Painting

Paintings are decorative entities that hang on walls.
== Obtaining ==
=== Crafting ===
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 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.
Paintings are non-flammable.
== Canvases ==
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 blocks16×16 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
 	1×1 blocks16×16 pixels	"de_aztec" 	de_aztec 	aztec 	Free-look perspective of the map de_aztec from the video game Counter-Strike. 	Indev 20100223
 	1×1 blocks16×16 pixels	"de_aztec" 	de_aztec 	aztec2 	Free-look perspective of the map de_aztec from the video game Counter-Strike. 	Indev 20100223
 	3x4 blocks
48x64 pixels	 	Backyard 	 	 	Indev 20100223
 	3x4 blocks
48x64 pixels	 	Pond 	 	 	Indev 20100223
 	1×1 blocks16×16 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. 	Indev 20100223
 	1×1 blocks16×16 pixels	"Kebab med tre pepperoni" 	Kebab med tre pepperoni 	kebab 	A kebab with three green chili peppers. 	Indev 20100223
 	1×1 blocks16×16 pixels	"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. 	Indev 20100223
 	1×1 blocks16×16 pixels	 	Meditative 	 	 	Indev 20100223
 	1×1 blocks16×16 pixels	"Wasteland" 	Wasteland 	wasteland 	A view of some wastelands; a small animal (presumably a rabbit) is sitting on the window ledge. 	Indev 20100223
 	2×1 blocks32×16 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". 	Indev 20100223
 	2×1 blocks32×16 pixels	"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. 	
 	2×1 blocks32×16 pixels	"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
 	2×1 blocks32×16 pixels	"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
 	2×1 blocks32×16 pixels	"sunset_dense" 	sunset_dense 	sunset 	A view of mountains at sunset. 	Indev 20100223
 	1×2 blocks16×32 pixels	"Graham" 	Graham 	graham 	King Graham, the player character in the video game series King's Quest. The original is based on by Juan Sánchez Cotán. 	Alpha v1.1.1
 	1×2 blocks16×32 pixels	"Wanderer" 	Wanderer 	wanderer 	A version of Caspar David Friedrich's famous painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. 	Indev 20100223
 	1×2 blocks16×32 pixels	 	Prairie Ride 	 	 	Indev 20100223
 	2×2 blocks32×32 pixels	"Bust" 	Bust 	bust 	A bust of Marcus Aurelius surrounded by fire. 	Indev 20100223
 	2×2 blocks32×32 pixels	"Match" 	Match 	match 	A hand holding a match, causing fire on a white cubic gas fireplace. 	Indev 20100223
 	2×2 blocks32×32 pixels	"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. 	Indev 20100223
 	2×2 blocks32×32 pixels	"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
 	2×2 blocks32×32 pixels	"The Void" 	The void 	void 	An angel praying into a void with fire below. 	Indev 20100223
128px 	2×2 blocks32×32 pixels	– 	Wither 	wither 	The creation of a wither. 
This is the only painting not based on a real painting. Made by Jens Bergensten.https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1tzav2/comment/cedagcy/ 	Java Edition 1.4.2 (12w36a)
 	2×2 blocks32×32 pixels	 	Baroque 	 	 	
 	2×2 blocks32×32 pixels	 	Humble 	 	 	
 	4×2 blocks64×32 pixels	"Fighters" 	Fighters 	fighters 	Two men poised to fight. Paper versions of fighters from the game International Karate +. 	Indev 20100223
 	4×2 blocks64×32 pixels	 	Changing 	 	 	
 	4×2 blocks64×32 pixels	 	Finding 	 	 	
 	4×2 blocks64×32 pixels	 	Lowmist 	 	 	
 	4×2 blocks64×32 pixels	 	Passage 	 	 	
 	3x3 blocks
48×48 pixels	 	Bouquet 	 	 	
 	3x3 blocks
48×48 pixels	 	Cavebird 	 	 	
 	3x3 blocks
48×48 pixels	 	Cotan 	 	 	
 	3x3 blocks
48×48 pixels	 	Endboss 	 	 	
 	3x3 blocks
48×48 pixels	 	Fern 	 	 	
 	3x3 blocks
48×48 pixels	 	Owlemons 	 	 	
 	3x3 blocks
48×48 pixels	 	Sunflowers 	 	 	
 	3x3 blocks
48×48 pixels	 	Tides 	 	 	
 	4×3 blocks64×48 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 blocks64×48 pixels	"Mortal Coil" 	Mortal Coil 	skeleton 	Bruno Martinez from the adventure game Grim Fandango. 	Alpha v1.1.1
128px 	4×4 blocks64×64 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, with the grass block and a 3D skull added on top.
(See the trivia section for more info.) 	Beta 1.2_01 / Beta 1.3
 	4×4 blocks64×64 pixels	"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 by Jacob van Oost.	Alpha v1.1.1
 	4×4 blocks64×64 pixels	"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
 	4×4 blocks64×64 pixels	 	Unpacked 	 	 	
 	4×4 blocks64×64 pixels	 	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 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 ) or through a datapack.
According to Helen Zbihlyj,https://old.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/u8hpnx/thoughts_on_the_new_paintings/i5olue6/?context=3 (archived) 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.
Canvas	Size 	Name 	Resource location	Description 	Bedrock Edition version added	Java Edition version added
 	2×2 blocks32×32 pixels	Earth	earth 	One of the four : Earth. 	v0.5.0 alpha 	22w16a
 	2×2 blocks32×32 pixels	Fire 	fire 	One of the four classical elements: Fire. 	v0.5.0 alpha 	22w16a
 	2×2 blocks32×32 pixels	Water	water 	One of the four classical elements: Water.	v0.5.0 alpha 	22w16a
 	2×2 blocks32×32 pixels	Wind 	wind 	One of the four classical elements: Air. 	v0.5.0 alpha 	22w16a
==Sounds==
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== Data values ==
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=== Entity data ===
Paintings have entity data that defines various properties of the entity.
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== Video ==
== History ==
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== Issues ==
== 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.https://pastebin.com/fzAY9ES4https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/iqg3ey/the_original_screenshot_seed_of_the_minecraft/
* 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.https://web.archive.org/web/20110110003612/http://www.webhallen.com:80/minecraft/
== Gallery ==
File:Notch Painting Screenshot.png|The first image of paintings released by Notch.
File:Skull on Fire world.jpg|The original screenshot behind the "Skull on Fire" painting.
File:Burning Skull Render.jpg|A render of the "Skull on Fire" painting that Kristoffer Zetterstrand used as a reference image.
File:Skull on Fire IRL.jpg|The original "Skull on Fire" painting being painted.
File:Burning Skull JE1.png|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.
=== Renders ===
Alban.png | Albanian
Aztec.png | de_aztec
Aztec2.png | de_aztec
Bomb.png | Target Successfully Bombed
Kebab.png | Kebab med tre pepperoni
Plant.png | Paradisträd
Wasteland.png | Wasteland
Courbet.png | Bonjour Monsieur Courbet
Creebet.png | Creebet
Pool.png | The Pool
Sea.png | Seaside
Sunset.png | sunset_dense
Graham.png | Graham
Wanderer.png | Wanderer
Bust.png | Bust
Match.png | Match
Skull and Roses.png | Skull and Roses
Stage.png | The Stage Is Set
Void.png | The void
Wither (painting).png | Wither
Fighters.png | Fighters
Donkey Kong.png | Kong
Skeleton (painting).png | Mortal Coil
Burning Skull.png | Skull On Fire
Pigscene.png | Pigscene
Pointer.png | Pointer
Earth BE2.png | Earth
Fire BE2.png | Fire
Water BE2.png | Water
Wind BE2.png | Wind
== See also ==
* Item Frame
* Unused paintings
* Kz.png
* Kristoffer Zetterstrand
== References ==
== External links ==
*Taking Inventory: Painting – Minecraft.net on January 18, 2019
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