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[Aquillion]

As seen here, quartz appears in veins, not just in clusters as it does now.  Crushed quartz can be used as a material for glass instead of sand; in pre-Romans times this was the primary method, for instance.

Additionally, while we're on the subject -- glass items can be melted down and used to produce new glass items.  This could be useful for fortresses with no access to sand or quartz, since they could import raw glass or glass blocks to be melted down for moods.  This is true to history; in the Roman world, for instance, it's believed that most of the raw glass in the Empires was produced in a few limited areas, which exported large blocks of the stuff to be melted down and turned into other objects elsewhere.

[Capntastic]

Didn't you post this in another thread?

[Aquillion]

After I posted it here, I mentioned it in the Sand thread, mentioning that I'd brought it up in another thread.  But that thread is really on a different topic; it's probably better to have new suggestions in their own threads.

[Silverionmox]

This is true to history; in the Roman world, for instance, it's believed that most of the raw glass in the Empires was produced in a few limited areas, which exported large blocks of the stuff to be melted down and turned into other objects elsewhere.

The same goes for pottery, which caused the quality of the available pottery in Europe to decline quite drastically after the collapse of the empire. They did export the finished pottery and not the raw material though; with glass that's possible since it can't dry out.

[Craftling]

If you spill magma onto your *smooth sand floor* it should turn into a *rough glass floor* because doesnt extreme heat turn sand into glass? It would also be cool to have a glass fortress