In real life, glass is one of the few materials that can be recycled almost indefinitely, provided you have all the pieces for recombining.
In Minecraft, however, when a Glass Block breaks, the entirety of the block is lost, rather than leaving behind pieces to be recombined. The purpose of this suggestion is to add one item and one crafting recipe to the game.
Nine Glass Shards could be combined at a Crafting Table to yield one Glass Block, much like how Glowstones and Glowstone Dust function. However, upon breaking, each Glass Block would drop 7-9 Glass Shards, accounting for those pieces that fall and just cannot be found again because glass bits can be hard to see on the ground.
I don't even think smelting is necessary here. Sure, it'd be more realistic, but you can already use Cobblestone to make a Pickaxe on a Crafting Table. Building Glass Blocks from Shards in the same way really isn't out of the way here.
In Minecraft, however, when a Glass Block breaks, the entirety of the block is lost, rather than leaving behind pieces to be recombined. The purpose of this suggestion is to add one item and one crafting recipe to the game.
Nine Glass Shards could be combined at a Crafting Table to yield one Glass Block, much like how Glowstones and Glowstone Dust function. However, upon breaking, each Glass Block would drop 7-9 Glass Shards, accounting for those pieces that fall and just cannot be found again because glass bits can be hard to see on the ground.
If you have to craft 9 Shards into a Pile and then smelt the Pile, that will just slow things down.
Also, keep in mind that a Glass Block is supposed to drop 7-9 Shards. This is again to account for pieces you just can't find.
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You realize that that Google search is linking to this topic, right?
There are at least two other topics by the bottom of the page.
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Really? Well, the search on this forum returned no such thing.