Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26564307-20160423161136/@comment-26564307-20160423185914

AlteOgre wrote: Was glass pane actually available to these civilisations? We know the Palantirs were of glass, and there were glass phials ... but glass pane manufacturing requires more advanced technology I believe may not have become available to the commoners of Middle-Earth. A very rough glass shard type of glass windows may have been in use in the technologically most advanced civilisations of the west, like Lindon, the Stiffbeards and the Shire, but I wouldn't expect every Shire home to have very clear look-through glass window panes ... partially transparent stained glass seems okay though, but not all bright. Almost all colours could have been available though, but not through colouring with dyes ... but with mineral rock types, providing specific colours to the glass during the smelting process. If we'd really take it to 'replace vanilla glass making' ... we'd have to redefine the glass smelting & shaping process and make it use sand, soda-ash (from salt and limestone: 2 new mineral ore blocks) and for colouring (mixtures of) ores and/or rock types. :P I enjoyed reading this, but I just feel that it wouldn't fit in with the Vanilla Lotr feel... As it stands Glasspanes relatively useless (in my opinion), so spend so much time on creating the above mentioned system would be pointless for now.

Perhaps if Glasspanes ever were required for making a strong item, they could become slightly harder to make, following something like what you've said.