Joy of Painting

Unleash Your Creative Potential in Minecraft

The Joy of Painting mod opens up a world of artistic creativity right in Minecraft! Create your own paintings that can be placed on walls like regular decorative canvases.

Main Features

The color mixing system works on the same principles as leather armor dyeing in vanilla game. You can create paintings of various sizes and shapes, use brushes of different thickness, and adjust stroke transparency. All 16 million colors are available - the only limitation is your ability to mix them!

• Creation and placement of paintings on walls
• Various brush sizes and canvas dimensions
• Full palette for color mixing
• Undo actions with CTRL+Z combination
• View paintings in inventory and in hands
• Pleasant sound effects while painting
• Color picker tool from ready palettes
• Brush transparency adjustment
• Easels for convenient painting

New Features in Version 1.17.1-0.6

Added easels - simply right-click with a palette to start painting on a placed easel.

Introduced import and export functionality for paintings using commands (/paintexport <filename> and /paintimport <filename>). This allows transferring paintings between worlds and servers. Files are saved in the "paintings" folder within the Minecraft directory.

Added brush transparency control, allowing color mixing directly on the canvas! Interface elements can now be moved, and helpful tooltips assist with understanding the functionality.

New Features in Version 1.16.4-1.1

Added a color picker tool for filled palettes. Simply click the corresponding icon, then click and hold on the desired color on the canvas to add it to custom color slots.

Also added sound effects - painting has become much more interesting!

How to Use the Mod

Start by creating a palette and canvas (crafting recipes are provided below). For the palette, any combination of dyes will work, but at least one is required. You can supplement the palette with other dyes later.

Four types of canvases are available: basic (1×1 block), as well as 1×2, 2×1, and 2×2 block variants. Right-clicking with a canvas allows viewing its content, with a palette - opening the color mixing interface.

Holding a canvas in one hand and a palette in the other opens both interfaces simultaneously, allowing you to paint. An alternative method is to place the canvas on an easel and use the palette on it.

Change brush size or transparency using the mouse wheel or by clicking interface elements. After completing a painting, place it on a wall like a regular decorative canvas. Signed paintings become unchangeable but can be copied by crafting them together with an empty canvas of the same size.

Crafting Recipes

To create a palette, at least one dye is required:

An existing palette can be supplemented with other dyes:

Signed paintings can be copied:

Easel crafting:

Technical Features

Note about Forge/Neoforge compatibility after version 1.21:

Starting from Minecraft 1.21, only the Fabric version is available, which can be used on Neoforge with Sinytra connector and Forgified fabric api. Other Forge versions will not be supported.

The latest mod versions (1.18.2, 1.19.2 and above) usually work with custom shaders, but compatibility with all shaders cannot be guaranteed.