Cyan Stained Glass — Minecraft block

Cyan Stained Glass

Cyan Stained Glass is a dyed glass block that stays see-through while adding a bright cyan tint, crafted 8 per recipe.

Block ID minecraft:cyan_stained_glass
Mod Vanilla
Game versions
1.21

Description

Cyan Stained Glass is the cyan-colored variant of Minecraft's plain glass block, added to Java Edition in version 1.7.2 (snapshot 13w41a) together with all 16 dye colors. The recipe puts one cyan dye in the center of a 3×3 crafting grid and eight glass blocks in the remaining cells, yielding eight Cyan Stained Glass blocks per craft. Cyan Stained Glass is renewable, because plain glass and cyan dye both count as renewable resources. Broken without a Silk Touch enchantment (an enchantment that keeps fragile blocks as items), Cyan Stained Glass shatters and drops nothing; hardness sits at 0.3 and blast resistance at 0.3.

Cyan Stained Glass works as a window block with an aqua tone: players see through the glass, while mobs treat stained glass as completely opaque, cannot see players through the block, and cannot normally spawn on the block. Six Cyan Stained Glass blocks craft into sixteen thin stained glass panes for narrow frames. Stained glass placed anywhere above a beacon recolors the beacon beam: the first glass block sets the beam color, and each additional block blends the beam color with the color of the glass. Redstone dust and redstone components can sit on Cyan Stained Glass but cannot power the block. Cyan Stained Glass never generates naturally, so crafting stays the only source.

Block properties

Item ID minecraft:cyan_stained_glass
/give command /give @p minecraft:cyan_stained_glass
Stackable Yes (64)
Best tool Hand (any)
Renewable Yes
Hardness 0.3
Blast resistance 0.3
Java Edition 1.7.2
Bedrock Edition 1.0.0

Java Edition Guide

How to craft Cyan Stained Glass in Minecraft

  1. 1

    Smelt sand into glass

    Place sand or red sand into a furnace to smelt plain glass blocks; one Cyan Stained Glass craft consumes eight glass blocks.

  2. 2

    Make one cyan dye

    Craft cyan dye from blue dye and green dye, with two cyan dyes per craft, or find a wandering trader offering three cyan dyes for one emerald.

  3. 3

    Fill a 3×3 crafting grid

    Put the cyan dye in the center cell and one glass block in each of the eight remaining cells of the crafting grid.

  4. 4

    Collect eight blocks

    Take the eight Cyan Stained Glass blocks from the crafting output slot and repeat the craft until the build has enough glass.

  5. 5

    Harvest with Silk Touch

    Break placed Cyan Stained Glass only with a Silk Touch tool, because the block drops nothing when broken without the enchantment.

Panes and beacon beams

Six Cyan Stained Glass blocks craft into sixteen thin stained glass panes, and stained glass placed above a beacon recolors the beacon beam toward cyan.

How to craft this block

Crafting
Cyan Stained Glass
8
Cyan Stained Glass

Used in crafts

Frequently asked questions

What tool breaks Cyan Stained Glass fastest?

Stained glass has no assigned tool, so mining speed stays the same with a bare hand, a pickaxe, or any other tool.

Can mobs spawn on Cyan Stained Glass?

Mobs cannot normally spawn on stained glass blocks. Zombie reinforcements are the exception and can spawn on stained glass blocks, though not on stained glass panes.

Does Cyan Stained Glass change a beacon beam color?

Yes. Stained glass placed anywhere above a beacon recolors the beam: the first glass block sets the color, and each additional block blends the beam color with the color of that glass.

Does Cyan Stained Glass generate naturally in Minecraft worlds?

No. Only five other colors generate naturally: magenta stained glass in end cities, brown stained glass in trail ruins, and black, light gray, and white stained glass in trial chambers.

Is Cyan Stained Glass available in Bedrock Edition?

Yes. The Pocket Edition 1.0.0 release added stained glass with the plain glass texture, and version 1.2.0 gave every color a dedicated texture.

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