How to Make Glass in Hytale

At the moment in Hytale Early Access, traditional glass blocks like in Minecraft (transparent block you place in builds) do not exist yet in the game.

However, there is a smelting interaction involving sand that gives you a useful glass product — and that’s the current system players are using.

Can you make glass in Hytale

In Minecraft, for example, you can:

Smelt sand in a furnace to make glass blocks
Use those glass blocks in builds like windows or decorations

This classic recipe exists because glass behavior is part of Minecraft’s block system.

In Hytale Early Access:

You can collect sand near water edges and beaches
You can smelt that sand
But the result is not a solid glass block — it’s a glass bottle item
That item is used for alchemy and liquids, not building.

So even though the interaction “sand → heat → glass-type item” exists, the output and usage are different from what players expect.

Step-by-Step: What you can do for Glass in Hytale

1. Find Sand

Sand can be found in biomes around water — rivers, lakes, beaches, etc.
Break the sand blocks to collect sand.

Fun fact: Some players note that actual sand farming isn’t a thing yet — breaking sand might give you sandstone instead in some areas.

2. Use a Furnace

Hytale includes a furnace system for smelting materials, similar to other survival games — you’ll need:

A furnace structure
A fuel source (wood, coal, etc.)

Place the sand in the furnace input slot along with your fuel.

3. Smelt and Collect

After the smelting finishes: You get Glass Bottles — a craftable item used for:

Potions
Transporting liquids

This is not a transparent block.

Where to get sand in Hytale

1) Badlands / Desert-Like Biomes

Sand is most abundant in desert-style regions of the world, often called Badlands or similar dry biomes. These areas are large sandy zones that stand out visually on the map and are easy to spot from a distance. When you explore these biomes, you’ll see lots of yellow-colored ground that is actual sand you can collect but you only mine Sandstone.

2) Edges of Water Bodies

If you’re not in a desert, you can also find sand along beaches and around lakes or rivers:

Look along shorelines of lakes, rivers, and oceans.
Sand appears where terrain meets water — usually lighter in color than nearby blocks.

These areas are especially useful early in the game if you haven’t reached desert biomes yet.

Special Biome: Howling Sands

There’s also a named zone in Hytale called the Howling Sands, a desert region full of sand dunes, rocky canyons, and desert terrain. Exploring this zone will give you large amounts of sand as well as other desert-themed resources.

About glass blocks and future possibilities

There is evidence that transparent glass blocks are something the developers plan to support later — the developers have discussed “transparent glass” and light features in official modeling blogs (transparency lighting, god rays, etc.) but not tied to a current recipe.

This means: