Paintings have been a staple feature in Minecraft for quite a while now. Their main purpose is for decoration - players can put paintings up to give their base a more "homely" feel. In this article, we are going to showcase how to make all paintings in Minecraft 1.19.

1. About paintings in Minecraft

Currently, paintings in Minecraft do not spawn naturally anywhere in the world - players need to craft them. There are 26 paintings in the game currently, and every time a painting is placed, one of the 26 images is chosen. For some reason, paintings that face towards the north or south sides in Minecraft appear brighter than those facing east or west.

paintings in Minecraft
Decoration with paintings in Minecraft

Outside of decoration purposes, paintings are most commonly used to conceal a secret entrance to the player's secret base. Players and mobs are able to walk through paintings, as long as the blocks supporting the painting allow it.

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

2. How to make paintings in Minecraft 1.19

Step 1: Prepare the ingredients

Paintings can be created fairly easily, as they do not require any rare block. The only things you need are 8 sticks and 1 piece of wool (any color). Players can acquire sticks using any 2 pieces of planks or bamboo. Wool, on the other hand, can only be harvested from sheep. Using shears on an adult sheep yields 1-3 wool.

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Step 2: Craft the painting

Open up the crafting table, place the wool piece in the middle then surround it with sticks. When placed correctly, a painting will appear in the small box.

Paintings Minecraft Recipe
Recipe for Paintings in Minecraft

Step 3: Place the painting

Just hold the painting in hand and place it where you want,

When placed, a painting would check 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. The paintings in Minecraft come in sizes of 1x1, 2x1, 2x2, 4x2, 4x3 and 4x4. If you want to create all paintings in Minecraft, place them based on the list in section 3.

3. List of all paintings in Minecraft

The 26 paintings in the game are mostly based on paintings by Kristoffer Zetterstrand, who also contributed to creating Minecraft.

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List of all paintings in the game.

1x1 paintings

Albaniana man wearing a fez stood next to a house and a bush
Target successfully bombedde_dust2 map from the video game Counter-Strike
Paradistradstill life painting of two plants in pots
Wastelandpainting of a view of some wastelands
de_azteca perspective of the map de_aztec from the video game Counter-Strike (there are two variations of this painting)
Kebab med tre pepperonia kebab with three chili peppers

2x1 paintings

The poolsome men and women skinny-dipping in a pool over a cube
Bonjour monsieur Courbettwo hikers with pointy beards seemingly greet each other
sunset-densea view of mountains at sunset
Seasidea view of mountains and a lake, with a small photo of a mountain and a plant on the window ledge (another version has a creeper instead of the plant)

1x2 paintings

Wanderera version of Caspar David Friedrich's famous painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
GrahamKing Graham, the character from King's Quest

2x2 paintings

Busta bust of Marcus Aurelius surrounded by pixelated fireMatch- a hand holding a match, lighting something on fire
Moonlight installationSkull and roses
The stage is setscenery from Space Quest I
Witherthe creation of the Wither, with the three skulls and soul sand
The voidan angel praying into a void

4x2 paintings

Fighterstwo pixelated men about to fight

4x3 paintings

Mortal Coilthe "Mean Midget" from Grim Fandango
KongDonkey Kong scene from the original game

4x4 paintings

RGBA girl painting a pig on a canvas
Pointera large hand pointing to a small, pixelated man
Skull on Firea burning skull

4. Q&A about Minecraft paintings

How do you make your own custom painting?

You can only make custom paintings with resource packs. However, you can use maps and item frames, and make pixel art in the area the map is covering to create something that looks like a painting - but it takes a very long time and a huge amount of blocks.

Can you get the same painting multiple times?

When placing a painting down, it is possible to get the same painting multiple times.

Can you create your own painting?

Not without modifying the game files. The painting is a preset image based on the size of the canvas. You can change the painting images by editing the texture files for the paintings. Minecraft Painter Maker is a popular web tool that will allow you to create new paintings.

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