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Improvised Glass

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Description
You've survived the apocalypse. You've memorized the Wood Time TV Jingle. You've stolen countless cars, survived endless nights and you've scavenged your little heart out and yet, that elusive windshield or home window eludes you. Not anymore! Introducing "Improvised Glass"

Utilizing over 20 new recipes and a few new times, you can now take those destroyed glass shards you've found in the world (or smash some yourself) and utilize nothing more than your oven and a baking tray to create new glass panes. Slather it up with some wood glue to repair existing windows, or frame it off a build a completely brand new window for your house. Got a scalpel on hand? Perfect, now lets cut that pane down to size and give ourselves a brand new windshield or side window.

Life is just a little bit better with Improvised Glass. It is not meant to be a replacement for scavenging but more of a supplement. Maybe you already found 5 windows but the 6th is just no where to be found. No problem, build one! Running out of decent windshields in your world? Why not just craft one and put an end to your headaches. Just find the magazines scattered throughout the world to learn all the recipes and specialties.

TL;DR:
Take broken glass shards, smelt them in an oven to get glass panes. Use glass panes to craft windows for your house and vehicles. Disassemble windows in a house for half the materials and in single-player you can even repair your home windows without replacing them. Glass objects can be smashed to produce glass shards or pick them up off the ground.

Magazine List
Magazine
Teaches
Requires
Handyman Corner's Kitchen Kilns
Glass Smelting
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Woodtime: Topless in the Window
House Windows
Carpentry 2
Precision vehicle windows and crafting
Vehicle Windows
Mechanics 2

Recipe List
An entire directory of the available recipes is listed in the pinned discussions thread

Item IDs
ImprovisedGlass.GlassPane ImprovisedGlass.PanWithGlassShards ImprovisedGlass.PanWithGlassPane ImprovisedGlass.IGMagazineGlass ImprovisedGlass.IGMagazineWindow ImprovisedGlass.IGMagazineCars

Profession Additions
  • Carpenters automatically know how to make all wooden house windows
  • Metalworkers automatically know how to make the metal house window
  • Mechanics automatically know how to make all car windows and windshields
  • Construction Workers automatically know how to smelt glass shards into panes
  • Engineers automatically know how to smelt glass shards into panes

Regarding Crafting Windows
It is strongly recommended that you craft then install 1 house window at a time. The game has an issue where when you craft more than you can carry it will automatically drop it on the ground. However, Windows don't have a floor icon or model because they were never intended to be crafted. If you craft more than you can carry you will end up with invisible windows on the ground doing nothing.

Tested and Released
  • Last tested in 41.73
  • Works in Single Player and Multiplayer*
  • Safe to add to existing worlds (May need to spawn the magazine)
*Ability to repair windows currently only works in Single player

Translations
Improvised Glass is currently supports Brazilian Portugese, Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian and Thai. Contribute additional translations here

Source Code
Improvised Glass is open-source and published on Github[github.com]
Repackage, redistribute, recode, whatever, I don't care, do as you please.
Credit would be appreciated.

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Workshop ID: 2800412098
Mod ID: ImprovisedGlass
Popular Discussions View All (5)
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Nov 14, 2023 @ 9:42pm
PINNED: Translations
Orc
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Dec 22, 2023 @ 1:10pm
PINNED: Bug Reports
Orc
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Nov 21, 2022 @ 1:01am
PINNED: Magazine & Recipes List
Orc
202 Comments
smolpotatoe May 7 @ 8:11am 
nvm i just completely forgot to try the place item button i assumed it was in the build menu
smolpotatoe May 6 @ 12:03pm 
how does one actually use the window once i have it, I'm playing in multiplayer and I've only used the mod in sp so i dont know how to use the windows rather than repairing
Vilespring Apr 13 @ 8:38am 
Just repairing the big windows.

Everything else is perfect.
chewchew1984 Apr 13 @ 6:53am 
is the entire mod fucked in MP or?
Vilespring Mar 30 @ 1:33pm 
It works fine in SP. In MP it is disabled I think.
Gladiolus Mar 30 @ 5:07am 
Is it possible to repair those big windows that go from floor to the ceiling with this aswell?
Luchs Kaiwalker Mar 17 @ 7:11am 
Edit to my post below: I placed the shards back on the ground, picked them up and could prepare for smelt again. BUT this is no solution for 150+ shards :D
Luchs Kaiwalker Mar 17 @ 7:08am 
I absolutely love this mod! But I got a bug, where I'm not able to prepare glass anymore :/
I was able to smelt about 40 glass panes, put them away for inventory space and even after reloading and trying different things, I couldn't make any more preparations for the smelting :/
Darkaros Mar 1 @ 1:30pm 
Just wanted to say I really enjoyed this mod. Saw it floating around for a while and finally joined a server with it, proved invaluable for car maintenance. Feels reasonably balanced in terms of effort vs reward too!
dzlockhead Feb 13 @ 9:35pm 
So does BuildingMenu have the same features as this mod? Does building menu also allow fixing vehicle windows? Or is there a feature gap if you have building menu vs this with regards to glass making?