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Soul Sand Glass? (Soul Vitric)

Here's an idea for the Nether:

A new form of glass created out of soul sand. When a player breaks a block of soul sand and places it into a furnace, the block will smelt into Soul Vitric (soul, obviously coming from soul sand, and vitric, which means relating to, resembling, or having the nature of glass). Soul Vitric will be a transparent, brownish-blackish block that emits small particles, and looks a little dusty. The Soul Vitric will be particularly helpful in the Nether, since the glass has the same blast protection as cobblestone. This is very useful, so if a player is getting attacked by ghasts and has a low amount of health, then they can use the Soul Vitric as a barrier against their fiery attacks, and a view to see if they are gone or not.

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    What if it was the glass texture with the some of the faces from the soul sand. This would be great for the nether update 

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    I've seen a couple of suggestions for a glass analogue of soul sand before, so here's some of the properties I've seen suggested for it that could be added to the post:

    - The block could be either transparent or opaque, depending on whether or not it receives redstone power.

    - The block could be solid or intangible, depending on whether or not it receives redstone power. This could be used to stop water from flowing into a space that you still want entities to access (would be useful whenever the block-fluid split is completed and water can flow through stuff like fences)

    Perhaps one of these qualities could apply to soul vitric and the other could apply to a block smelted from the new soul sand like block shown in the trailers?

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    What about this new glass being one way glass, so you can only see in from one side depending on which direction you place it?

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    What if when a redstone signal is passed through the vitric it retains the signal until another signal is passed through it. It could turn slightly red and emit a low light level

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    Oh heres an idea for detale
    If the soul sand was cooking/smelting in a furnace instead of the texture being orange-ish yellow it should be firey blue.

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    Soul glass used in the overworld keeps mobs away

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    Ya thats great its a good way to get transparent blocks out of the nether.

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    This would be a great feature for the update.

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    My version of this idea is smelting Soul Sand in a furnace results in Soul Glass. This glass allows the player to see through the block on front of the glass. This would be especially useful in the Nether, as normal glass's blast resistance is minimal. One could place cobblestone or obsidian in front of the Soul Glass to protect from Ghast fireballs. Of course, the glass couldn't be transparent, so looking through Soul Glass looks like the player has the Blindness effect, or similar. The glass would have a blueish texture, in keeping with the 'Soul' theme.

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    Yes. We need a way to make glass, or something like glass in the nether. Or maybe it could make a one way glass block. Only transparent on one side 

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    This would be so sick! Maybe the glass can still have little textures of the souls but they're transparent.

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    i think that the block could be used for creating a new weapon, a glass ball that will use glowdust or blaze powder as proyectiles and dealling double damage to nether mobs

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    I'm thinking that it should not let light through, so it can be used as something to view the inside of mob farms, while still keeping them dark.

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    The Furnace fire should also turn blue like soul torches and campfires

     

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    Bloody amazing. Absolutely love it mate.

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    we need more renewable transparent blocks

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    What if the glass glows like soul sand fire

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    I was going to suggest this myself. It should be craftable into panes that are equally blast resistant! I dislike the particles being emitted from it, however. They’re obtrusive to the view.

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    I think the ability to craft mirrors out of a soul sand block ( or like mirror glass panes )  would also be a good property

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    this, but instead its modified glass texture to act as decorative glass, with each color having different glass pattern, similar to glazed terracota

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    Rather than giving this glass a different texture, could this instead make a tinted glass? where you cant look in on one side ( this could just be dimmed, or completely obstruct a players view) and could be normal/ coloured glass on the other side