Custom Paintings

Add your own custom paintings to Minecraft! Add as many as you like without being restricted to re-texturing vanilla paintings! Each painting can have a custom size and texture, and even name and artist labels. Using a custom "Painting Pack", add custom paintings to any world, even servers!

Out of the box, you'll also see a built-in pack containing the four elemental-themed paintings bundled in the game's assets that otherwise are not normally placeable. Enjoy your stylish Air, Earth, Fire, and Water paintings!

In order to better work with all the paintings in your game, this mod also creates a painting picker menu. Instead of the game placing a random choice every time, placing a painting will now open up a menu where you can choose a pack and painting, complete with search and filtering. Now you can place the exact painting you want first time, every time!

The mod also gives every painting its own custom item icon — both from your installed packs and from the vanilla variants! Each painting's artwork is scaled down and dressed up with a hanger and shadow to fit the standard 16×16 item shape, so you can tell what's what at a glance in your inventory, hotbar, and item frames. Heavily inspired by Vanilla Tweaks' "Unique Painting Items" resource pack. The custom-pack and vanilla rendering each have their own toggle in the client-side config.

Please note that _no_ new paintings are included in this mod. You need to supply your own! You can use this mod without adding and packs, and it'll still give access to the hidden paintings and the fancy new painting picker menu. However, if you're looking for a painting pack that supports this mod, check out my Famous Real Paintings pack that adds stylized representations of some of the worlds' most famous paintings from real life!

Adding a painting pack to your world

The simplest way to add a painting pack to your world is to drop it in the custompaintings folder inside the world save, i.e. .minecraft/saves/My Awesome World/custompaintings/FamousPaintings-1.0.zip. The pack can be in zip or folder form.

└── .minecraft/
    ├── config/
    ├── logs/
    ├── resourcepacks/
    ├── saves/
    │   └── My Awesome World/
    │       ├── advancements/
    │       ├── custompaintings/
    │       │   └── FamousPaintings-1.0.zip  ᐊ
    │       ├── data/
    │       ├── datapacks/
    │       ├── DIM1/
    │       ├── DIM-1/
    │       ├── entities/
    │       ├── playerdata/
    │       ├── poi/
    │       ├── region/
    │       ├── stats/
    │       └── level.dat
    ├── options.txt
    └── servers.dat

You can also add a pack to a world by open the mod's main menu (see below), navigating to the 'Manage Packs' screen, and dragging the pack zip file or folder onto your game window, similar to how you would do it with resource packs. The mod will take care of copying the files over and should automatically refresh the list for you to let you know it worked!

Creative inventory

Similar to vanilla paintings, all your custom paintings will show up in the creative inventory under functional blocks. The item models are all generated dynamically at runtime based on your supplied texture and painting dimensions to give a surprisingly high quality approximation of the painting! Heavily inspired by Vanilla Tweaks' "Unique Painting Items" resource pack. This functionality is toggleable via the config and config menu client side.

Stonecutter recipes

Based on the "Painting Picker" datapack from Vanilla Tweaks, all the unique items for your custom paintings will also be available as stonecutter recipes! Just pop in the generic/random painting item in the input and you'll be able to craft items bound to a specific painting, that will skip the UI and always place that variant! The same applies to vanilla painting variants — drop a generic painting in and pick the exact Kebab, Aztec, etc. you want, including the otherwise-unplaceable Air, Earth, Fire, and Water elementals. The custom-pack and vanilla recipes have their own toggles in the server-side/per-world config.