Painting

Painting

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Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Drops	1 Painting

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Paintings are decorative entities that hang on walls. They have many different variants based on available space where they are placed.

Obtaining

Breaking

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:

• Arrow (it disappears upon hitting a painting)
• Egg
• Ender Pearl
• Fireball
• Llama Spit
• Shulker Bullet
• Small Fireball
• Snowball
• Trident
• Wind Charge
• Wither Skull
• Fishing Bobber

Crafting

Ingredients	[hide]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.

Trading

Villager	Probability		Villager wants	Player receives
	JE	BE
Master Shepherd	100%	100%	2 × Emerald	3 × Painting

Usage

Placement

All paintings as of the Tricky Trials update. Note that the 2 x 2 paintings on the far right are only obtainable via commands and the creative inventory.

Paintings can be placed on the sides of most solid blocks (including slabs, stairs, fences, walls, doors, trapdoors, fence gates, glass panes, iron bars, chains, etc), as well as some non-solid blocks such as signs, banners, pressure plates, bamboo shoots, and sculk veins.

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

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

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.

Canvases

There are 46 paintings in the game. 40 of the paintings were made by Kristoffer Zetterstrand, five 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
1 × 1 blocks (16 × 16 pixels)
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Paradisträd	Kristoffer Zetterstrand	“Paradisträd”	30 × 30 cm	Oil on linoleum	1997	Still life of two plants in pots. “Paradisträd” is Swedish for “jade plant”, which is a common name for the depicted species in Scandinavia.	plant
	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
	Meditative	Sarah Boeving	⸻				A version of Salvador Dali’s Meditative Rose. Its added stem references Minecraft’s removed rose.	meditative
1 × 2 blocks (16 × 32 pixels)
	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
	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 Sánchez Cotán.	graham
	Prairie Ride	Sarah Boeving	⸻				A version of Frederic Remington’s The Cowboy. Instead of a cowboy, it shows Noor riding a horse.	prairie_ride
2 × 1 blocks (32 × 16 pixels)
	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. Also there is an old man resting in the lower-right edge.	pool
	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
	sunset_dense	Kristoffer Zetterstrand	“Sunset dense”	61 × 82 cm	Oil on MDF	2003	A view of mountains at sunset.	sunset
	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
	Creebet	Kristoffer Zetterstrand					The same painting as Seaside, but the bright-colored plant was replaced with a Creeper head.	creebet
2 × 2 blocks (32 × 32 pixels)
	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
	Bust	Kristoffer Zetterstrand	“Bust”	20 × 20 cm	Egg tempera and oil on canvas	2009	A bust of Marcus Aurelius surrounded by fire.	bust
	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
	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
	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
	Wither	Mojang (Jens Bergensten)	⸻				The creation of the wither. This is the first painting in Minecraft that is not based on a real painting. (See the trivia section for more info.)	wither
	Baroque	Sarah Boeving	⸻				A decorated pot, a cake, and a sunflower on a dark background, resembling Baroque painting.	baroque
	Humble	Sarah Boeving	⸻				A version of Grant Wood’s American Gothic, where two villagers are in front of a village house.	humble
3 × 3 blocks (48 × 48 pixels)
	Bouquet	Kristoffer Zetterstrand	​				A bouquet of flowers next to a stairway with a person sitting beside it.	bouquet
	Cavebird	Kristoffer Zetterstrand	​				A cave in a cliff with a bird flying overhead.	cavebird
	Cotán	Kristoffer Zetterstrand	“The abyss”	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 Sánchez Cotán.	cotan
	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
	Fern	Kristoffer Zetterstrand	[1]	​			A potted fern on a desk with a small fire.	fern
	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
	Sunflowers	Kristoffer Zetterstrand	​				Some potted plants on a table with a two-dimensional sunflower.	sunflowers
	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
3 × 4 blocks (48 × 64 pixels)
	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. The figures on the right are from Jacques-Louis David’s Oath of the Horatii.	backyard
	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
4 × 2 blocks (64 × 32 pixels)
	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. The backdrop is based on the painting Indian Summer, Vermont by Willard Metcalf.	fighters
	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.	changing
	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
	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.	lowmist
	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
4 × 3 blocks (64 × 48 pixels)
	Mortal Coil	Kristoffer Zetterstrand	“Mortal Coil”	[unkn.]	Oil on panel	2003	Bruno Martinez from the adventure video game Grim Fandango.	skeleton
	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
4 × 4 blocks (64 × 64 pixels)
	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.	pointer
	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
	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, with the grass block and the three-dimensional skull added on top. The actual painting was added in Beta 1.3. (See the trivia section for more info.)	burning_skull
	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.	orb
	Unpacked	Sarah Boeving	⸻				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

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 data pack. They can also be obtained directly from the Operator Utilities tab in the Creative inventory.‌

According to Helen Zbihlyj, 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, but is credited to Mojang on their debut to Java Edition.

Painting	Name	Artist	Description	Resource location
2 × 2 blocks (32 × 32 pixels)
	Earth	Mojang (Unknown Artist)	One of the four classical elements: Earth.	earth
	Wind	Mojang (Unknown Artist)	One of the four classical elements: Air.	wind
	Fire	Mojang (Unknown Artist)	One of the four classical elements: Fire.	fire
	Water	Mojang (Unknown Artist)	One of the four classical elements: Water.	water

Sounds

Java Edition

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Painting broken	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:

[hide]Sounds
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	[hide]Translation key
Painting	painting	Item	item.minecraft.painting

Entity	Identifier	[hide]Translation key
Painting	painting	entity.minecraft.painting

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	[hide]Translation key
Painting	painting	357	Item	item.painting.name

Entity	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Painting	painting	83	entity.painting.name

Entity data

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

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]
  • Tags common to all block entities that can hang from blocks see Template:Nbt inherit/hangable/template[show]
  • except for the tag: Facing
  • [Byte] facing: The direction the painting faces: 0 is south, 1 is west, 2 is north, 3 is east
  • [String] variant​: One painting variant (an [String] ID)
  • [String][NBT Compound / JSON Object] variant‌: One painting variant (an [String] ID, or a new [NBT Compound / JSON Object] painting variant definition)
    • A painting variant see Template:Nbt inherit/painting variant/template[show]

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Item data

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.
    • See Entity format. Must include id tag.
  • [String] minecraft:painting/variant​: One painting variant (an [String] ID) — The variant of the painting
  • [String][NBT Compound / JSON Object] minecraft:painting/variant‌: One painting variant (an [String] ID, or a new [NBT Compound / JSON Object] painting variant definition) — The variant of the painting
    • A painting variant see Template:Nbt inherit/painting variant/template[show]

Bedrock Edition:

JSON format

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

History

[hide]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. [show]Recipe }
							Painting textures are currently stored on a texture atlas called kz.png.
[hide]Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1414							The crafting recipe of paintings has been changed, so that it now uses sticks, rather than planks. [show]Recipe }
[hide]Java Edition Alpha
v1.1.1							Added five more painting canvases, for a total of 24.
							The textures of two paintings have been changed.
[hide]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.
[hide]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.
1.12			17w06a				Paintings now have a more intuitive placement system. When placed, a painting always uses the maximum possible amount of available space.
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 be added through a data pack, or with the /summon command.
1.19.4			23w06a				Added 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.
1.20.5			23w51a				Changed the subtitle for breaking a painting from "Painting breaks" to "Painting broken".
1.21			24w18a				Added twenty new paintings: "Meditative", "Praire Ride", "Baroque", "Humble", "Unpacked", "Backyard", "Bouquet", "Cavebird", "Changing", "Cotán", "Endboss", "Fern", "Finding", "Lowmist", "Orb", "Owlemons", "Passage", "Pond", "Sunflowers" and, "Tides".
1.21.2			24w33a				Paintings are no longer destroyed by TNT that explodes in water.
[hide]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.​
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.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.0.7							Added new painting canvas 'Wither'.
[hide]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.
1.21.0 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.21.0.21				Added five new paintings: "Meditative", "Praire Ride", "Baroque", "Humble", and "Unpacked".
1.21.0			Preview 1.21.0.22				All the paintings mentioned above are now available without using the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
			Preview 1.21.0.24				Added fifteen new paintings: "Backyard", "Bouquet", "Cavebird", "Changing", "Cotán", "Endboss", "Fern", "Finding", "Lowmist", "Orb", "Owlemons", "Passage", "Pond", "Sunflowers" and "Tides".
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added paintings.
							There are currently 25 canvases, which can be viewed at Legacy Console Edition history of textures/Paintings.
TU10							Reaching the maximum number of item frames/paintings in a world now prevents the player from placing more of them instead of removing existing ones.
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'.
TU41	CU30	1.33	1.33	1.33	Patch 11		Only up to 100 item frames and paintings can now be rendered on the screen at once.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Added sounds for paintings.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Added four 1×1 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.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Paintings now have a more intuitive placement system. When placed, a painting always uses the maximum possible amount of available space.
			1.90				The item texture of paintings has been changed.
[hide]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.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.11			16w32a				The entity ID for paintings has been changed from Painting to painting.
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 321.​
			18w02a				Paintings now use a resource location for their motive.

April Fools paintings

Java Edition 24w14potato

These paintings exist only in 24w14potato:

Painting	Name	Artist	Size	Resource location
	Tasty Shapes	Mr. Potato (Unknown Artist)	2 × 2 blocks (32 × 32 pixels)	abtsractato
	Self Portrait	Mr. Potato (Unknown Artist)	2 × 3 blocks (32 × 48 pixels)	mr_potato
	Potato	Cris B (Unknown Artist)	4 × 2 blocks (64 × 32 pixels)	potatoe
	In The Spotlight	Mr. Potato (Unknown Artist)	3 × 3 blocks (48 × 48 pixels)	ubiquitato
	Hot Potato	Mr. Potato (Unknown Artist)	4 × 4 blocks (64 × 64 pixels)	burning_potato
	This is not a potato	Mr. Potato (Unknown Artist)	8 × 4 blocks (128 × 64 pixels)	ceci
	The Treachery of Potatoes	Mr. Potato (Unknown Artist)	8 × 8 blocks (128 × 128 pixels)	poisonous_potato

Issues

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

Trivia

• On April 26, 2011, Notch stated that the automapping code can be used to share custom paintings and books in the future.
• 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).
  • The seeds for this world are -1044887956651363087 and -6984854390176336655 (both are the same), standing at X=-249.65, Y=91, Z=-29.04.
• 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.
• The "Wither" painting was the first painting to be painted by someone other than Kristoffer Zetterstrand, instead being made by Jens Bergensten.
• On Minecraft's 15th birthday, 15 new paintings were added.
• The "Unpacked" painting's pig was scaled up by Sarah Boeving in order for it to pop out for in the painting.
• The "Backyard" painting contains a swear word in the unpixelated version.

Gallery

Renders

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  Albanian

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  de_aztec

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  de_aztec

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  Target Successfully Bombed

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  Kebab med tre pepperoni

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  Paradisträd

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  Wasteland

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  Meditative

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  Bonjour Monsieur Courbet

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  Creebet

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  The Pool

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  Seaside

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  sunset_dense

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  Graham

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  Wanderer

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  Prairie Ride

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  Bust

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  Match

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  Skull and Roses

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  The Stage Is Set

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  The void

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  Wither

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  Baroque

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  Humble

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  Bouquet

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  Cavebird

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  Cotán

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  Endboss

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  Fern

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  Owlemons

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  Sunflowers

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  Tides

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  Backyard

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  Pond

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  Fighters

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  Changing

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  Finding

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  Lowmist

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  Passage

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  Kong

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  Mortal Coil

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  Skull On Fire

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  Pigscene

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  Pointer

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  Orb

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  Unpacked

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  Earth

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  Fire

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  Water

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  Wind

Screenshots

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  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.

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  Prairie Ride, with Noor for reference.

Mojang screenshots

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  The first image of paintings released by Notch.

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  Screenshot by Kristoffer Zetterstrand of the first test of paintings.

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  The original screenshot behind the "Skull on Fire" painting.

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  A render of the "Skull on Fire" painting that Kristoffer Zetterstrand used as a reference image.

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  The "Skull on Fire" skull render being sketched.

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  The original "Skull on Fire" painting being painted. "The Passage" (2010) added in 1.21 can be seen in the back left.

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  Paintings in a cave.

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  First photo of the paintings added in Bedrock Edition Preview 1.21.0.21.

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  Ditto, but less cropped

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  Second image of the paintings.

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  Unpacked.

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  Prairie Ride.

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  Medidative.

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  Humble.

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  Baroque.

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  Two of the fifteenth anniversary paintings.

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  Three of the fifteenth anniversary paintings.

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  Two more of the fifteenth anniversary paintings.

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  Three more of the fifteenth anniversary paintings.

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  Noor staring at many paintings in a gallery.

Concept Art

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  Baroque painting iterations.

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  Ditto.

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  Unpacked painting iterations.

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  Ditto.

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  Ditto.

In other media

• Ari phasing through Prairie Ride.

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  Wanderer as it appears in A Minecraft Movie.

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  Moonlight Installation as it appears in A Minecraft Movie.

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  Wither as it appears in A Minecraft Movie.

See also

• Item Frame
• Unused paintings
• Kz.png
• Paintings.png-atlas
• Kristoffer Zetterstrand
• Sarah Boeving
• Jens Bergensten

External links

• Taking Inventory: Painting – Minecraft.net on January 18, 2019