Glass

[Trakehner]

Is there another way to make glass other than having to use 250 silver?

Only way I've found it to work so far. Seems excessive to make two pieces of glass.

I thought you were suppose to use frostwort or am I mistaken?

[Ed Anger]

50 frost crystals (from frostwort plants) will also make glass. maybe you need the right glass blueprint first?

[High Density Hamster]

You can use Frost Crystals. Can find these on snowy worlds. Could also plant Frostwort on your own farm; these produce Frost Crystals.

[PancakeWizard]

WTF I didn't even know you could use silver. Frostwort is what the recipe calls for. Scan planets from space, go to the cold/frozen ones, look for frostwort groves (leaf icon on the scanner hud).

Alternatively, talk to NPC ships at space stations and trading posts as some of them will have frostwort to trade.

[DeadSlash]

Originally posted by Rabid Snail:

You can use Frost Crystals. You can find Frost Crystals on snowy worlds. Could also plant Frostwort on your own farm; these produce Frost Crystals.

and they grow faster than all of my other plants, keep that in mind when planting. I got glass for days.

[aKamikazePug]

honestly i just buy it from the trade network, its not expensive

[Trakehner]

Originally posted by Rabid Snail:

You're supposed to use Frost Crystals. You can find Frost Crystals on snowy worlds. Could also plant Frostwort on your own farm; these produce Frost Crystals.

Ah. I was mistaken that Frostwort and Frost Crystals were one in the same. Thought maybe they changed the name from one to the other.

I suppose it takes less to make it that way than via 250 silver in the refiner as I did it to get a measly two windows.

Thanks.

[Trakehner]

Originally posted by PancakeWizard:

WTF I didn't even know you could use silver. Frostwort is what the recipe calls for. Scan planets from space, go to the cold/frozen ones, look for frostwort groves (leaf icon on the scanner hud).

Alternatively, talk to NPC ships at space stations and trading posts as some of them will have frostwort to trade.

Yeah, me either. I randomly put items in the refiner to see what it produces. Was a bit surprised to see when I put 250 silver in there that it showed glass as the final product.

Weird though when I hit start, it didn't start the countdown from two minutes for several seconds. At least until it produced the first one.

Unless this was an unintended result. More expensive and time consuming way of doing it too. Ty to all for the responses.

[PancakeWizard]

As an aside, if you want mordite but don't want to kill any animals, you can combine Puegeum (dropped from sentinels or bought from traders) and carbon in the refiner for it.

[Ed Anger]

Many materials have many different recipes to produce. I'm guessing you just don't have the glass blueprint yet, but discovered the other production method instead.

https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Glass

[neo_306]

You have to do the farmer missions to get the blueprint for the plant. Worth it, believe me (made my first living glass yesterday)

[NordicNugz]

You have to unlock the Glass blueprint. you do this with the expand your base missions. Once you get on overseer, he'll prompt you to get an agricultural specialist and he'll lead you through all the farming. I think frost crystals are one of the first he teaches you.

[Bubba Fett]

Originally posted by PancakeWizard:

As an aside, if you want mordite but don't want to kill any animals, you can combine Puegeum (dropped from sentinels or bought from traders) and carbon in the refiner for it.

I haven't tried that recipe, but it can be important which order you place things. If you place the pugneum first it may switch the output to big ball and ruin the refiner.
If you were going to try that recipe you should put the carbon in first then the pugneum.

In some cases, placing ingredients in the wrong order will lock the output to a lower limit.

[neo_306]

Since my little son (7) is totally hyped from this game, I let him build his own base on a cold planet with a Frostwort farm. So this support is safe for my base :-)
Glass in masses.

Now I am at an radioactive planet to develop my gamma grass supply. This game is so genius in all its buggy beauty...