Glassential Renewed in FTB Evolution 2

Same as in the All the Mods 10 4.10 guide

Glassential Renewed is a lightweight building mod that, according to its project page, adds a set of special glass blocks in its 1.20.1+ releases, so you get the fun glass types from big content mods without needing one of those mods. This pack includes version 3.2.1, built for NeoForge 1.21.1.^[1][2]

What the glass does

• The project page lists Luminous Glass as emitting light, just like Glowstone.^[1]
• The project page lists Redstone Glass as emitting a strong redstone signal, just like a Block of Redstone.^[1]
• The project page lists Ghostly Glass as non-solid to all entities of any kind.^[1]
• The project page lists Ethereal Glass as non-solid to players, while Reverse Ethereal Glass is only solid to players (and fluids).^[1]
• The project page lists Tinted Ethereal Glass and Tinted Reverse Ethereal Glass as having the properties of both vanilla Tinted Glass and the Ethereal or Reverse Ethereal glass.^[1]

Beyond the glass blocks, the project page's feature list for 1.20.1+ also mentions a simple glass door and trapdoor, and dyed stained glass doors and trapdoors. It also lists doors and trapdoors made of all glassential blocks, frameless panels from all glasses of the mod, and glass slabs.^[1]

The project page says the mod has full connected textures support through Fusion, which it has required since version 2.1.0. It also says vanilla glasses have been completely replaced by connected (CTM) versions.^[1]

Who it is for

Going by the project page's feature list for 1.20.1+, this mod is aimed at builders: it describes light-emitting glass, glass that is non-solid to players or to all entities, and glass that emits a redstone signal.^[1]

Where it fits in the pack

The mod has been in the pack since at least an early version, so it is a long-standing part of the build toolkit.^[2]

Unverified This mod is not on the ATM Star path, and no quests in this pack involve it, so nothing forces you to use it. The feature list above comes from the mod's project page, which describes 1.20.1+ in general, so check in-game that every block exists in version 3.2.1. Crafting recipes are not covered here because none were confirmed for this pack.

Glassential Renewed is a building mod: it adds different kinds of glass, plus doors, trapdoors and frameless panes made from them. The recipes in this section are all crafting-table recipes, so you can start building as soon as you have the materials.^[1][3]

Start with a simple glass door

The Glass Door is the plainest item in the mod, so it is a good first craft to see how the recipes behave. One craft gives you 3 doors.^[1][3]

3× Glass DoorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_door

One craft makes 3 Glass Doors.

Make Ethereal Glass for a wall you can walk through

Ethereal Glass is non-solid to players, so you can walk straight through it. Its mirror image, Reverse Ethereal Glass, is only solid to players (and fluids). In this pack the main Ethereal Glass recipe makes 4 blocks per craft.^[1][3]

4× Ethereal GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Ender Eye

Recipe id: glassential:glass_ethereal

Makes 4 Ethereal Glass per craft.

There is also a second Ethereal Glass recipe, the one that starts from Reverse Ethereal Glass, which makes a single block.^[3]

Ethereal GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Glass Ethereal Reverse

Recipe id: glassential:glass_ethereal_from_reverse

Try Ghostly Glass

Ghostly Glass goes one step further than Ethereal Glass: it is non-solid to all entities of any kind, not just players. Each craft gives you 4 blocks.^[1][3]

4× Ghostly GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Ender Pearl

Recipe id: glassential:glass_ghostly

Makes 4 Ghostly Glass per craft.

Turn your glass into panes

The mod offers frameless panels for all of its glasses. For example, the Ethereal Glass Pane recipe makes 16 panes per craft, which goes a long way on windows.^[1][3]

16× Ethereal Glass PaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Ethereal Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_ethereal_pane

Makes 16 Ethereal Glass Panes per craft.

Add tinted and colorable glass

Tinted Ethereal Glass (Tinted Ethereal Glass) combines the properties of vanilla Tinted Glass and Ethereal Glass. The main recipe makes 8 per craft, and a second one makes 2 from Ethereal Glass.^[1][3]

8× Tinted Ethereal GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Ender Eye

Recipe id: glassential:glass_dark_ethereal

Makes 8 Tinted Ethereal Glass per craft.

2× Tinted Ethereal GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Amethyst Shard	Empty slot
Amethyst Shard	Ethereal Glass	Amethyst Shard
Empty slot	Amethyst Shard	Empty slot

Recipe id: glassential:glass_dark_ethereal_from_ethereal

Makes 2 Tinted Ethereal Glass per craft.

If you want colored builds, the Colorable Glass recipe makes 8 per craft.^[3]

8× Colorable GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Red Dye	Green Dye	Blue Dye
Green Dye	Quartz	Green Dye
Glass	Glass	Glass

Recipe id: glassential:colorable_glass

Light your builds

The Glowstone Lamp and Lava Lamp recipes each make 2 lamps per craft.^[3]

2× Glowstone LampMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Glass	Glass	Glass
Luminous Glass	Glowstone	Luminous Glass
Glass	Glass	Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_glowstone_lamp

2× Lava LampMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Glass	Glass	Glass
Glass	Lava Bucket	Glass
Glass	Glass	Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_lava_lamp

Check the pack's changed recipes

3× Black Glass TrapdoorChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

6 × Black Stained Glass Pane

Recipe id: glassential:black_glass_trapdoor_recipe

Changed by the pack. Makes 3 Black Glass Trapdoors per craft.

Glassential Renewed is a building mod, so there are no machines, power or pipes to wire up here. Its "mechanics" are about how each glass behaves when you, mobs, light, redstone and water interact with it. Once you know the types, you can pick the right one for windows, secret rooms, lighting and doors.^[1]

How each glass behaves

• Luminous Glass emits light, just like Glowstone.^[1]
• Redstone Glass emits a strong redstone signal, just like a Block of Redstone.^[1][5]
• Ghostly Glass is not solid to any entity.^[1][5]
• Ethereal Glass is not solid to players, so you can walk straight through it.^[1][5]
• Reverse Ethereal Glass is the opposite: it is only solid to players (and fluids).^[1][5]
• Tinted Ethereal Glass gives you the properties of both vanilla Tinted Glass and Ethereal Glass. The Tinted Reverse Ethereal version does the same with Reverse Ethereal Glass.^[1]
• Gravity Glass softens the fall and has no collision.^[5]
• Ice Glass keeps ice inside thermal glass without it melting, and the Lava Lamp is described as a natural lantern that burns like magma.^[5]
• Panes are frameless when inserted between blocks. Every glass in the mod has a frameless pane version.^[1][5]

Some blocks carry an explosion resistance tooltip. For doors and trapdoors with that tooltip, the description says they work like an iron door or an iron trapdoor.^[5]

Clear Fluid Glass

Clear Fluid Glass removes the near-surface water face behind the glass, which gives you a crystal-clear view into water. It is great for aquariums and underwater bases. There is also Clear Fluid Fake Glass, which is crafted the same way and makes the same amount.^[3][5]

8× Clear Fluid GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Glass	Glass	Glass
Glass	Prismarine Crystals	Glass
Glass	Glass	Glass

Recipe id: glassential:clear_fluid_glass

This recipe makes 8 Clear Fluid Glass.

Colorable glass and the Glassential Brush

Colorable Glass and its stained and pane versions can have their color and properties changed with the Glassential Brush. Right-click with the brush to open its tuning screen.^[5]

• The tuning screen has toggles for Emit Light, Emit Redstone Signal, Pass All Entities and Pass Player, plus an Apply button.^[5]
• The brush can also copy a color from another block. You get a message when it works, and a different one if the block's color can't be copied.^[5]

8× Colorable GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Red Dye	Green Dye	Blue Dye
Green Dye	Quartz	Green Dye
Glass	Glass	Glass

Recipe id: glassential:colorable_glass

This recipe makes 8 Colorable Glass.

The pane and stained versions have their own recipes too: Colorable Glass Pane, Colorable Stained Glass Pane and Colorable Stained Glass. They are shown below.^[3]

16× Colorable Glass PaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Colorable Glass

Recipe id: glassential:colorable_glass_pane

This recipe makes 16 Colorable Glass Pane.

16× Colorable Stained Glass PaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Colorable Stained Glass

Recipe id: glassential:colorable_stained_glass_pane

This recipe makes 16 Colorable Stained Glass Pane.

8× Colorable Stained GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Red Dye	Green Dye	Blue Dye
Green Dye	Amethyst Shard	Green Dye
White Stained Glass	White Stained Glass	White Stained Glass

Recipe id: glassential:colorable_stained_glass

This recipe makes 8 Colorable Stained Glass.

One Way Glass

One Way Glass works as a secret window: it is transparent from one side and solid from the other. Right-click a face with any block to disguise that side. A Tinted One Way Glass variant also exists.^[5]

Doors and trapdoors

The mod adds doors and trapdoors for all of its glass types, plus dyed stained glass doors and trapdoors and glass slabs. Wood-themed ones such as Acacia Glass Door are shapeless crafts that make a single door.^[1][3]

Acacia Glass DoorMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Acacia Door
• Glass Pane

Recipe id: glassential:acacia_glass_door

Wood-themed glass doors are shapeless and make one door.

The colored doors, like Black Glass Door, are shaped recipes that make 3 doors per craft. The pack changed the trapdoor recipes for black, blue, brown and cyan glass, and each still makes 3 trapdoors.^[3]

3× Black Glass TrapdoorChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

6 × Black Stained Glass Pane

Recipe id: glassential:black_glass_trapdoor_recipe

This is one of the trapdoor recipes the pack changed, and it makes 3 trapdoors.

Breaking and drops

In the loot tables shown, such as the Acacia, Bamboo, Birch, Black, Blue, Brown and Cherry glass doors and trapdoors, the block only drops itself when you break it with a tool that has Silk Touch. The same is true for Clear Fluid Glass, Clear Fluid Fake Glass and the colorable glass blocks and panes. Bring Silk Touch if you want to move them.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]}

Unverified The drops for the remaining door and trapdoor loot tables (for example crimson, cyan and the ethereal variants) live in the mod's data files, which the sources here do not show.

Config

The pack's config file only holds logging and example options: items is set to a list containing minecraft:iron_ingot, logDirtBlock is true, and magicNumber is 42, which is also the mod default. magicNumberIntroduction only sets the text of the intro message. None of these change how the glass blocks behave.^[4]

Glassential Renewed has no tier ladder in the sources for this pack. What the recipe data shows is a flat set of crafting recipes, so you can start with any glass type you like. Below is how the recipes group together and how much each one makes.^[3]

Unverified The quest chapters are not among the sources here, so this guide cannot say whether any pack quest unlocks or rewards Glassential Renewed items. Check the quest book in game if you want to know.

Base glass and panes

Ethereal Glass, Ghostly Glass, Iron Glass and Tinted Ethereal Glass are the base glass recipes in this set. Ethereal Glass is shown first, then Tinted Ethereal Glass.^[3]

4× Ethereal GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Ender Eye

Recipe id: glassential:glass_ethereal

Ethereal Glass makes 4 per craft.

8× Tinted Ethereal GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Tinted Glass
• Ender Eye

Recipe id: glassential:glass_dark_ethereal

Tinted Ethereal Glass is a shapeless recipe that makes 8 per craft.

The batch glasses Colorable Glass, Colorable Stained Glass, Luminous Glass, Redstone Glass, Ice Glass, Gravity Glass and Clear Fluid Glass are all shaped recipes. Pane versions such as Colorable Glass Pane and Luminous Glass Pane exist too.^[3]

8× Luminous GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Glass	Glass	Glass
Glass	Glowstone	Glass
Glass	Glass	Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_light

Luminous Glass makes 8 per craft.

You can also convert between Ethereal variants. Crafting Tinted Ethereal Glass from Ethereal Glass gives 2 per craft, while the recipe that starts from a reverse block gives a single block.^[3]

Doors and trapdoors

Most colored and special doors are shaped recipes, for example Glass Door and Ethereal Glass Door. The matching special trapdoors, such as Ethereal Glass TrapDoor and Glass TrapDoor, are shaped recipes as well.^[3]

3× Glass DoorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_door

Glass Door makes 3 per craft. The special trapdoors make 2.

The wood-themed doors and trapdoors are different: Oak Glass Door, Acacia Glass Trapdoor and the rest of that set are shapeless recipes that make a single item each. Iron Glass Door and Iron Glass Trapdoor work the same way.^[3]

The pack has changed the colored trapdoor recipes for black, blue, brown, cyan, gray, green, light blue and light gray. Each makes 3 per craft. The colored door recipes in the same colors are unchanged mod recipes.^[3]

3× Black Glass TrapdoorChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

6 × Black Stained Glass Pane

Recipe id: glassential:black_glass_trapdoor_recipe

A pack-changed recipe: Black Glass Trapdoor makes 3 per craft.

Lamps, slabs and the brush

Glowstone Lamp and Lava Lamp are shaped recipes and each has a tinted version. Glass slab is a shaped recipe too.^[3]

2× Glowstone LampMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Glass	Glass	Glass
Luminous Glass	Glowstone	Luminous Glass
Glass	Glass	Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_glowstone_lamp

Glowstone Lamp makes 2 per craft.

The Glassential Brush is a single shaped recipe that makes one brush.^[3]

Glassential BrushMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Red Dye	Green Dye	Blue Dye
Empty slot	Stick	Empty slot
Empty slot	Quartz	Empty slot

Recipe id: glassential:glass_painter

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Good news: Glassential Renewed has very little to configure in this pack. The only file shown is the common config, and its options are about logging on common setup and a message built around a magic number.^[18]

What this pack sets

• items is set to a list containing only minecraft:iron_ingot. The config describes it as a list of items to log on common setup.^[18]
• logDirtBlock is set to true. It controls whether the dirt block is logged on common setup.^[18]
• magicNumber is set to 42, which is also the mod default. It must be greater than 0.^[18]
• magicNumberIntroduction is set to "The magic number is... ". The config describes it as the introduction message for the magic number.^[18]

FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 ships Glassential Renewed 5.0.2. The mod was already in the pack in 1.0.2 or earlier, so you may have met it before this version.^[19]

Glassential Renewed 5.0.2

This is the release your pack runs, and it is a bug-fix update. The mod's changelog lists these fixes:^[19][20]

• Tinted One Way Glass no longer shows up as a purple and black missing texture. Its block model failed to load with an "Unknown loader" error.^[20]
• The disguised face of One Way Glass and Tinted One Way Glass is now visible only from outside. Before, its texture also showed from inside the glass, instead of the glass staying see-through.^[20]
• Tinted One Way Glass is now in the c:glass_blocks and minecraft:impermeable block tags, and both Colorable Glass Panes are in minecraft:impermeable.^[20]

In practice, your Tinted One Way Glass renders properly, and One Way Glass stays see-through when you look out from inside.^[20]