[2021] Oh come on, broken glass is marked edible?

That is the purpose. It's a way out for when you get stuck somewhere.

Sylen’s right of course, but I find that in practice, broken glass is useless. If I need glass for crafting, I’ll smelt sand. I hate wasting inventory space on broken glass. I always throw it away immediately if I collect some when I have to break a window or what have you. It would be less annoying if instead of eating glass you could, I don’t know, splinter yourself to death with wood, since you always carry wood.

Basically, if I were prepared enough to carry glass to eat if I got stuck, I’d be prepared with enough actually useful materials to not get stuck in the first place. So maybe it was a good idea in older Alphas, but today I think the use case is dubious.

Originally posted by Lord-Knight Fandragon: and when I misclicked it, I almost felt the pain in real life......the thought of eating glass and all the pain that would cause going all the way down is pretty cringy.

Understandable. It’s weird how we can spend all day lopping off zombie heads, but something more unusual like swallowing glass can seem so much more visceral. Desensitization to violence, I suppose.