How to Get Glass in Astroneer

Posted on the 15 January 2022 by Mejoress

Last Updated on 15 January, 2022

How to Get Glass in Astroneer – Learn how to create Glass, its uses, and how to get all the ingredients involved

Glass is a refined resource that is crafted in the Smelting Furnace, requires Quartz, and has a byte value of 150 bytes.

How to Get Glass in Astroneer – Source

Glass cannot be found, you must create it from the following recipe

Requires: Smelting Furnace Module | Recipe: x1 Quartz = x1 Glass

How to Create the Smelting Furnace?

Requires: Medium Printer  Module | Recipe: Smelting Furnace Module = Resin x2 + Compound

Resin: Resin is obtained by using the Terrain Tool on deposits that can be found on all of the Planets

  • The Soil Centrifuge produces 8 Resin with two full Canisters of Soil
  • The Trade Platform gives 2 Resin for every Scrap, up to 8 total for 4 Scrap

Compound: can be found and gathered with the Terrain Tool on all of the planets, with varying rarity on each planet

  • The Soil Centrifuge produces 8 Compound with two full Canisters of Soil
  • The Trade Platform gives 2 Compound for every Scrap, up to 8 total for 4 Scrap.

How to Get Quartz?

What you can and should find is Quartz:

Quartz can be found on all of the Planets.

The  Soil Centrifuge produces 4 Quartz with two full Canisters of Soil.

The Trade Platform gives 2 Quartz for every Scrap, up to 8 total for 4 Scrap.

How to Get Glass in Astroneer – Uses

These are all the items that require Glass in their recipes:

Backpack Printer Recipes

Everything you can create on the Backpack Printer, and the resources you’ll need, plus Glass

  • Oxygen Tank = Glass

Small Printer Recipes

Everything you can create on the Small Printer, and the resources you’ll need, plus Glass

  • Medium Solar Panel = Glass + Copper
  • Medium Resource Canister = Glass + Plastic
  • Med Fluid & Soil Canister = Glass + Plastic
  • Medium Gas Canister = Glass + Silicone

Medium Printer Recipes

Everything you can create on the Medium Printer, and the resources you’ll need, plus Glass

  • Large Resource Canister = Glass + Titanium + Nanocarbon Alloy
  • Atmospheric Condenser = Glass + Plastic + Iron
  • Large Solar Panel = Glass + Aluminum Alloy + Copper
  • Large Wind Turbine = Glass + Aluminum Alloy + Ceramic
  • Chemistry Lab = Glass + Ceramic + Tungsten

Large Printer Recipes

Everything you can create on the Large Printer, and the resources you’ll need, plus Glass

  • Solar Array = Glass + Copper + Graphene+ Aluminum Alloy

More How to get guides:

  • Tungsten
  • Iron
  • Ceramic
  • Aluminum Alloy > here
  • Plastic
  • Explosive Powder
  • Copper
  • Exo Chip
  • Titanium
  • Silicone
  • Steel
  • Rubber
  • Aluminum