Painting

Paintings are decorative entities that hang on walls.

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Stick + Any Wool

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. Once placed, it displays a random painting.

Breaking[]

To remove a painting from a wall, the player can attack it, break one of its supporting blocks, cover one square of it with a block, hit it with an arrow, egg, ender pearl, snowball, or fire charge, or subject it to an explosion. The painting then drops as an item. Arrows that hit paintings disappear.

Trading[]

Master-level shepherd villagers sell 3 paintings for 2 emeralds.

Usage[]

Placement[]

Paintings can be placed on the sides of solid blocks, signs, banners, or sculk veins. A small gap is visible between the painting and attachment surface. There are several different sizes of paintings (see below). When placed, a painting checks for the largest amount of space it has. It then chooses a random painting of that size. The player can add blocks around the painting to ensure it is the size wanted. When the supporting blocks are removed, the painting breaks after 20 game ticks (1 second) if no supporting blocks are replaced during that interval.

Properties[]

Being an entity, paintings can simultaneously exist in the same space as blocks such as water or torches. Specifically, they can share the space with any block whose collision box does not intersect its hitbox.

Players and mobs are able to walk through paintings, as long as the blocks supporting the painting allow it. Secret doorways can be created this way. Light propagates through paintings as well.

If a player is concealed behind a painting, the player's name is also concealed from other players.^[verify]

Paintings are non-flammable.

Canvases[]

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There are 31 paintings in the game. These are mostly based on paintings by Kristoffer Zetterstrand, who also created the Minecraft versions.

Canvas	Size	Original	Name	Resource location	Description	Java Edition version added
	1×1 blocks 16×16 pixels	"Albanian"	Albanian	`alban`	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.	Indev 20100223
		"de_aztec"	de_aztec	`aztec`	Free-look perspective of the map de_aztec from the video game Counter-Strike.
		"de_aztec"	de_aztec	`aztec2`	Free-look perspective of the map de_aztec from the video game Counter-Strike.
	3x4 blocks 48x64 pixels	[1]	Backyard
	3x4 blocks 48x64 pixels		Pond
	1×1 blocks 16×16 pixels	"Target successfully bombed"	Target Successfully Bombed	`bomb`	The map de_dust2 from the video game Counter-Strike, named “target successfully bombed" in reference to the game.
		"Kebab med tre pepperoni"	Kebab med tre pepperoni	`kebab`	A kebab with three green chili peppers.
		"Paradisträd"	Paradisträd	`plant`	Still life of two plants in pots. "Paradisträd" is Swedish for "money tree", which is a common name for the depicted species in Scandinavia.
			Meditative
		"Wasteland"	Wasteland	`wasteland`	A view of some wastelands; a small animal (presumably a rabbit) is sitting on the window ledge.
	2×1 blocks 32×16 pixels	"Bonjour monsieur Courbet"	Bonjour Monsieur Courbet	`courbet`	Two hikers with pointy beards seemingly greeting each other. Based on Gustave Courbet's painting The Meeting or "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet".
		"The pool"	The Pool	`pool`	Some men and women skinny-dipping in a pool over a cube of sorts. Also there is an old man resting in the lower-right edge.
		"Seaside"	Seaside	`sea`	Mountains and a lake, with a small photo of a mountain and a bright-colored plant on the window ledge.	Indev 20100223 / Alpha v1.1.1
		"Seaside"	Creebet	`creebet`	Mountains and a lake, with a small photo of a mountain and a creeper looking at the viewer through a window.	Alpha v1.1.1
		"sunset_dense"	sunset_dense	`sunset`	A view of mountains at sunset.	Indev 20100223
	1×2 blocks 16×32 pixels	"Graham"	Graham	`graham`	King Graham, the player character in the video game series King's Quest. The original is based on Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber by Juan Sánchez Cotán.	Alpha v1.1.1
		"Wanderer"	Wanderer	`wanderer`	A version of Caspar David Friedrich's famous painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog.	Indev 20100223
			Prairie Ride
	2×2 blocks 32×32 pixels	"Bust"	Bust	`bust`	A bust of Marcus Aurelius surrounded by fire.
		"Match"	Match	`match`	A hand holding a match, causing fire on a white cubic gas fireplace.
		"Moonlight Installation"	Skull and Roses	`skull_and_roses`	A skeleton at night with red flowers in the foreground. The original painting was different, depicting a woman sitting in a couch, while the skull is in the middle of a body of glacial water of sorts.
		"The stage is set"	The Stage Is Set	`stage`	Scenery from Space Quest I, with the character Graham from the video game series King's Quest appearing twice.	Indev 20100223 / Alpha v1.1.1
		"The Void"	The void	`void`	An angel praying into a void with fire below.	Indev 20100223
		–	Wither	`wither`	The creation of a wither. This is the only painting not based on a real painting. Made by Jens Bergensten.^[1]^[2]	Java Edition 1.4.2 (12w36a)
			Baroque
			Humble
	4×2 blocks 64×32 pixels	"Fighters"	Fighters	`fighters`	Two men poised to fight. Paper versions of fighters from the game International Karate +.	Indev 20100223
			Changing
			Finding
			Lowmist
			Passage
	3x3 blocks 48×48 pixels		Bouquet
			Cavebird
			Cotan
			Endboss
			Fern
			Owlemons
			Sunflowers
			Tides
	4×3 blocks 64×48 pixels	"Kong"	Kong	`donkey_kong`	A paper-looking screenshot of the level 100m from the arcade game Donkey Kong.	Alpha v1.1.1
	4×3 blocks 64×48 pixels	"Mortal Coil"	Mortal Coil	`skeleton`	Bruno Martinez from the adventure game Grim Fandango.	Alpha v1.1.1
	4×4 blocks 64×64 pixels	"Skull on Fire"	Skull On Fire	`burning_skull`	A Skull on fire; in the background there is a moon in a clear night sky. This painting is based on a Minecraft screenshot,^[3] with the grass block and a 3D skull added on top.^[4] (See the trivia section for more info.)	Beta 1.2_01 / Beta 1.3
		"RGB"	Pigscene	`pigscene`	A girl pointing to a pig on a canvas. In the original version, the canvas showed red, green and blue blocks, representing the three colors of the RGB color model that is typically used by computer displays. It is based on the painting The Artist's Studio by Jacob van Oost.	Alpha v1.1.1
		"Pointer"	Pointer	`pointer`	The main character of the 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.	Indev 20100223
			Unpacked
			Orb
TBA	Pack \|\| `pack` \|\| Reference to the pack.png fi \|\| Java Edition 1.21le

Unused paintings[]

In v0.5.0 alpha, with the addition of paintings to Pocket Edition, four unused 32×32 paintings were present in kz.png which remained unused. See Bedrock Edition unused features § Paintings for more information. They were also added to Java Edition in snapshot 22w16a. They cannot be placed by default, but can be summoned by commands (such as /summon painting ~ ~ ~ {variant:"water"}) or through a datapack.

According to Helen Zbihlyj,^[5] these paintings were originally added "as part of a Pocket Edition promo map" (no footage found) which was planned to be a part of Pocket Edition promotion at MINECON 2012 or 2013 and have never been used in game. The artist of these paintings remains unknown.

Size	Name	Resource location	Description	Bedrock Edition version added	Java Edition version added
2×2 blocks 32×32 pixels	Earth	`earth`	One of the four classical elements: Earth.	v0.5.0 alpha	22w16a
	Fire	`fire`	One of the four classical elements: Fire.
	Water	`water`	One of the four classical elements: Water.
	Wind	`wind`	One of the four classical elements: Air.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Painting breaks^[6]	Friendly Creatures	When a painting is broken or pops off	`entity.painting.break`	`subtitles.entity.painting.break`	1.0	1.0	16
	Painting placed	Friendly Creatures	When a painting is placed	`entity.painting.place`	`subtitles.entity.painting.place`	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When a painting is broken or pops off	`block.itemframe.break`	1.0	1.0
	Blocks	When a painting is placed	`block.itemframe.add_item`	1.0	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Item	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Painting	`painting`	Item	`item.minecraft.painting`

Entity	Identifier	Translation key
Painting	`painting`	`entity.minecraft.painting`

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Painting	`painting`	`357`	Item	`item.painting.name`

Entity	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Painting	`painting`	`83`	`entity.painting.name`

Entity data[]

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

Java Edition:

Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all hangables
- variant: The resource location for the the painting variant.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Video[]

History[]

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Java Edition Indev

20100223 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.

Recipe

Painting textures are currently stored on a texture atlas called kz.png.

Java Edition Infdev

20100227-1

The crafting recipe has of paintings has been changed, so that it now uses sticks, rather than planks.

Recipe

Java Edition Alpha

v1.1.1 Added five more painting canvases, for a total of 24.

The textures of two paintings have been changed.

Java Edition Beta

1.2_01 Added a new painting, although it uses an untextured part of kz.png due to the painting texture not yet being implemented.

1.3 The texture of the new painting, has been added to the part of kz.png displayed by the new painting.

April 27, 2011 Custom paintings are mentioned by Notch.

1.7.3 Paintings pushed by pistons now pop off.

Java Edition

1.4.2 12w36a Added new painting canvas 'Wither'.

Paintings can now be placed overlapping one another.

1.8 14w10a Paintings can no longer be placed directly inside of each other.

1.9 15w49a Paintings can no longer be destroyed by lightning.

15w50a Added sounds for placing and breaking paintings: entity.painting.place and entity.painting.break.

1.11 16w32a The entity ID for paintings has been changed from Painting to painting.

1.12 17w06a Paintings now have a more intuitive placement system. When placed, a painting always uses the maximum possible amount of available space.

1.13 17w47a Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 321.

18w02a Paintings now use a resource location for their motive.

1.14 18w43a The item texture of paintings has been changed.

19w07a Paintings are now stored as individual image files instead of parts of a single large image file, and now support animations.

19w11a Shepherd villagers now sell paintings.

1.17 21w11a The painting back texture has been updated to be in line with the texture update.

1.19 22w16a Added the four unused paintings from Bedrock Edition: "Earth", "Wind", "Fire", and "Water".

These paintings can only be added through a data pack, or with the /summon command.

1.19.4 23w06a Added painting variants to "Functional Blocks" tab.

Paintings with pre-defined variant will 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.

1.21 TBA Added 20 new paintings, one 1x1, one 2x1, two 2x2s, eight 3x3s, two 3x4s, four 4x2s and two 4x4s

Pocket Edition Alpha

v0.5.0 Added paintings.

There are currently 25 canvases, which can be viewed at Bedrock Edition history of textures/Paintings.

v0.8.0 build 3 A new painting rendering has been added.^{[more information needed]}

v0.12.1 build 1 Paintings are no longer available from the nether reactor.

v0.15.0 build 1 Paintings now have sounds when placed and broken.

Pocket Edition

1.0.7 Added new painting canvas 'Wither'.

Bedrock Edition

1.10.0 beta 1.10.0.3 The item texture of paintings has been changed.

1.11.0 beta 1.11.0.4 Paintings can now be bought from shepherd villagers.

1.17.0 beta 1.17.0.50 The painting back texture has been updated to be in line with the texture update.

Legacy Console Edition

TU1 CU1 1.0 Patch 1 1.0.1 Added paintings.

There are currently 25 canvases, which can be viewed at Legacy Console Edition history of textures/Paintings.

TU11 The limit for paintings in a world has been increased.

A message is now displayed when the maximum paintings are reached.

TU14 1.04 Added new painting canvas 'Wither'.

TU43 CU33 1.36 Patch 13 Added sounds for paintings.

1.90 The item texture of paintings has been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

0.1.0 Added paintings.

There are currently 25 canvases, which can be viewed at New Nintendo 3DS Edition history of textures/Paintings.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Painting" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

On April 26, 2011, Notch stated that the automapping code can be used to share custom paintings and books in the future.^[7]
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).^[8]
- The seeds for this world are -1044887956651363087 and -6984854390176336655 (both are the same), standing at X=-249.65, Y=91, Z=-29.04.^[9]^[10]
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 the winner of an official texture pack competition by Mojang.^[11]

Gallery[]

The first image of paintings released by Notch.
The original screenshot behind the "Skull on Fire" painting.
A render of the "Skull on Fire" painting that Kristoffer Zetterstrand used as a reference image.
The original "Skull on Fire" painting being painted.
The "Skull on Fire" painting as it appeared between versions Beta 1.2_01 and Beta 1.2_02, prior to its texture being added in Beta 1.3.