8 goes at 8 glass each, which totals 64 yellow stained glass. Bring 8 yellow dye along for the ride. It divides evenly, no glass left over.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Glass8xSmelt sand
Yellow DyeYellow DyeYellow Dye1xCraft from various materials

For Yellow Stained Glass: 8x Glass (smelt sand) and Yellow Dye (craft from various materials), brought to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

Yellow Dye, then Glass, then the Yellow Stained Glass. All in: 8 Sand and 1 Dandelion or sunflower.

  1. 1
    Dandelion or sunflowerDandelion or sunflowerYellow DyeYellow DyeYellow Dye
  2. 2
    88GlassFurnace, repeat 8x
  3. 3
    Yellow Stained Glassthis page

Gather this first

8SandDandelion or sunflowerDandelion or sunflowerDandelion or sunflower

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    8x Glass

  2. 2

    Yellow DyeYellow DyeYellow Dye

  3. 3

    8x Yellow Stained Glass

Minecraft crafting recipe for Yellow Stained Glass: 8 x Glass, 1 x Yellow Dye in a crafting table, making 8 Yellow Stained Glass.

Tips & Notes

  • Shopping list: 8x Glass and 1x Yellow Dye. Plan the Glass first: smelt sand.
  • Each craft yields 8 Yellow Stained Glass, so a full stack of 64 takes 8 crafts.

Uses for Yellow Stained Glass

  • Colored transparent windows
  • Decorative building

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Yellow Stained Glass in Minecraft?
The list for Yellow Stained Glass is short: 8 Glass and 1 Yellow Dye, worked at a Crafting Table. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces 8 Yellow Stained Glass.
What do you need to make Yellow Stained Glass from scratch?
From raw materials only, Yellow Stained Glass comes down to 8 Sand and 1 Dandelion or sunflower. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 3 crafts to get there.
Can you craft Yellow Stained Glass without a crafting table?
You need a table for Yellow Stained Glass. It is laid out as eight Glass and a single Yellow Dye in the centre cell, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for Yellow Stained Glass?
Each ingredient in Yellow Stained Glass has its own source. Glass: smelt sand. Yellow Dye: craft from various materials.
What should I craft first for Yellow Stained Glass?
For Yellow Stained Glass, start with a Yellow Dye: 1 Dandelion or sunflower gives you 1 Yellow Dye. After that the order is Glass, and then the Yellow Stained Glass itself.
How much Yellow Stained Glass do you get from one craft?
The Yellow Stained Glass recipe makes 8 Yellow Stained Glass in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Yellow Stained Glass in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Yellow Stained Glass goes by minecraft:yellow_stained_glass; yellow_stained_glass without the namespace does the same job in a command.
Can you farm everything you need for Yellow Stained Glass?
Yellow Stained Glass needs nothing you have to go find: glass from sand and yellow dye from dandelion. Set those up once and you can keep making yellow stained glass.
What is the give command for Yellow Stained Glass?
The command for Yellow Stained Glass is /give @p yellow_stained_glass. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p yellow_stained_glass 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Yellow Stained Glass recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
No difference to worry about: Yellow Stained Glass takes 8 Glass and 1 Yellow Dye at a Crafting Table on Java and on Bedrock alike, 8 at a time.
What version of Minecraft added Yellow Stained Glass?
As far back as the language files go, the yellow stained glass appears under this name in Minecraft 1.7.2 and not before. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
8 Glass and 1 Yellow Dye in, 8 Yellow Stained Glass out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
The name appears in Minecraft Java 1.7.2 and in nothing older. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
When the recipe last changed
Walked forward through 50 Java releases from 1.13 onwards; 1.14 is the last one that altered it.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
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: 8 Yellow Stained Glass per craft against the stack size.

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