How To Make Red Glass in Minecraft [Illustrated Guide]

Featured Image credit: Mojang.

Minecraft has a ton of different building blocks that you can use to make your Minecraft world pop with color and uniqueness.

Amongst those blocks is the stained glass block, which is just regular blocks of glass combined with any of the different dye colors available in the game.

Keep reading to see how to make red glass in Minecraft and use it to spruce up your builds to create beautiful buildings!

Get ready for the 4th of July and decorate your house with this illustrated guide to the Minecraft American Flag Banner Recipe.

Gathering the Materials

Before crafting red glass, you must smelt sand to make regular glass blocks.

You can use any sand blocks in the furnace to make a block of glass, so throw in that red sand and watch it turn into glorious glass.

Regular glass crafting recipe Minecraft — Here you can see how to make regular glass in Minecraft using sand and a furnace.
*(Image credit: Mojang).*

Unfortunately, red sand does not turn into red stained glass when smelted.

Unless you have access to a Mesa, the easiest way to get sand is to gather regular sand from either a beach or a desert biome.

After you have made the glass, you need to get your hands on some red dye. You have several options for creating it.

These options are gathering poppies, rose bushes, beetroot, or roses and placing them on the crafting table. Poppies, roses, and beetroot make only one red dye, while rose bushes create two red dyes.

Red Dye Crafting Recipe Minecraft — Place a red rose (or some of the other options mentioned above) on the crafting table to create the red dye, as I’ve done here.
*(Image credit: Mojang).*

You might also like the illustrated guide on How to Make Light Gray Concrete in Minecraft.

Glass + Red Dye Makes Red Glass

Now that you have glass, it is time to make the red glass finally. Follow the steps below to create red glass:

Open your crafting area.
Place eight pieces of glass in all but the crafting grid’s middle slot.
In the middle spot, place one red dye.
That will create eight red glass blocks!

Red Stained Glass Crafting Recipe Minecraft — I’ve used the regular glass I created above and the red dye to create eight red stained glass blocks. These will come in handy later when creating glass windows from panes.
*(Image credit: Mojang).*

It is important to note that stained glass can only be made by following the exact pattern stated above.

To make a red stained glass pane, follow the crafting recipe below!

Open your crafting menu.
Place six red glass blocks in both the top and middle row.
Leave the 1st box, 2nd box, and 3rd box of the third row completely clear.
That will make 16 red stained glass panes!

Red Stained Glass Panes Window Crafting Recipe Minecraft — When I want to create windows from red stained glass, I usually create some panes – but you can use the full glass decorative block, too, if you prefer a thick window.
*(Image credit: Mojang).*

You can replace the red dye with various dyes to create any other type of glass. If you are unsure of what other dues are available, here are some suggestions:

White Dye
Light Gray dye
Orange Dye
Yellow Dye
Light Blue Dye

What Can You Use Red-Stained Glass For?

Once you have made the red-stained glass, you can use it to make anything that regular glass could be used for. This includes the following items:

Glass bottles
Daylight Sensors
End Crystals

Check out this guide for some cool things you can make from amethyst shards.

How To Give Yourself Red Glass With Commands

If you don’t want to bother crafting red glass yourself and have cheats enabled on your world, you can use the give command to give yourself some:

This content was first published on GameDaft.com

/give @p minecraft:red_stained_glass

For stained glass panes, you can use this command:

/give @p red_stained_glass 1

I’ve written 1, but you can choose any number you want.

Conclusion

If you want to make your Minecraft house look stunning, the red stained glass building block is an excellent way of doing so, especially since glass and tinted glass are some of the most common blocks used in Minecraft.

If you enjoyed this article, check out how to show FPS in Minecraft. Until next time, happy gaming!

FAQ

Does Red Glass Drop When Broken?

It will drop nothing when you break red glass with anything but a tool enchanted with the Silk Touch enchantment. So if you want to regain your glass, only break it with a Silk Touch tool.

Can You Find Red Glass in the World?

When exploring your Minecraft world, you can find many different items, including, sometimes, red glass. The main spots to check include End Cities, Woodland Mansions, and Ancient Cities.

What Minecraft Versions Have Red Stained Glass Blocks?

You can find red stained glass on the following platforms:

Java
Bedrock
PE
Nintendo Switch
Xbox
PlayStation
EDU

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jan has played video games since the early 1980s. He loves getting immersed in video games as a way to take his mind off stuff when the outside world gets too scary. A lifelong gamer, the big interest led to a job as a lecturer on game sound at the University of Copenhagen and several written articles on video games for magazines.