Connected Glass in FTB Skies 2: Aero

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Connected Glass is a building-focused mod. It adds new glass blocks whose textures connect to neighboring blocks, so large windows look like one seamless pane instead of a grid of separate squares.^[1]

This pack includes Connected Glass 1.1.14, built for NeoForge on Minecraft 1.21.^[2]

What it adds

The mod adds 4 new glass types. Each one comes in all 16 colors, and every block also has a matching pane.^[1]

• Connecting Glass: the regular glass textures, but touching blocks connect.^[1]
• Clear Glass: clear versions of the regular glass textures.^[1]
• Scratched Glass: the old programmer-art glass textures.^[1]
• Tinted Glass: connecting, colored versions of the tinted glass textures. Tinted glass prevents light from passing through.^[1]

Vanilla glass is not changed or replaced. The connecting types are extra blocks, so you can still use the regular vanilla textures whenever you want them.^[1]

Who it is for

It is for builders who want cleaner windows, greenhouses and skylights. It is purely cosmetic, apart from the light-blocking behavior of tinted glass, so you don't need it to progress. You can use it as much or as little as you like.^[1]

Where it fits in progression

The sources I have show Connected Glass only as an included mod. They don't show any quests that use it, or any role in the pack's progression.^[2]

Unverified Crafting recipes for the Connected Glass blocks in this pack could not be confirmed from the available sources, so none are listed here.

Same as in the All the Mods 10 7.2 guide

Connected Glass is a building mod. It adds new glass blocks whose textures join up when you place them side by side, so big windows look like one clean sheet instead of a grid of framed squares. It doesn't touch vanilla glass. It adds extra blocks, so you keep the vanilla look whenever you want it.^[1]

You'll run into 4 glass types. Each one comes in all 16 colors, and every block also has a pane version.^[1]

• Connecting Glass uses the regular glass textures, but blocks that touch connect.^[1]
• Clear Glass is a clear version of the regular glass textures.^[1]
• Scratched Glass brings back the old programmer art glass textures.^[1]
• Tinted Glass has connecting, colored versions of the tinted glass textures, and it stops light from passing through.^[1]

Step 1: Make your first colored Connecting Glass

Start by picking a color for your build and making the full block, like Connecting Blue Stained Glass. In this pack each colored Connecting Glass block has more than one crafting recipe. One starts from plain Connecting Glass, so check each recipe and use whichever matches what's already in your chests.^[3]

4× Connecting Blue Stained GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Blue Stained Glass

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_blue1

Blue shown as an example; every color follows the same pattern.

8× Connecting Blue Stained GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Connecting Glass	Connecting Glass	Connecting Glass
Connecting Glass	any blue dye	Connecting Glass
Connecting Glass	Connecting Glass	Connecting Glass

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_blue2

Step 2: Turn it into panes

Next, make panes for your window frames and thinner details. Each colored pane, like Connecting Blue Stained Glass Pane, has several recipes in this pack. One is made from the full connecting block you just crafted, which is why it pays to make blocks first. Another dyes a plain Connecting Glass Pane.^[3]

4× Connecting Blue Stained Glass PaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Blue Stained Glass Pane

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_blue_pane1

8× Connecting Blue Stained Glass PaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Connecting Glass Pane	Connecting Glass Pane	Connecting Glass Pane
Connecting Glass Pane	any blue dye	Connecting Glass Pane
Connecting Glass Pane	Connecting Glass Pane	Connecting Glass Pane

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_blue_pane2

16× Connecting Blue Stained Glass PaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Connecting Blue Stained Glass

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_blue_pane3

Step 3: Branch out into other colors

Once one color works, the others follow the same setup. For example, Connecting Black Stained Glass, Connecting Cyan Stained Glass and Connecting Lime Stained Glass each have matching block and pane recipes. Look up the color you want and you're set.^[3]

Unverified The recipe for plain, uncolored Connecting Glass and the recipes for Clear, Scratched and Tinted Glass weren't in the recipe excerpt available for this guide, so they aren't shown here. The number of blocks or panes each recipe gives is also unconfirmed. Check the in-game recipe viewer for those. This site does hold FTB Skies 2: Aero's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Same as in the All the Mons 1.1.1 guide

Connected Glass is a purely decorative mod, so there are no machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or item automation to learn. Everything it does is about glass blocks whose textures join up when they touch.^[1]

The four glass types

The mod adds 4 new types of glass block. Each one comes in all 16 colors, and every block also has a matching pane.^[1]

• Connecting Glass: the regular glass textures, but touching blocks connect, like Connecting Glass and Connecting Glass Pane.^[1][4]
• Clear Glass: clear versions of the regular glass textures.^[1][4]
• Scratched Glass: the old programmer art glass textures.^[1][4]
• Tinted Glass: connecting, colored versions of the tinted glass textures. Tinted glass prevents light from passing through.^[1][4]

Vanilla glass is not changed. The mod adds extra blocks next to it, so you can still use the vanilla textures whenever you like.^[1]

Crafting and dyeing

Everything here is made in the crafting grid. The pack's recipe dump lists 119 shaped recipes that turn Connected Glass items into other Connected Glass items. It also lists 35 shaped recipes that turn vanilla items into Connected Glass blocks.^[5]

Black is a good example of the pattern. A vanilla black stained glass block gives you 4 Connecting Black Stained Glass.^[5]

4× Connecting Black Stained GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Black Stained Glass

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_black1

You can also dye plain connecting glass, which gives 8 of the colored blocks per craft.^[5]

8× Connecting Black Stained GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Connecting Glass	Connecting Glass	Connecting Glass
Connecting Glass	any black dye	Connecting Glass
Connecting Glass	Connecting Glass	Connecting Glass

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_black2

To get panes from a colored block, craft it into 16 panes at once.^[5]

16× Connecting Black Stained Glass PaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Connecting Black Stained Glass

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_black_pane3

Unverified The sources do not describe any other mechanics for this mod beyond the glass blocks, panes and their recipes. No config options for it are listed in the pack.

Same as in the All the Mods 10 7.2 guide

Connected Glass has no tech tiers to climb. Every block in this pack comes from a crafting table recipe, and each one is the mod's own recipe rather than a pack-specific change. The progression is really a set of conversion routes: turn ordinary glass into its connecting version, then branch out into colours and panes.^[3]

Step 1: Clear connecting glass and panes

Your base block is Connecting Glass, and every coloured version can branch off it. For panes you have two routes. You can convert a vanilla glass pane directly into Connecting Glass Pane, or you can craft panes from your Connecting Glass blocks.^[3]

4× Connecting Glass PaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Glass Pane

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_pane1

Converts a vanilla glass pane

16× Connecting Glass PaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Connecting Glass

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_pane3

Makes panes from Connecting Glass blocks

Step 2: Stained connecting glass

Each colour of stained connecting glass has two recipes. You can convert the matching vanilla stained glass, or you can dye your clear Connecting Glass. The dye slot accepts any item in the matching colour dye tag, so dyes from other mods in the pack should work as long as they're tagged for that colour.^[3]

4× Connecting Blue Stained GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Blue Stained Glass

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_blue1

Converts vanilla blue stained glass

8× Connecting Blue Stained GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Connecting Glass	Connecting Glass	Connecting Glass
Connecting Glass	any blue dye	Connecting Glass
Connecting Glass	Connecting Glass	Connecting Glass

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_blue2

Dyes clear Connecting Glass blue

The same two routes exist for the other colours, for example Connecting Black Stained Glass, Connecting Cyan Stained Glass, Connecting Lime Stained Glass, Connecting Magenta Stained Glass and Connecting Purple Stained Glass. Their recipes follow the same naming pattern, ending in 1 for the vanilla conversion and 2 for the dye recipe.^[3]

Step 3: Stained connecting panes

Coloured panes give you the most options, with up to three routes each. You can convert the vanilla stained glass pane of that colour, dye a clear Connecting Glass Pane, or craft panes from the matching stained connecting glass block.^[3]

4× Connecting Green Stained Glass PaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Green Stained Glass Pane

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_green_pane1

Converts a vanilla green stained glass pane

8× Connecting Green Stained Glass PaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Connecting Glass Pane	Connecting Glass Pane	Connecting Glass Pane
Connecting Glass Pane	any green dye	Connecting Glass Pane
Connecting Glass Pane	Connecting Glass Pane	Connecting Glass Pane

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_green_pane2

Dyes a clear Connecting Glass Pane green

16× Connecting Green Stained Glass PaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Connecting Green Stained Glass

Recipe id: connectedglass:borderless_glass_green_pane3

Makes panes from Connecting Green Stained Glass

Unverified The recipe dump shown here is truncated, so the exact recipe for clear Connecting Glass itself, and any other glass styles the mod may add in this pack, could not be confirmed.

The link between this mod and other mods in the pack comes from recipes. The pack adds stonecutting recipes that turn Connected Glass blocks into matching glass trapdoors from Glassential.^[6]

Glass to glass trapdoors

If you like the connecting look and want trapdoors to match, the stonecutter is the way to go. The pack adds a stonecutting recipe for each colour of connecting stained glass, and one more for the connecting tinted glass. All of these recipes are added by the pack itself.^[6]

Each trapdoor matches the colour of the glass it comes from. For example, Connecting White Stained Glass gives you White Glass Trapdoor, and Connecting Tinted Glass gives you Tinted Glass Trapdoor.^[6]

White Glass TrapdoorAdded by the pack

Stonecutting

• Connecting White Stained Glass

Recipe id: ftb:stonecutting/glassential/white_glass_trapdoor

One of the colour recipes, the other colours follow the same pattern.

Tinted Glass TrapdoorAdded by the pack

Stonecutting

• Connecting Tinted Glass

Recipe id: ftb:stonecutting/glassential/tinted_glass_trapdoor

The tinted version has its own stonecutting recipe.

FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 ships Connected Glass 1.1.14. It was first included in Aero 1.0.3 or earlier, so you have had this mod from the start of the pack's early releases.^[7]

Here are the notable changes from the mod's own changelog, newest first.^[8]

Connected Glass 1.1.14 (the version in this pack)

• The texture atlas size of Connected Glass textures was significantly reduced.^[8]
• Side section textures of pane blocks now only connect up/down when the pane above/below also has that side section.^[8]
• Spanish and Ukrainian translations were updated.^[8]

Earlier releases

• 1.1.13: Fusion is now used for culling the top and bottom quads of glass panes.^[8]
• 1.1.12: Turkish and Ukrainian translations were added, and glass was added to the appropriate c:... glass tags.^[8]
• 1.1.11: The initial release of Connected Glass for Minecraft 1.20.5 and 1.20.6.^[8]

Unverified No pack changelog entries for Connected Glass were available, so any changes the pack itself made to this mod between releases are unverified.