While scavenging through ruins and houses, you’ll come across Broken Glass obtained from shattered windows and bottles. At first glance it looks like plain junk, but it’s actually a legitimate crafting material.
Uses
Its biggest use is smelting in the Forge. When fed into the Forge, it counts as a “glass (sand)”-type material and can be used as raw material for making glass products. If you’re dealing with recipes that require glass—installing or repairing window panes, or various crafts—the advantage is that you can source it by melting down Broken Glass instead of bothering to melt sand.
How to Get It
- Tends to drop when you break windows, glass bottles, showcases, and the like in cities and residential areas
- A so-called “found-item resource” that naturally piles up as a byproduct of exploring
Rather than something you gather on purpose, it’s the type that accumulates in your inventory as a side effect of looting.
When to Use It
In the early to mid game, when glass materials tend to run short, it’s reassuring to keep some stockpiled as Forge raw material. It’s bulky yet has a low unit value, so tossing it all into your base’s Forge and leaving it to smelt means none of it goes to waste.
Note that the description contains an ominous line—”If the apocalypse gets out of hand, you could use it to end it all”—but this is flavor (a joke within the game’s lore). It’s not an actual game function, so just make honest use of it as a resource.
※The specific amount obtained from smelting and the applicable recipes vary depending on your version and MOD setup. To be sure, check the required materials in your Forge and recipe screen before collecting.