Glassential Renewed in FTB StoneBlock 4

Same as in the All the Mods 10 0.46 guide

Glassential Renewed is a building-focused mod that adds special glass types without the overhead of a big content mod. The project page pitches it as the cool glass you see in mods like Extra Utilities, such as glass that blocks light or glass that glows, in one lightweight package.^[1]

The pack includes version 3.0.0 of the mod, built for NeoForge 1.21.^[2]

What it adds

• Luminous Glass emits light, just like Glowstone.^[1]
• Redstone Glass emits a strong redstone signal, just like a Block of Redstone.^[1]
• Ghostly Glass is non-solid to all entities of any kind.^[1]
• Ethereal Glass is non-solid to players, while Reverse Ethereal Glass is only solid to players (and fluids).^[1]
• Tinted Ethereal Glass and Tinted Reverse Ethereal Glass combine the properties of vanilla Tinted Glass with their Ethereal counterparts.^[1]
• Glass doors, glass trapdoors and glass slabs, plus doors and trapdoors made of all the Glassential blocks and dyed stained glass doors and trapdoors.^[1]
• Frameless panels from all the glasses of the mod.^[1]

The mod also replaces the vanilla glasses with connected-texture versions, and it supports connected textures through Fusion. The project page says Fusion has been required since version 2.1.0.^[1]

Who it is for

This is a mod for builders. If you want a glowing window, a wall you can walk through, or a glass block that outputs a redstone signal, this is where you get them. It's handy for bases, hidden entrances and redstone-driven builds, and it doesn't ask you to learn a whole tech or magic system.^[1]

Where it fits in progression

Unverified The sources I have don't show any quests involving this mod, and it isn't on the ATM Star path. They also don't say where the glasses unlock in progression, so treat it as a building-utility mod you can use whenever you like. Check the in-game recipes to see what each block needs. This site does hold FTB StoneBlock 4's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Glassential Renewed adds a lot of building glass: glass that gives off light, glass that gives off a redstone signal, glass you can walk through, and matching doors, trapdoors and panes. It also replaces the vanilla glasses with connected-texture versions, so your windows look seamless. The recipes below are all crafting recipes, so you can start right away.^[1][3]

First: make the Glassential Brush

Start with the Glassential Brush. It is the tool that changes the color and properties of colorable glass. Right-click with it to configure it, and you will see the Entity Passthrough and Player Passthrough options. Shift + right-click any block to copy its color.^[4]

Glassential BrushMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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

Recipe id: glassential:glass_painter

Next: colorable glass

Once you have the brush, craft Colorable Glass, the glass you recolor and tweak with it. If you prefer a stained look, Colorable Stained Glass has its own recipe.^[3][4]

8× Colorable GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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

Recipe id: glassential:colorable_glass

8× Colorable Stained GlassMod recipe

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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

Glass doors

The plain Glass Door is the simplest way to get a see-through entrance. The mod also has glass doors and trapdoors for the wood types, such as Acacia Glass Door and Acacia Glass Trapdoor, plus dyed versions such as Blue Glass Door.^[1][3]

3× Glass DoorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_door

Walk-through glass

Ethereal Glass is not solid to players, so you can walk straight through it. Its opposite, Reverse Ethereal Glass, is only solid to players.^[3][4]

4× Ethereal GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Ender Eye

Recipe id: glassential:glass_ethereal

If you want glass that nothing collides with, use Ghostly Glass. It is not solid to entities.^[3][4]

4× Ghostly GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Ender Pearl

Recipe id: glassential:glass_ghostly

Redstone glass and lamps

Redstone Glass emits a redstone signal, which makes it handy in builds that need a window and a signal source.^[1][3][4]

8× Redstone GlassMod recipe

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Glass	Glass	Glass
Glass	Redstone Block	Glass
Glass	Glass	Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_redstone

For lighting, the Lava Lamp is described as a natural lantern that burns like magma. The pack has changed its recipe, so follow the one below instead of what you may remember from the mod elsewhere. The tinted version, Tinted Lava Lamp, is changed by the pack too.^[3][4]

2× Lava LampChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Glass	Glass	Glass
Glass	any lava bucket	Glass
Glass	Glass	Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_lava_lamp

Glassential Renewed is a building mod. It adds glass blocks with special behaviors rather than machines, so in this section you'll find collision rules, light, redstone and a color brush, not power or item handling.^[1]

Collision and passthrough

• Ethereal Glass (Ethereal Glass) is not solid to players, so you can walk straight through it.^[1][4]
• Reverse Ethereal Glass is the opposite: it is only solid to players (and fluids).^[1][4]
• Ghostly Glass is non-solid to all entities of any kind.^[1][4]
• Tinted Ethereal Glass combines the properties of vanilla Tinted Glass and Ethereal Glass. Tinted Reverse Ethereal Glass does the same with Reverse Ethereal Glass.^[1]
• The gravity glass variant softens your fall and has no collision.^[4]

Light and redstone

• Luminous Glass emits light, just like Glowstone.^[1]
• Redstone Glass emits a strong redstone signal, just like a Block of Redstone.^[1]
• The lava lamp glass is a natural lantern that burns like magma, and the thermal glass keeps ice from melting.^[4]

Clear Fluid Glass

Clear Fluid Glass removes the near-surface water face behind the glass, which gives you a crystal-clear view into water. Here's how it's crafted in the pack:^[3][4]

8× Clear Fluid GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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Glass	Glass	Glass
Glass	Prismarine Crystals	Glass
Glass	Glass	Glass

Recipe id: glassential:clear_fluid_glass

Clear Fluid Fake Glass is crafted from the Clear Fluid Glass, like this:^[3]

8× Clear Fluid Fake GlassMod recipe

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Clear Fluid Glass	Clear Fluid Glass	Clear Fluid Glass
Clear Fluid Glass	Ender Eye	Clear Fluid Glass
Clear Fluid Glass	Clear Fluid Glass	Clear Fluid Glass

Recipe id: glassential:clear_fluid_fake_glass

Colorable glass, the brush and one-way glass

Colorable Glass lets you change its color and properties with the Glassential Brush. The painter tooltips say you right-click to configure it, and shift + right-click on any block copies that block's color. The configuration options shown are Entity Passthrough and Player Passthrough.^[3][4]

8× Colorable GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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

Recipe id: glassential:colorable_glass

Colorable Stained Glass is the stained version, and both have matching panes: Colorable Glass Pane and Colorable Stained Glass Pane.^[3]

The one-way glass works as a secret window: it's transparent from one side and solid from the other. Right-click a face with any block to disguise that side.^[4]

Panes, doors and trapdoors

Panes are frameless when inserted between blocks. Some panes are also not solid to players. The mod adds frameless panels for all its glasses, plus doors and trapdoors made from all its glass blocks, including dyed stained glass versions.^[1][4]

The protected doors and trapdoors resist explosions and work like their iron counterparts.^[4]

Wood-themed glass doors, such as Acacia Glass Door, are shapeless recipes that combine a normal door with a glass pane:^[3]

Acacia Glass DoorMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Acacia Door
• Glass Pane

Recipe id: glassential:acacia_glass_door

Colored glass doors, such as Black Glass Door, are shaped recipes that start from the matching vanilla stained glass:^[3]

3× Black Glass DoorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Black Stained Glass

Recipe id: glassential:black_glass_door_recipe

Config

The mod's common config only has setup-logging options: items (a list of items to log on common setup, set to iron ingot in the pack), logDirtBlock (set to false), magicNumber (set to 42, the same as the mod default) and magicNumberIntroduction (an empty introduction message). None of these change glass behavior.^[5]

Glassential Renewed progression in this pack is a ladder of crafting upgrades. You start with plain glass pieces, then convert them into special glass, lamps, doors and trapdoors. Everything below follows the in-pack recipes.^[3]

Unverified The sources here show no quests for this mod, so there is no quest-guided path to describe. Any quest guidance would be told in the pack's quest chapters. The order below comes from the recipes alone.

Basic glass shapes

The entry point is plain glass turned into building pieces: Glass slab, Glass Door and Glass TrapDoor. The recipes are shown below.^[3]

6× Glass slabMod recipe

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Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot
Glass	Glass	Glass
Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: glassential:glass_slab

2× Glass TrapDoorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Glass slab	Glass
Glass	Glass slab

Recipe id: glassential:glass_trapdoor

3× Glass DoorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_door

Special glass from plain glass

Next come the glass types that each add a behaviour. Ethereal Glass and Ghostly Glass are shapeless recipes that start from plain glass. Redstone Glass, Ice Glass and Clear Fluid Glass are shaped recipes that also start from plain glass.^[3]

4× Ethereal GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Ender Eye

Recipe id: glassential:glass_ethereal

4× Ghostly GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Glass
• Ender Pearl

Recipe id: glassential:glass_ghostly

Iron Glass is one of the recipes the pack changed. It accepts any iron ingot from the shared iron ingot tag, so whichever iron you have works.^[3]

4× Iron GlassChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

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Glass	any iron ingot	Glass
any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
Glass	any iron ingot	Glass

Recipe id: glassential:iron_glass

This recipe is changed by the pack: it takes glass plus any iron ingot.

Upgrading what you already made

The later pieces are built from the special glass above, which is how the mod chains together. Here are the main upgrade paths:^[3]

• Ethereal Glass and Reverse Ethereal Glass can be converted into each other. Tinted Ethereal Glass and Tinted Reverse Ethereal Glass do the same.^[3]
• Tinted Ethereal Glass has more than one route: it can be crafted directly or made by upgrading Ethereal Glass. The reverse tinted version can likewise be made by upgrading Reverse Ethereal Glass.^[3]
• Gravity Glass is an upgrade of Iron Glass, so make Iron Glass first.^[3]
• Clear Fluid Fake Glass is an upgrade of Clear Fluid Glass.^[3]
• Tinted Redstone Glass upgrades Redstone Glass with tinted glass.^[3]
• Tinted Luminous Glass upgrades Luminous Glass with tinted glass.^[3]

8× Gravity GlassMod recipe

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Iron Glass	Iron Glass	Iron Glass
Iron Glass	Cobweb	Iron Glass
Iron Glass	Iron Glass	Iron Glass

Recipe id: glassential:gravity_glass

Gravity Glass is made from Iron Glass and a cobweb.

2× Tinted Ethereal GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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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

One of the routes to Tinted Ethereal Glass.

Lamps

The lamps build on the light line. Glowstone Lamp and Glowstone Tinted lamp are built from Luminous Glass. The lava lamps work differently in this pack: Lava Lamp and Tinted Lava Lamp are both recipes the pack changed, and they accept any lava bucket from the shared lava bucket tag.^[3]

2× Lava LampChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Glass	Glass	Glass
Glass	any lava bucket	Glass
Glass	Glass	Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_lava_lamp

Changed by the pack: glass plus any lava bucket.

2× Tinted Lava LampChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Tinted Glass	Tinted Glass	Tinted Glass
Tinted Glass	any lava bucket	Tinted Glass
Tinted Glass	Tinted Glass	Tinted Glass

Recipe id: glassential:glass_lava_lamp_tinted

Changed by the pack: tinted glass plus any lava bucket.

Panes, doors and trapdoors

Most glass types have a matching pane, door and trapdoor. Examples are Ethereal Glass Pane, Ethereal Glass Door and Ghostly Glass TrapDoor. Stained-glass doors and trapdoors, such as Blue Glass Door and Blue Glass Trapdoor, have their own recipes, shown below.^[3]

3× Blue Glass DoorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Blue Stained Glass

Recipe id: glassential:blue_glass_door_recipe

2× Blue Glass TrapdoorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Blue Stained Glass

Recipe id: glassential:blue_glass_trapdoor_recipe

There are also wood-type glass doors and trapdoors, such as Cherry Glass Door and Bamboo Glass Trapdoor. They are shapeless recipes that combine a vanilla door or trapdoor with a glass pane. The Iron Glass door and trapdoor follow the same pattern.^[3]

Cherry Glass DoorMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Cherry Door
• Glass Pane

Recipe id: glassential:cherry_glass_door

A vanilla door plus a glass pane, shapeless.

Colorable glass and the brush

If you want custom colours, craft Colorable Glass or Colorable Stained Glass, each of which has a matching pane. The Glassential Brush is the Glassential Brush, and it has its own recipe.^[3]

8× Colorable GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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

Recipe id: glassential:colorable_glass

8× Colorable Stained GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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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

Glassential BrushMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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

Recipe id: glassential:glass_painter

The Glassential Brush recipe as it exists in this pack.

Good news: Glassential Renewed has a very small config in this pack. Everything lives in one file, config/glassential-common.toml, and the options are about logging messages when the game does its common setup. None of them are listed as controlling the glass blocks themselves.^[5]

What the pack sets

• items is set to a list containing only Iron Ingot. It is described as a list of items to log on common setup.^[5]
• logDirtBlock is set to false. It controls whether the dirt block is logged on common setup.^[5]
• magicNumber is set to 42, which is also the mod default. The valid range is anything above 0.^[5]
• magicNumberIntroduction is set to an empty string. It is the introduction message for the magic number.^[5]

Unverified The mod defaults for the items list, the dirt block logging and the introduction message aren't given in the sources, so whether the pack changed them is unconfirmed.

FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 ships Glassential Renewed 3.4.5, and the mod has been in the pack since 1.0.0 or earlier. Here are the notable changes from the mod's own changelogs, newest first.^[6]

3.4.5

• Rain, snow and clouds now show through plain glass and One Way Glass.^[7]
• Coloured, stained and functional glasses still block weather like in vanilla. They need partial alpha for their tint, which conflicts with the pass that renders weather.^[7]

3.4.4

This one fixes a nasty crash (a StackOverflowError). It happened when a One Way Glass was disguised as another One Way Glass, and it could crash on placement and corrupt the world so it crashed on every load. Affected worlds now load fine.^[8]

3.4.2

• Added Tinted One Way Glass.^[9]
• Water faces next to Clear Fluid Glass are now culled, using a LiquidBlockRenderer mixin.^[9]
• One Way Glass faces now connect via Fusion CTM like the rest of the glass blocks. It works on both sides, including through the opaque (mimic) face when the mimic is glass.^[9]
• Updated the PT_BR localization.^[9]

3.3.2

• Hotfix for a missing tinted glass trapdoor registration.^[10]
• Glass Slab connection is now nearly perfect.^[10]
• Fixed Clear Fluid Fake Glass damage in survival mode.^[10]
• Tinted Ethereal Glass Pane and Tinted Reverse Ethereal Glass are now actually tinted.^[10]
• Fixed Ghost Glass and Gravity Glass placing in water.^[10]
• Updated the zh_cn translation.^[10]

Unverified The 3.4.1 changelog only points to an external page, so what changed in that release is unconfirmed here. There are also no pack changelog entries for this mod.