Glass Shards
Minecraft Java mod. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
⬇ Download on CurseForge
Have you always been annoyed at how glass in Minecraft doesn't drop anything when broken? This small and simple mod changes that.
Breaking glass blocks or panes has a random chance of dropping glass shards. You can smelt them in a furnace to get your glass back. So you now have a lossy way of converting panes back into blocks.
You can configure the probability as you see fit. Panes drop accordingly less than blocks.
Stained glass and panes drop stained glass shards. Uncolored glass shards can be stained with dyes, and you can remove the color from glass shards by using gunpowder. These features are configurable too.
Also, you can use your shards to make a sword. It has iron level attack damage but it doesn't last very long.
The shards dropping is compatible with Chisel, MineFactory Reloaded, Tinkers Construct and EnderIO glass if configured.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as glass_shards_mc1.12-1.7.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 43 KB
- Download link checked 2 Nov 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.