Green Stained Glass — Minecraft block

Green Stained Glass

Green Stained Glass is a transparent green building block crafted from eight glass and one green dye, giving Minecraft builds colorful see-through windows.

Block ID minecraft:green_stained_glass
Mod Vanilla
Game versions
1.21

Description

Green Stained Glass is the green variant of Minecraft's dyed glass, produced only by crafting: eight glass blocks set around one green dye yield a batch of eight blocks. Glass smelts from sand one-for-one, and one cactus smelts into one Green Dye, so eight sand and one cactus become a full batch of eight blocks. Green Stained Glass never generates in Minecraft structures — natural stained glass exists only as magenta, brown, black, light gray, and white variants. Broken Green Stained Glass drops itself only under a Silk Touch enchantment (a tool enchantment that makes fragile blocks drop themselves); every other tool leaves nothing behind. Hardness sits at 0.3 and blast resistance at 0.3.

Builders set Green Stained Glass into windows, tinted facades, and mosaic walls where color should not hide the world outside. Green Stained Glass placed anywhere above a beacon turns the beacon beam green: the first stained glass block above the beacon sets the beam color, and each additional block blends its own color into the beam. Six stained glass blocks craft into sixteen Green Stained Glass Panes for thin window rows. Green Stained Glass is neither flammable nor susceptible to lava, so green windows survive next to fireplaces and lava falls. A single stack holds 64 Green Stained Glass blocks for large builds.

Block properties

Item ID minecraft:green_stained_glass
/give command /give @p minecraft:green_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

Guide

How to Craft and Use Green Stained Glass in Minecraft

  1. 1

    Smelt the ingredients

    Smelt eight sand in a furnace to get eight glass, then smelt one cactus to get one green dye.

  2. 2

    Craft the blocks

    Place the eight glass around the green dye in a crafting grid, filling all eight outer cells, and collect eight Green Stained Glass blocks.

  3. 3

    Mine with Silk Touch

    Break placed Green Stained Glass only with a Silk Touch tool whenever you want Green Stained Glass back; any tool without the enchantment drops nothing.

  4. 4

    Color a beacon beam

    Place Green Stained Glass in the column above a beacon to turn the beacon beam green.

  5. 5

    Craft thin panes

    Arrange six Green Stained Glass blocks in two rows of three to craft sixteen Green Stained Glass Panes.

Blend beam colors

Each stained glass block above the first averages its color into the beacon beam, so adding white stained glass above Green Stained Glass lightens the beam toward pale green.

How to craft this block

Crafting
Green Stained Glass
8
Green Stained Glass

Used in crafts

Frequently asked questions

Can mobs see you through Green Stained Glass?

No. Mobs treat stained glass as completely opaque, so a Green Stained Glass window hides players from mob sight while players keep a clear view out.

Do mobs spawn on Green Stained Glass?

Normally no — mobs cannot spawn on stained glass blocks. Zombie reinforcements are the one documented exception.

Is Green Stained Glass renewable?

Yes — Minecraft marks stained glass as a renewable resource. For the dye ingredient, wandering traders offer three green dye for one emerald when the trade appears.

Which update added Green Stained Glass?

Java Edition received stained glass in 1.7.2. The Bedrock line gained the block in Pocket Edition 1.0.0, with crafting added in Bedrock 1.2.0.

Can redstone be placed on Green Stained Glass?

Redstone dust, repeaters, and rails have been placeable on stained glass since Java Edition 1.14, but redstone signals cannot power stained glass itself.

What breaks Green Stained Glass fastest?

No tool does. Stained glass has no assigned tool, so a bare hand and any tool break Green Stained Glass at exactly the same speed.

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