Overview
Saro's Better Glass transforms the way glass works in Minecraft. It changes glass from a static block into a dynamic, breakable material with realistic physics and fully configurable options.
Key Features
🏹 Arrow Breaking
- Shoot Through: Arrows (and all other
AbstractArrowprojectiles) now smash through glass blocks. - Trajectory: Arrows continue their flight path after breaking the glass.
- Shard Effect: Breaking glass spawns shards with configurable count.
🔨 Anvil Smashing
- Physics: Falling anvils will shatter glass blocks beneath them and continue falling.
- Chain Reaction: Can destroy multiple glass blocks in succession.
💥 Entities Break Through Glass
- Breakthrough System: Entities (players, mobs, Iron Golems) can break through glass!
- Speed-based: The faster an entity moves, the more likely it breaks through.
- Size Factor: Larger entities (e.g., Iron Golems) need less speed.
- Cooldown: 1 second cooldown prevents multiple breakthroughs.
🔮 Realistic Glass Shards (Entity System)
- 3D Shard Entities: Glass shatters into physically correct 3D shard entities.
- 17 Glass Types: Normal glass + 16 colored glass variants are supported.
- 17 Glass Panes: All glass panes are also supported.
- Configurable Count: Default 23 shards, adjustable from 1-30.
- Physics Simulation: Shards have gravity, friction, and realistic movement.
- Sound Effects: Shards create glass break sounds on impact.
🩸 Shard Damage
- Step Damage: Entities take damage when stepping on shards lying on the ground.
- Shoes Protect: Boots protect from shard damage (configurable).
- Creative Mode: Players in creative mode don't take damage.
- Flying Shards: Fast-moving shards cause damage on collision.
💣 Explosion Support
- Explosions: Glass destroyed by explosions also spawns shards.
- TNT & Creeper: Works with all explosion sources.
🔧 Mod Compatibility
- Modded Glass: Supports glass blocks from other mods (configurable).
- TaCZ Guns: Full compatibility with Timeless and Classics Zero weapons!
Supported Glass Blocks
| Type | Blocks |
|---|---|
| Normal | Glass |
| Stained | White, Orange, Magenta, Light Blue, Yellow, Lime, Pink, Gray, Light Gray, Cyan, Purple, Blue, Brown, Green, Red, Black Stained Glass |
| Tinted | Tinted Glass |
| Panes | Glass Pane + all 16 Stained Glass Panes |
Configuration
All features are configurable in config/sarosbetterglassmod-common.toml:
Feature Toggles
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
enableArrowGlassBreaking |
true |
Arrows break glass |
enableAnvilGlassBreaking |
true |
Anvils break glass |
enableModdedGlassSupport |
true |
Support for modded glass |
enableEntityGlassBreaking |
true |
Entities can break through glass |
enableTacWeaponGlassBreaking |
true |
TaCZ weapon compatibility |
Shard Settings
| Option | Default | Range | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
enableGlassShards |
true |
- | Enable shards |
glassShardCount |
23 |
1-30 | Shards per block |
glassShardFriction |
0.7 |
0.1-1.0 | Friction (higher = less sliding) |
glassShardLifetime |
200 |
20-6000 | Lifetime in ticks (20 = 1 sec) |
glassShardGroundTime |
100 |
20-1200 | Ground time before despawn |
enableMiningGlassShards |
true |
- | Shards when mining |
enableExplosionGlassShards |
true |
- | Shards from explosions |
Damage Settings
| Option | Default | Range | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
enableGlassShardDamage |
true |
- | Enable shard damage |
glassShardDamageAmount |
1.0 |
0.5-5.0 | Damage (half hearts) |
shoesProtectFromGlass |
true |
- | Boots protect |
entityGlassBreakingThreshold |
2.0 |
0.5-10.0 | Min damage for breakthrough |
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