Glassworks

WorldObject

A specialized kiln used to transform sand into buildable blocks and decorations.

Notes

The Glassworks is a mid-tier kiln that smelts sand into glass blocks, lenses, and decorative items, serving as the primary station for glass-based construction and crafting. It must be placed in a Tier 2 room with at least 130 m³ of free volume, so advancing your town’s building materials to mortared stone or brick is a prerequisite. For glass specialists, installing the dedicated Glassworking Advanced Upgrade reduces resource and craft time, making it efficient to mass-produce glass for windows, doors, and housing upgrades.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic (none)Basic Upgrade (−10% cost · −5% labor · −25% time)Advanced (none)Advanced Upgrade (−10% cost · −10% labor · −35% time)Modern (none)Modern Upgrade (−15% cost · −10% labor · −50% time)Specialty (none)Pottery Upgrade (−5% cost · −25% time)

Pottery level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Mass Production (Pottery Lv 3)

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Quantity to craftScales ingredients, labor, time, output & total raw by the number of crafts.

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Iron Bar	8	item
Brick	16	item
Wood Board	20	category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Wood Scrap	≈ 0.64
Ceramic Scrap	≈ 0.32
Iron Scrap	≈ 0.13

Approximate — a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	150 calories
Craft time	5 min
Throughput	≈ 12 Glassworks / hour (base)

As a placed object

Accepts upgrade modules

• Advanced Upgrade
• Basic Upgrade
• Glassworking Advanced Upgrade
• Modern Upgrade

Crafted here

• Decorative Glass Buoy Blue
• Framed Glass
• Framed Glass Door
• Galaxy Vase
• Glass
• Glass Lens
• Glassworking Advanced Upgrade
• Light Bulb
• Orange Vase
• Plant Vase
• Purple Vase
• Quicklime Glass
• Recycled Glass
• Red Vase
• Standing Glass Sign
• Swirl Vase

Recycling & waste

• 4× Ceramic Scrap
• 1.6× Iron Scrap

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

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Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 313.33× Limestone
• 90× Cement
• 80× Palm Log
• 80× Shale
• 54.22× Iron Ore
• 44.33× Wood (any)
• 38.71× Clay
• 28× Wood Board (any)
• 24.59× Silica (any)
• 10× Quicklime
• 0.67× Rebar

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

• Crafting Table
• Housing Objects
• Industrial
• On Off
• Product
• Storage Container
• Usable
• World Object

Obtained from

• Glassworks

See also

Advanced Carpentry TableAdvanced Masonry TableAdvanced Tailoring TableAnvilArrastraAssembly Line

Sand surrenders to the kiln's breath, melting into panes that hold back the weather and vases that catch what light the workshop allows.