Painting
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Type |
Decorations |
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Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Data Value |
321 |
Paintings are simple, low-resolution versions of a Canvas. There are 26 Paintings available, ranging from single-block pieces to 4x4 block wall covers.
Crafting
| Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | |||||||||||
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| Painting | Shaft, Wool Block |
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Paintings can be crafted with any color of wool. The color of wool used does not have an influence of the picture chosen when the painting is placed.
Placement and Applications
Paintings their primary use is to serve as decoration, allowing the player add some style to the bland walls of their base. They can only be placed on flat, vertical surfaces. Certain blocks like Signs, Axles and doors are considered full blocks, allowing Paintings to be placed onto them. This allows the player to create secret passages or hide certain blocks. However, because of the painting's hitbox, the player cannot interact with objects behind a Painting. The player, mobs and dropped items can freely move through paitings though, since they have no collision. Because Paintings are technically entities instead of blocks, it's possible for them to exist in the same block as Water, Levers and torches. They also don't block any light.
Removal
Paintings will drop when any supporting block is removed. If hit with a throw-able item (such as a chicken egg, snowball, arrow, or fishing rod bobber), the painting will also drop from the wall. Arrows will disappear when they hit a painting. Lightning, Powder Kegs and Dynamite will also knock down paintings.
List
These are the 26 paintings in the game. They are mostly based on paintings by Kristoffer Zetterstrand, who also created the Minecraft versions.
| Canvas | Size | Original | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Painting 1x1 1.png | 1x1 blocks 16x16 pixels |
"Kebab med tre pepperoni" | Kebab | A kebab with three green chili peppers. |
| File:Painting 1x1 2.png | 1x1 blocks 16x16 pixels |
"de_aztec" | Aztec | Free-look perspective of the map de_aztec from the video game Counter-Strike. |
| File:Painting 1x1 3.png | 1x1 blocks 16x16 pixels |
"Albanian" | Alban | A man wearing a fez in a desert-type land stood next to a house and a bush. As the name of the painting suggests, it may be a landscape in Albania. However Albania is mostly snowy mountains and there are no "deserts", therefore making it impossible to be located in Albania. |
| File:Painting 1x1 4.png | 1x1 blocks 16x16 pixels |
"de_aztec" | Aztec2 | Free-look perspective of the map de_aztec from the video game Counter-Strike. |
| File:Painting 1x1 5.png | 1x1 blocks 16x16 pixels |
"Target successfully bombed" | Bomb | Painting of the Counter-Strike map de_dust2, named "target successfully bombed" in reference to the game. |
| File:Painting 1x1 6.png | 1x1 blocks 16x16 pixels |
"Paradisträd" | Plant | Still life painting of two plants in pots. "Paradisträd" is Swedish for "Paradise tree", which is a common name for the depicted species in Scandinavia. |
| File:Painting 1x1 7.png | 1x1 blocks 16x16 pixels |
"Wasteland" | Wasteland | Painting of a view of some wastelands; a small animal (presumably a rabbit) is sitting on the window ledge. |
| File:Painting 1x2 1.png | 1x2 blocks 16x32 pixels |
"Wanderer" | Wanderer | Painting of a man with a walking stick, traversing rocky plains. An "overdressed hiker", one might say. Reference to Romantic painter Casper David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. |
| File:Painting 1x2 2.png | 1x2 blocks 16x32 pixels |
"Graham" | Graham | A small picture of King Graham, the player character in the King's Quest series. |
| File:Painting 2x1 1.png | 2x1 blocks 32x16 pixels |
"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. |
| File:Painting 2x1 2.png | 2x1 blocks 32x16 pixels |
"Bonjour monsieur Courbet" | Courbet | Two hikers with pointy beards seemingly greeting each other. This painting is based on the realist painter Gustave Courbet's 1854 painting of the same title. |
| File:Painting 2x1 3.png | 2x1 blocks 32x16 pixels |
"Seaside" | Sea | Painting of a view of mountains and a lake, with a small photo of a mountain and a dull-colored plant on the window ledge. |
| File:Painting 2x1 4.png | 2x1 blocks 32x16 pixels |
"sunset_dense" | Sunset | Painting of a view of mountains at sunset. |
| File:Painting 2x1 5.png | 2x1 blocks 32x16 pixels |
"Seaside" | Creebet | Painting of a view of mountains and a lake, with a small photo of a mountain and a creeper looking at the viewer through a window. |
| File:Painting 2x2 1.png | 2x2 blocks 32x32 pixels |
"Match" | Match | A hand holding a match, causing pixelated fire on a white cubic gas fireplace. |
| File:Painting 2x2 2.png | 2x2 blocks 32x32 pixels |
"Bust" | Bust | Painting of a statue bust surrounded by pixelated fire. |
| File:Painting 2x2 3.png | 2x2 blocks 32x32 pixels |
"The stage is set" | Stage | Painting of scenery from Space Quest I, with the character Graham from King's Quest. |
| File:Painting 2x2 4.png | 2x2 blocks 32x32 pixels |
"The Void" | Void | Painting of an angel praying into what appears to be a void with pixelated fire below. |
| File:Painting 2x2 5.png | 2x2 blocks 32x32 pixels |
"Moonlight Installation" | SkullAndRoses | Painting of a skeleton at night with red flowers in the foreground. The original painting is very different, depicting a woman sitting in a couch, while the skull is in the middle of a body of glacial water of sorts. |
| File:Painting 2x2 6.png | 2x2 blocks 32x32 pixels |
N/a | Wither | Painting depicting the creation of a Wither. |
| File:Painting 4x2 1.png | 4x2 blocks 64x32 pixels |
"Fighters" | Fighters | Two pixelated men poised to fight. Paper versions of fighters from the game "International Karate+". |
| File:Painting 4x3 1.png | 4x3 blocks 64x48 pixels |
"Mortal Coil" | Skeleton | A painting of the "Mean Midget" from the adventure game Grim Fandango. |
| File:Painting 4x3 2.png | 4x3 blocks 64x48 pixels |
"Kong" | DonkeyKong | A paper-looking screenshot of the level 100 m. from the original "Donkey Kong" arcade game. |
| File:Painting 4x4 1.png | 4x4 blocks 64x64 pixels |
"Pointer" | Pointer | A painting of the main character of the classic Atari game International Karate (the Karateka character had white hair, this one clearly has black hair) fighting a large hand. It could also be interpreted as the two hands touching as seen in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel painting. |
| File:Painting 4x4 2.png | 4x4 blocks 64x64 pixels |
"RGB" | Pigscene | Painting of a girl that is pointing to a pig on a canvas. In the original version, the canvas shows a red, green and blue blocks, representing the three colors of the RGB color model that is typically used by computer displays. |
| File:Painting 4x4 3.png | 4x4 blocks 64x64 pixels |
"Skull on Fire" | Flaming Skull | A Skull on pixelated fire; in the background there is a moon in a clear night sky. |
Trivia
- Villagers can interact with doors hidden by paintings, easily giving away the secret.
- A way to prevent this is to use Signs instead. This way when someone (or something) enters it, no noise will be made, making it very stealthy.
- In SMP, if a player is standing behind a painting, other players do not see their name.<cn>
- Paintings are not actually attached to the wall. If you look closely, there is actually a space between the painting and the wall. It may be seen using signs and a 1x2 painting (vertical). It is seen most clearly when a painting is just big enough to cover up a wall of signs.
- If creeper block damage is turned off paintings can still be destroyed by creepers because of the fact that they are entities, not blocks.
