Working with Glass
I have made glass in my minecraft world by mining sand and putting it in a furnace, I then have glass blocks which I was using for everything from windows to roofing. But I then discovered that I could turn each block into four panes of glass.
Glass is a bit tricky to work with for a couple of reasons in Minecraft. The first is that without an enchanted pick axe you can not pick glass up one you’ve placed it. It just brakes and is lost.
The second is that as I discovered whilst building the tower, there are several ways in which creep mode (used to stop your avatar from plunging to their doom) wont work. The first is that glass panes if put down with nothing around them, make a little cross shape with four arms sticking out from the centre, if you are standing on the pane when you put another pane or block next to it, it sort of stretches out and looses two of the little arms. And so you can fall. You can also end up floating on the outside of the structure you are building which if not noticed will plunge you to death when you uncreep. The last one I found was that if you accidently brake the pane you are standing on you may not land on the one beneath and this is quite easy to do as the glass is hard to see – especially the boundaries between panes etc…
But it makes lovely structures and I only died once making the tower – I’d built a safety mote around the base but it was not wide enough nor deep enough to have been effective sadly.
Posted: Friday, August 16th, 2013 @ 7:33 am
Categories: Minecraft.
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