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[Girlinhat]

What do you do with glass?  I've got the makings for some clear glass laying about and want some creative uses.  Perhaps make some clear coffins for cherished soldiers?  Make a whole tower level from windows?  If I could make glass weapons and armor I probably would just for fun, but I don't think that's in the raws...

[Halnoth]

I use glass for everything. I love the stuff, my entire meeting hall uses clear glass. I make towers out of glass. I have glass statues. I trade glass trap components. Glass is awesome.

[gtmattz]

I have never made clear glass, as I have never had the materials on hand.  However, I use green glass in nearly every fort, due to the fact that it is magma safe, and is an infinite supply material (as long as one has magma).  I make all my screw pumps from green glass, and since .19 I have been making green glass pots to store my booze in (saves wood).  I sometimes also use green glass serrated discs in my dodge-into-a-pit traps.  Without sand and magma I would be really sad.

[Brandstone]

You can make glass weapons for traps. Their combat effectiveness is questionable, but with the unlimited nature of glass you can go for quantity over quality. Glass cages/terrariums are interesting too. Maybe set up an aquarium.

[j0nas]

You make a giant magma pump stack out of clear glass, running the entire length of your fortress, in the middle.  Clear glass windows where applicable.  Mod in clear glass mechanism for OCD combo-bonus!

[Brent Not Broken]

Use clear glass blocks to build windows into the side of a cistern, then once it's filled, put dangerous aquatic wildlife into it. Dwarven aquarium.

[Nameless Archon]

I've never bothered with clear glass, but green glass doors, chests, cabinets, statues, and the like are littered throughout my fortress. I've heard of it being used for dodge-em traps, though I'd probably just use iron discs anyway.

Its value and infinite availability (once you have the magma and sand) make it a very useful fortress material to have!

If nothing else, cranking out "raw glass gems" and cutting them gives you the ability to train both glassmakers and gem workers to your desired level.

[Girlinhat]

Right now I've got like 8 magma forges churning out clay bricks to build with, because glass looks weird on stonesense   By the time I'm done, everyone should be legendary potters and masons!

I've just got some spare clear glass and want something cool.  I've been using it for windows for my animal-powered watchtowers, but I've got a bit of a surplus right now.

[EveryZig]

I am LITERALLY doing everything with glass. I just started a no-mining fortress in a desert (with a volcano and a river).

[Lemunde]

Thanks to the latest updates you can now make glass pots that can be used to store booze and food. At least... when they work. Apparently there's something buggy with glass where it doesn't have the same properties every time you load a game.

[Girlinhat]

That's because it lacks the MAXEDGE token, so it grabs a random edge value for random weapon efficiency.  Unrelated to pot bugs.

[Patchy]

Lots of windows mainly, jeweler training, greenhouse domes, and the occasional magma safe pump is handy. Other than that, it's a relatively minor industry in my forts.

[veok]

That's because it lacks the MAXEDGE token, so it grabs a random edge value for random weapon efficiency.  Unrelated to pot bugs.

This means the above user's "Dodge-into-a-pit" green glass trap varies from "tee-hee ~ *is pushed into a pit" to "Goblin fricassee anyone?"

[Cotes]

Well, lots of underwater windows make tantrum spirals a lot more interesting.

[Sarudak]

How do animal powered watchtowers work?