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Rarity tier
 
Common
Renewable Yes
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Paintings are decorative entities that hang on walls. They have many different variants with different sizes when placed, which are chosen based on both the available space and random chance.

Obtaining

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Breaking

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To remove a painting from a wall, a player can attack it, break one of its supporting blocks, or place a block on the front of it (the block is placed on the wall behind the painting rather than being placed 1 block off of the wall). A painting can also be broken by an explosion. A painting always drops as an item when broken.

A painting can also be broken by throwing a projectile at it. The projectile can be any projectile with knockback or that does damage:

Crafting

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Ingredients Crafting recipe
Stick +
Any Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon White Wool.png: Inventory sprite for White Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to White Wool with description: White Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Light Gray Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Light Gray Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Light Gray Wool with description: Light Gray Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Gray Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Gray Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Gray Wool with description: Gray Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Black Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Black Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Black Wool with description: Black Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Brown Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Brown Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Brown Wool with description: Brown Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Red Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Red Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Red Wool with description: Red Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Orange Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Orange Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Orange Wool with description: Orange Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Yellow Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Yellow Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Yellow Wool with description: Yellow Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Lime Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Lime Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Lime Wool with description: Lime Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Green Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Green Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Green Wool with description: Green Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Cyan Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Cyan Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cyan Wool with description: Cyan Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Light Blue Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Light Blue Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Light Blue Wool with description: Light Blue Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Blue Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Blue Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Blue Wool with description: Blue Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Purple Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Purple Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Purple Wool with description: Purple Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Magenta Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Magenta Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Magenta Wool with description: Magenta Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Pink Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Pink Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Pink Wool with description: Pink Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick

πŸ‘ Invicon Painting.png: Inventory sprite for Painting in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Painting

Paintings can be crafted with any color of wool. The color of the wool used does not influence the picture chosen when the painting is placed.

Trading

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VillagerProbabilityVillager wantsPlayer receivesTrades in
stock
Villager
experience
Price
multiplier
JEBE
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Shepherd
πŸ‘ Image
Master
100%100%2 Γ— πŸ‘ Image
Emerald
3 Γ— πŸ‘ Image
12300.05

Usage

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Placement

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All paintings as of Java Edition 1.21.7 and Bedrock Edition 1.21.90. Note that the 2 Γ— 2 paintings in the bottom right corner are only obtainable via commands and Creative inventory.

Paintings can be placed on the sides of blocks that have the "legacy solid" property (this generally includes most fully or partially solid blocks, as well as some non-solid blocks such as signs, banners, pressure plates, bamboo shoots, and sculk veins). They can also be placed on the sides of redstone repeaters and comparators, despite them not being legacy solid.

Being an entity, paintings can simultaneously exist in the same space as blocks such as water or torches. Specifically, a painting can share the space with any block whose collision box does not intersect its hitbox. Paintings, however, cannot intersect other paintings or item frames. Being an entity, paintings can be broken in adventure mode.

There are several different sizes of paintings, listed below. When placed, a painting checks for the amount of space it has around its center point. It then chooses a random canvas of the maximum size allowed in the available space. By arranging blocks on the wall, the player can ensure the painting is the size wanted.

A painting cannot cover an empty gap in a wall. When one of the supporting blocks is removed, the painting breaks after 20 game ticks (1 second), if no supporting blocks are replaced during that interval.

Preset paintings

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This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.
 

In Java Edition, preset painting items are available in the "Functional Blocks" tab of the Creative inventory. The name, size, and author of the painting are displayed in the item tooltip. The "Operator Utilities" tab, if enabled, also contains the four unused elemental paintings. Unlike the regular painting item, these always place the same canvas.

Properties

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Players and mobs are able to walk through paintings, as long as the blocks supporting the painting allow it (signs, open doors, etc). Secret doorways can be created this way. As mobs can pathfind through paintings, secret doorways are ineffective against them.

Paintings are non-flammable and allow light to propagate through them.

All paintings have MERS textures used in Vibrant Visuals, used to define how light reflects on the texture. Only the roughness channel varies per pixel, all other channels are set to 0, except for Dennis which has different metalness and subsurface scattering values. For these textures, see List of painting textures.

Canvases

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"Painting variant" redirects here. For the definition of painting variants in data packs, see Painting variant definition.

There are 47 paintings in the game. 40 of the paintings were made by Kristoffer Zetterstrand, six were made by Sarah Boeving, and one was made by Jens Bergensten.

Painting In-game name Artist Original Description Resource location
Title Size Medium Date
1β€―Γ—β€―1 blocks
(16β€―Γ—β€―16 pixels)
πŸ‘ Image
Kebab med tre pepperoni Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Kebab med tre pepperoni" 30 × 30 cm Oil on linoleum 2001 A kebab with three green chili peppers. kebab
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de_aztec Kristoffer Zetterstrand "de_aztec" 103 × 103 cm Oil on canvas 2002 Free-look perspective of the map Aztec from the video game series Counter-Strike. aztec
πŸ‘ Image
Albanian Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Albanian" [unkn.] Oil on cardboard 2002 A man wearing a fez next to a house and a bush. As the name of the painting suggests, it may be a landscape in Albania. alban
πŸ‘ Image
de_aztec Kristoffer Zetterstrand "de_aztec" 41 × 49 cm Oil on MDF 2002 Free-look perspective of the map Aztec from the video game series Counter-Strike. aztec2
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Target Successfully Bombed Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Target successfully bombed" 41 × 49 cm Oil on MDF 2002 The map Dust II from the video game series Counter-Strike, named "target successfully bombed" in reference to the video game. bomb
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ParadistrΓ€d Kristoffer Zetterstrand "ParadistrΓ€d" 30 × 30 cm Oil on linoleum 1997 Still life of two plants in pots. "ParadistrΓ€d" is Swedish for "jade plant", which is a common name for the depicted species in Scandinavia. plant
πŸ‘ Image
Wasteland Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Wasteland" 41 × 49 cm Oil on panel 2005 A view of some wasteland; a small animal, presumably a rabbit, is sitting on the windowsill. wasteland
πŸ‘ Image
Meditative Sarah Boeving "Meditative" 16 x 16 pixels Digital art[1] 2024 or earlier A version of Salvador Dali's Meditative Rose. Its added stem references Minecraft's removed rose. meditative
1β€―Γ—β€―2 blocks
(16β€―Γ—β€―32 pixels)
πŸ‘ Image
Wanderer Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Wanderer" 33 × 37 cm Oil on canvas 2008 A version of Caspar David Friedrich's famous painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. wanderer
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Graham Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Graham" [unkn.] Oil on panel 2003 King Graham, the player character in the video game series King's Quest.

The original painting is based on Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber by Juan SΓ‘nchez CotΓ‘n.

graham
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Prairie Ride Sarah Boeving "Prairie Ride" 16 x 32 pixels Digital art[1] 2024 or earlier A version of Frederic Remington's The Cowboy. Instead of a cowboy, it shows Noor riding a horse. prairie_ride
2β€―Γ—β€―1 blocks
(32β€―Γ—β€―16 pixels)
πŸ‘ Image
The Pool Kristoffer Zetterstrand "The pool" 84 × 110 cm Oil on canvas 2008 Some men and women skinny-dipping in a pool over a cube of sorts. There is also an old man resting in the lower-right edge. pool
πŸ‘ Image
Bonjour Monsieur Courbet Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Bonjour monsieur Courbet" 62 × 74 cm Graphite on paper 2003 Two hikers with pointy beards seemingly greeting each other. Based on Gustave Courbet's painting The Meeting. courbet
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sunset_dense Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Sunset dense" 61 × 82 cm Oil on MDF 2003 A view of mountains at sunset. sunset
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Seaside Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Seaside" 100 × 120 cm Oil on canvas 2005 Mountains and a lake, with a small photo of a mountain and a bright-colored plant on the window ledge.

The texture was changed in Alpha v1.1.1.

sea
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Creebet Kristoffer Zetterstrand The same painting as Seaside, but the bright-colored plant was replaced with a Creeper head. creebet
2β€―Γ—β€―2 blocks
(32β€―Γ—β€―32 pixels)
πŸ‘ Image
Match Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Match" 41 × 41 cm Oil on canvas 2009 A hand holding a match, causing fire on a white cubic gas fireplace. match
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Bust Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Bust" 20 × 20 cm Egg tempera and oil on canvas 2009 A bust of Marcus Aurelius surrounded by fire. bust
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The Stage Is Set Kristoffer Zetterstrand "The stage is set" 100 × 120 cm Oil on canvas 2006 Scenery from the video game Space Quest I, with the character Graham from the video game series King's Quest appearing twice.

The texture was changed in Alpha v1.1.1.

stage
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The void Kristoffer Zetterstrand "The Void" 20 × 20 cm Egg tempera and oil on canvas 2009 An angel praying into a void with fire below. void
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Skull and Roses Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Moonlight Installation" 64 × 64 cm Oil on canvas 2009 A skeleton at night with red flowers in the foreground.

The original painting is different, depicting a woman sitting in a couch, while the skull is in the middle of a body of glacial water of sorts.

skull_and_roses
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Wither Jens Bergensten[2][3]

(uncredited in-game)

"Wither" 32 x 32 pixels Digital art[3] 2012 or earlier The creation of the wither. wither
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Baroque Sarah Boeving "Baroque" 32 x 32 pixels Digital art[1] 2024 or earlier A decorated pot, a cake, and a sunflower on a dark background, resembling Baroque painting. baroque
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Humble Sarah Boeving "Humble" 32 x 32 pixels Digital art[1] 2024 or earlier A version of Grant Wood's American Gothic, where two villagers are in front of a village house. humble
3β€―Γ—β€―3 blocks
(48β€―Γ—β€―48 pixels)
πŸ‘ Image
Bouquet Kristoffer Zetterstrand ​[more information needed] A bouquet of flowers next to a stairway with a person sitting beside it. bouquet
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Cavebird Kristoffer Zetterstrand ​[more information needed] A cave in a cliff with a bird flying overhead. cavebird
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CotΓ‘n Kristoffer Zetterstrand [1] (part of it is visible in the top left corner of the photo) 43 × 49 cm Oil on canvas 2022 A golden apple and an inverted glistering melon slice in a windowsill. The golden apple is tied by a string in the air and the glistering melon slice is sitting on the windowsill.

Like Graham, this painting is based on Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber by Juan SΓ‘nchez CotΓ‘n.

cotan
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Endboss Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Consider it" 100 × 120 cm Oil on canvas 2006 A skeleton in a brick archway. It features a white silhouette of the character Graham from the video game series King's Quest. endboss
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Fern Kristoffer Zetterstrand [2] ​[more information needed] A potted fern on a desk with a small fire. fern
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Owlemons Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Lemons and owl" 43 × 49 cm Oil on canvas 2023 A two-dimensional owl inside a box, next to some lemons.

The background is based on the painting An Old Man and his Grandson by Domenico Ghirlandaio.

owlemons
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Sunflowers Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Lion and Sunflowers" 43 × 49 cm Oil on canvas 2023 Some potted plants on a table with a two-dimensional sunflower.

Specifically the sunflowers are taken from the oil painting.

sunflowers
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Tides Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Oh, The Sea" 77 × 88 cm Airbrush, vinyl, and oil on canvas 2018 A person sitting in a fetal position by a shoreline. The naked person from the original painting has been given clothes. tides
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Dennis Sarah Boeving "Dennis" [unkn.] 2025 or earlier A painting of a pale wolf, inspired by a painting depicting Dennis seen in A Minecraft Movie. dennis
3β€―Γ—β€―4 blocks
(48β€―Γ—β€―64 pixels)
πŸ‘ Image
Backyard Kristoffer Zetterstrand "The Backyard" 100 × 84 cm Oil on canvas 2022 A brick archway with two women sitting in the yard.

The scenery is based on the painting The Courtyard of a House in Delft by Pieter de Hooch.[4] The figures on the right are from Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii.[5]

backyard
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Pond Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Death And The Maiden" 169 × 147 cm Airbrush, vinyl, and oil on canvas 2018 A maiden sitting in a pond, next to a half-submerged skeleton.

Death and the Maiden was a common motif in Renaissance art, ultimately derived from the Medieval genre Dance of Death.

pond
4β€―Γ—β€―2 blocks
(64β€―Γ—β€―32 pixels)
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Fighters Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Fighters" 20 × 20 cm Oil on canvas 2007 Two men poised to fight.

The fighters are from the video game The Way of the Exploding Fist.[6] The backdrop is based on the painting Indian Summer, Vermont by Willard Metcalf.[7]

fighters
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Changing Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Change of set" 134 × 152 cm Oil on canvas 2008 A person changing clothes in front of some set pieces, including a contrasting gloomy mountain and a sunny countryside.

The figure is based on the person changing clothes from The Baptism of Christ by Piero della Francesca.

changing
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Finding Kristoffer Zetterstrand "The Find" 98 × 134 cm Ink, airbrush, vinyl, and oil on canvas 2015–2016 A person looks into a recently-dug hole with Hellenistic ruins in the background. Studio lights are set up next to them. finding
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Lowmist Kristoffer Zetterstrand "LowMist" 61 × 82 cm Oil on MDF 2003 A digital render of a mountainous landscape.

This motif was created using the scenery generator Terragen, with the renderer deliberately crashed during the construction process.[8]

lowmist
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Passage Kristoffer Zetterstrand "The passage" 120 × 200 cm Oil on canvas 2010 A surreal, mineshaft-like hallway in front of a scene of a beach, with posed skeletons of a person and an extinct giant ground sloth. passage
4β€―Γ—β€―3 blocks
(64β€―Γ—β€―48 pixels)
πŸ‘ Image
Mortal Coil Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Mortal Coil" [unkn.] Oil on panel 2003 Bruno Martinez from the adventure video game Grim Fandango. skeleton
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Kong Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Kong" [unkn.] Oil on panel 2003 A paper-looking screenshot of the level 100m from the arcade video game Donkey Kong. donkey_kong
4β€―Γ—β€―4 blocks
(64β€―Γ—β€―64 pixels)
πŸ‘ Image
Pointer Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Pointer" 41 × 41 cm Oil on canvas 2008 The main character of the video game International Karate + in a fighting stance touching a large hand. It could also be interpreted as a play on Michelangelo's famous painting The Creation of Adam.

The hand is the artist's own. The scenery is based on the painting Winter Landscape with Church by Caspar David Friedrich.[9]

pointer
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Pigscene Kristoffer Zetterstrand "RGB" 15 × 15 cm Oil on canvas 2008 A girl pointing to a pig on a canvas. In the original painting, the canvas shows red, green and blue blocks, representing the three colors of the RGB color model that is typically used by computer displays.

This painting is based on the painting The Artist's Studio by Jacob van Oost.

pigscene
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Skull On Fire Kristoffer Zetterstrand "Skull on Fire" 35 × 35 cm Oil on canvas 2010 A skull on fire; in the background, there is a moon in a clear night sky.

This painting is based on a Minecraft screenshot,[10] with the grass block and the three-dimensional skull added on top.[11]
The actual painting was added in Beta 1.3. (See the trivia section for more info.)

burning_skull
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Orb Kristoffer Zetterstrand "The orb" 69 × 79 cm Oil on canvas 2022 An orb of light in the middle of an Italian landscape at night.

This painting is based on the painting St. Francis in Ecstasy by Giovanni Bellini.[12]

orb
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Unpacked Sarah Boeving "Unpacked" 64 x 64 pixels Digital art[1] 2024 or earlier A Minecraft landscape, showing a cliff with a waterfall and a pig floating in water.

This painting is based on pack.png.

unpacked

Unused paintings

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Some paintings are unused and cannot be placed by default, but can be summoned by commands (such as /summon minecraft:painting ~ ~ ~ {variant:"water"}) or through a data pack. They can also be obtained directly from the Operator Utilities tab in the Creative inventory.β€Œ[Java Edition only]

According to Helen Zbihlyj,[13] these paintings were originally added to Pocket Edition as part of a promotional map meant to be shown at MINECON 2012 or 2013. No footage of the map exists and the artist of these paintings remains unknown, but they were credited to Mojang in Java Edition.

Painting Name Artist Description Resource location
2β€―Γ—β€―2 blocks
(32β€―Γ—β€―32 pixels)
πŸ‘ Image
Earth Mojang
(Unknown Artist)
One of the four classical elements represented in abstact form: Earth. earth
πŸ‘ Image
Wind Mojang
(Unknown Artist)
One of the four classical elements represented in abstact form: Air. wind
πŸ‘ Image
Fire Mojang
(Unknown Artist)
One of the four classical elements represented in abstact form: Fire. fire
πŸ‘ Image
Water Mojang
(Unknown Artist)
One of the four classical elements represented in abstact form: Water. water

Sounds

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Java Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Painting brokenFriendly MobsWhen a painting is broken or pops offentity.painting.breaksubtitles.entity.painting.break​1.01.016
​Painting placedFriendly MobsWhen a painting is placedentity.painting.placesubtitles.entity.painting.place​1.01.016

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitch
​ ?BlocksWhen a painting is broken or pops offblock.itemframe.break​ ?1.01.0
​ ?BlocksWhen a painting is placedblock.itemframe.add_item​ ?1.01.0

Data values

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Java Edition:

ItemIdentifierForm Translation key
πŸ‘ ItemSprite painting.png: Sprite image for painting in Minecraft
Painting
paintingItem item.minecraft.painting
EntityIdentifier Translation key
πŸ‘ EntitySprite painting.png: Sprite image for painting in Minecraft
Painting
painting entity.minecraft.painting

Bedrock Edition:

ItemIdentifierNumeric ID Form Translation key
πŸ‘ ItemSprite painting.png: Sprite image for painting in Minecraft
Painting
painting357Item item.painting.name
EntityIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
πŸ‘ EntitySprite painting.png: Sprite image for painting in Minecraft
Painting
painting83 entity.painting.name

Entity data

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Paintings have entity data that defines various properties of the entity.

Java Edition:

Main article: Entity format

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Item data

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Java Edition:

  • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] components: the item's components tag.
    • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] minecraft:entity_data: NBT applied to an entity when created from an item. Depending on the entity type that this item spawns, and the entity ID specified in this component, this component may add a red message to the item's tooltip (for operator players only) warning the player that using it may result in command execution.
      • See Entity format. Must include id tag. Excludes UUID and Passengers.
    • [String] minecraft:painting/variant: One painting variant (an [String] ID) β€” The variant of the . If present on an item, the item's tooltip will display: the painting's name (in yellow), the artist's name (in gray), and the painting's width & height in blocks (in white). Not all paintings have an artist attributed to them. If a painting item is in the creative inventory screen and this component is not present, a gray line of text that says "Random variant" is added to the tooltip instead.

Bedrock Edition:

JSON format

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Painting variants can be configured using JSON files within a data pack.

Videos

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History

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Java Edition

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Java Edition Indev
20100223πŸ‘ Image
Added paintings.
There are currently 19 canvases, which can be viewed at Java Edition history of textures/Paintings.
The crafting recipe of paintings uses eight planks and light gray wool.
πŸ‘ Invicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak Planks
πŸ‘ Invicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak Planks
πŸ‘ Invicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak Planks
πŸ‘ Invicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak Planks
πŸ‘ Invicon Light Gray Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Light Gray Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Light Gray Wool with description: Light Gray Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak Planks
πŸ‘ Invicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak Planks
πŸ‘ Invicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak Planks
πŸ‘ Invicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak Planks

πŸ‘ Invicon Painting.png: Inventory sprite for Painting in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Painting
Painting textures are currently stored on a texture atlas called kz.png.
Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1414The crafting recipe of paintings has been changed, so that it now uses sticks, rather than planks.
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Light Gray Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Light Gray Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Light Gray Wool with description: Light Gray Wool
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
πŸ‘ Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick

πŸ‘ Invicon Painting.png: Inventory sprite for Painting in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Painting
Java Edition Alpha
v1.1.1Added five more painting canvases, for a total of 24.
The textures of two paintings have been changed.
Java Edition Beta
1.2_01Added a new painting, although it uses an untextured part of kz.png due to the painting texture not yet being implemented.
1.3The texture of the new painting has been added to the part of kz.png displayed by the new painting.
April 27, 2011Custom paintings are mentioned by Notch.
1.7.3Paintings pushed by pistons now pop off.
Java Edition
1.4.212w36aAdded new painting canvas "Wither".
Paintings can now be placed overlapping one another.
1.814w10aPaintings can no longer be placed directly inside of each other.
1.915w49aPaintings can no longer be destroyed by lightning.
15w50aAdded sounds for placing and breaking paintings: entity.painting.place and entity.painting.break.
1.1217w06aPaintings now have a more intuitive placement system. When placed, a painting always uses the maximum possible amount of available space.
1.1418w43aπŸ‘ Image
The item texture of paintings has been changed.
19w07aPaintings are now stored as individual image files instead of parts of a single large image file, and now support animations.
19w11aShepherd villagers now sell paintings.
1.1721w11aThe painting back texture has been updated to be in line with the texture update.
1.1922w16aAdded the four unused paintings from Bedrock Edition: "Earth", "Wind", "Fire", and "Water".
These paintings can be added through a data pack, or with the /summon command.
1.19.423w06aAdded painting variants to "Functional Blocks" tab in the Creative inventory.
Paintings with pre-defined variant now display author, title and size in description when hovered over.
The "Operator Utilities" tab now contains the four paintings that are not available in Survival mode.
1.20.523w51aChanged the subtitle for breaking a painting from "Painting breaks" to "Painting broken".
1.2124w18aAdded twenty new paintings: "Meditative", "Praire Ride", "Baroque", "Humble", "Unpacked", "Backyard", "Bouquet", "Cavebird", "Changing", "CotΓ‘n", "Endboss", "Fern", "Finding", "Lowmist", "Orb", "Owlemons", "Passage", "Pond", "Sunflowers" and, "Tides".
24w20aPaintings with invalid variants can now be loaded, in which case the missing texture is used.
1.21.224w33aPaintings are no longer destroyed by TNT that explodes in water.[14]
1.21.525w04aPaintings with invalid variant data are now converted to a default painting upon reloading the world.
1.21.7Release Candidate 1Added the "Dennis" painting.
Upcoming Java Edition
26.3snapshot1Paintings with custom names now also show those names when the player looks at them in the world.

Bedrock Edition

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Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.5.0πŸ‘ Image
Added paintings.
There are currently 25 canvases, which can be viewed at Bedrock Edition history of textures/Paintings.
v0.8.0build 3A new painting rendering has been added.​[more information needed]
v0.12.1build 1Paintings are no longer available from the nether reactor.
v0.15.0build 1Paintings now have sounds when placed and broken.
Pocket Edition
1.0.7Added new painting canvas 'Wither'.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3πŸ‘ Image
The item texture of paintings has been changed.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.4Paintings can now be bought from shepherd villagers.
1.17.0beta 1.17.0.50The painting back texture has been updated to be in line with the texture update.
1.21.0
Experiment
Update 1.21
Preview 1.21.0.21Added five new paintings: "Meditative", "Praire Ride", "Baroque", "Humble", and "Unpacked".
1.21.0Preview 1.21.0.22All the paintings mentioned above are now available without using the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.21.0.24Added fifteen new paintings: "Backyard", "Bouquet", "Cavebird", "Changing", "CotΓ‘n", "Endboss", "Fern", "Finding", "Lowmist", "Orb", "Owlemons", "Passage", "Pond", "Sunflowers" and "Tides".
1.21.90Preview 1.21.90.20Added MERS textures for all paintings for Vibrant Visuals.
releaseAdded the "Dennis" painting.
1.21.100Preview 1.21.100.23Added the "Dennis" painting to the Preview version. In previous 1.21.100 Previews, loading a world with the "Dennis" painting would either break the painting or turn it into "Kebab med tre pepperoni".

Legacy Console Edition

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Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU1CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1πŸ‘ Image
Added paintings.
There are currently 25 canvases, which can be viewed at Legacy Console Edition history of textures/Paintings.
TU10Reaching the maximum number of item frames/paintings in a world now prevents the player from placing more of them instead of removing existing ones.
TU11The limit for paintings in a world has been increased.
A message is now displayed when the maximum paintings are reached.
TU141.04Added new painting canvas 'Wither'.
TU41CU301.331.331.33Patch 11Only up to 100 item frames and paintings can now be rendered on the screen at once.[verify]
TU43CU331.361.361.36Patch 13Added sounds for paintings.
TU46CU361.381.381.38Patch 15Added four 1Γ—1 paintings with internal IDs 1x1E1, 1x1E2, 1x1E3, and 1x1E4. In the default texture pack, these are respectively duplicates of "Kebab", "Aztec", "Alban", and "Aztec2"; some texture packs and mash-up packs, however, change these to use unique textures.​[more information needed]
TU54CU441.521.521.52Patch 241.0.4Paintings now have a more intuitive placement system. When placed, a painting always uses the maximum possible amount of available space.
1.90 πŸ‘ Image
The item texture of paintings has been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

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New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0πŸ‘ Image
Added paintings.
There are currently 25 canvases, which can be viewed at New Nintendo 3DS Edition history of textures/Paintings.

Data history

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Java Edition
1.1116w32aThe entity ID for paintings has been changed from Painting to painting.
1.1317w47aPrior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 321.​[more information needed]
18w02aPaintings now use a resource location for their motive.

April Fools paintings

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This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.
 

Java Edition 24w14potato

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These paintings exist only in 24w14potato:

Painting Name Artist Size Resource location Original
πŸ‘ Image
Tasty Shapes Mr. Potato
(Unknown Artist)
2β€―Γ—β€―2 blocks
(32β€―Γ—β€―32 pixels)
abtsractato
πŸ‘ Image
Self Portrait Mr. Potato
(Unknown Artist)
2β€―Γ—β€―3 blocks
(32β€―Γ—β€―48 pixels)
mr_potato References "The Son of Man" by RenΓ© Magritte.
πŸ‘ Image
Potato Cris B
(Unknown Artist)
4β€―Γ—β€―2 blocks
(64β€―Γ—β€―32 pixels)
potatoe
πŸ‘ Image
In The Spotlight Mr. Potato
(Unknown Artist)
3β€―Γ—β€―3 blocks
(48β€―Γ—β€―48 pixels)
ubiquitato
πŸ‘ Image
Hot Potato Mr. Potato
(Unknown Artist)
4β€―Γ—β€―4 blocks
(64β€―Γ—β€―64 pixels)
burning_potato References "Skull on Fire" by Kristoffer Zetterstrand.
πŸ‘ Image
This is not a potato Mr. Potato
(Unknown Artist)
8β€―Γ—β€―4 blocks
(128β€―Γ—β€―64 pixels)
ceci References "The Treachery of Images" by RenΓ© Magritte.
πŸ‘ Image
The Treachery of Potatoes Mr. Potato
(Unknown Artist)
8β€―Γ—β€―8 blocks
(128β€―Γ—β€―128 pixels)
poisonous_potato References "The Treachery of Images" by RenΓ© Magritte.

Issues

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Issues relating to "Painting" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

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  • On April 26, 2011, Notch stated that the automapping code can be used to share custom paintings and books in the future.[15]
  • The texture on the back of a painting is the same as the wooden planks texture, but with a yellowish color similar to that of chests (but slightly darker).
  • The "Skull on Fire" painting contains a Minecraft world in the background, which is based on a screenshot taken by the artist in Alpha 1.1.2_01 (or earlier) on October 12, 2010, at 13:22:49 (UTC+2).[16]
    • The seeds for this world are -1044887956651363087 and -6984854390176336655 (both are the same), standing at X=-249.65, Y=91, Z=-29.04.[17][18]
  • The "Skull on Fire" painting's texture was added in Beta 1.3. However, the code for paintings to randomly display the part of the Kz.png texture that was to be occupied by the Burning Skull painting was added earlier, in Beta 1.2_01. As there was nothing on this part of the texture except for a purple background grid, this is what would be displayed if the painting was randomly chosen, until the Burning Skull painting texture was actually added.
  • The original "Skull on Fire" painting was given to Wojciech Mroczek, the winner of an official texture pack competition by Mojang.[19][20]
  • The "Wither" painting was the first painting to be painted by someone other than Kristoffer Zetterstrand, instead being made by Jens Bergensten.[2][3]
  • For Minecraft's 15th birthday, 25 new paintings were added to the game. Of those, 15 were created by the original painting artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand.[21]
  • The "Unpacked" painting's pig was scaled up by Sarah Boeving in order for it to pop out in the painting. [1]

Gallery

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Renders

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Screenshots

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Mojang screenshots

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Textures

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Concept art

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In other media

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Original paintings

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See also

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References

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f "THE ART OF MINECRAFT @ 4:10" – Minecraft on YouTube, July 13, 2024
  2. ↑ a b "Who Made Minecraft’s (Formerly) LAST Painting?!" by AntVenom – YouTube, 29 October 2022.
  3. ↑ a b c "Here's some trivia for you...

    Since the paintings in Minecraft are down-scaled versions of real-life ones, (such as the one on topic, http://zetterstrand.com/work/pictures/2008/pointer750.jpg ), they have anti-aliased edges and more color gradients compared to other Minecraft art assets (blocks and items). So when I added the "Wither painting" (which isn't based on a real painting) I had to draw it using a soft brush tool instead of a hard pencil tool, to get the same visual effect. Obviously it doesn't compare to Zetterstrand's work, but... it's trivia."
    by jeb_ – Reddit, December 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ "The Backyard, Me, Oil on canvas, 2022" by Kristoffer Zetterstrand – Reddit, August 9, 2022. "Yes, the 'scenery' is based on a painting by Pieter de Hooch."
  5. ↑ "The Backyard, Me, Oil on canvas, 2022" by Kristoffer Zetterstrand – Reddit, August 10, 2022. "Yes, that's correct"
  6. ↑ "Original Minecraft painting Number 15/25: 'Fighters'" by Kristoffer Zetterstrand – Instagram, June 27, 2024. "The origin of the fighter sprites is the 1985 game 'The way of the exploding fist' by Beam software."
  7. ↑ "Original Minecraft painting Number 15/25: 'Fighters'" by Kristoffer Zetterstrand – Instagram, June 27, 2024. "The backdrop is a painting by american painter Metcalf."
  8. ↑ "Found one of them. (Lowmist)" by Kristoffer Zetterstrand – Instagram, November 12, 2024. "It's a landscape in the process of being constructed by a landscape generator called Terragen. I crashed the renderer before it could finish and painted the result."
  9. ↑ "Realm News" (Β§ An Exclusive Interview with Artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand) by Greg Howard – Spotify, June 13, 2024.
  10. ↑ "https://web.archive.org/web/20220928041338/https://imgur.com/HVhrbnH" (archived) – Imgur, 22 August 2020.
  11. ↑ "https://web.archive.org/web/20200906184721/https://imgur.com/AwqQFS6" (archived) – Imgur, 23 August 2020.
  12. ↑ "bellini vs orb" by Kristoffer Zetterstrand – YouTube, November 24, 2022.
  13. ↑ "You mean Jappa, not Kappa. 😁 Former Mojangsta here. These were originally added as part of a Pocket Edition promo map at one of the Minecons (I think Paris? Maybe Orlando) to promote Pocket Edition. They have never been used in game." by HelenAngel – Reddit, April 21, 2022.
  14. ↑ MC-3697
  15. ↑ "The auto mapping code can be used to share custom paintings and books in the future. There's a hard cap on 65536 of each/world, though" – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), April 26, 2011
  16. ↑ "The original (never publicly shared before) screenshot that Kristoffer Zetterstrand took and based his painting on." (archived) – Imgur.
  17. ↑ https://pastebin.com/fzAY9ES4
  18. ↑ "The original screenshot & seed of the Minecraft "Skull on Fire" painting has been found! [Minecraft@Home]" – u/Tomlacko on Reddit, September 10, 2020
  19. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110110003612/http://www.webhallen.com:80/minecraft/
  20. ↑ https://www.planetminecraft.com/texture-pack/pixeludi-pack-texture-pack-compo-winner/
  21. ↑ a b c d e "Minecraft is turning 15 this year, and to celebrate, we’re adding 15 new paintings!

    Coming to testing soon πŸ–ΌοΈ"
    – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X (formerly Twitter), April 30, 2024
  22. ↑ a b "Art collectors, rejoice!

    Decorate your home with five new Minecraft paintings, from blocky baroque to even blockier landscapes.

    Now available on Bedrock Beta/Preview (coming soon to Java Snapshot)"
    – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X (formerly Twitter), April 10, 2024
  23. ↑ "Minecraft Java Edition 1.21" – Minecraft.net, June 13, 2024.
  24. ↑ ""Where'd my stack of diamonds go?"" – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X (formerly Twitter), August 7, 2024

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