Paintings are also one of the items that will allow you to decorate your buildings. By hanging them on the wall you can decorate your house with different paintings. So if you wanna decorate your house with different paintings then you have to know first “How to make a painting in Minecraft”
In this article, I will also tell you all the other essential things that you should know about painting. I will also tell you how you can use them to create a secret hidden door, customize paintings, etc.
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How to make a painting in Minecraft
If you wanna make a painting then you have to first open the crafting table and then place the wool in the middle of the crafting table/3×3 grid. Now the last thing that you have to do is cover all the empty boxes with sticks.
Now I hope you got your painting. So now if you wanna use it then right-click the painting on a wall to place the painting. After that, you will see a random painting that was chosen according to the total of 26 paintings present.
Now without further ado let’s know more about paintings with deep details.
Available Platforms
| Edition | Platform | Available |
| Java Edition | Windows, Mac & Linux PC’s | YES |
| Bedrock Edition | Xbox One, iOS, Android, Windows 10 PC’s, Fire OS, Nintendo Switch | YES |
| Education Edition | Mac, Windows 10 PC’s, iOs 12 | YES |
| PlayStation Edition | PlayStation 3 & 4 | YES |
How to craft paintings in Minecraft (Step by Step)
To make a painting first have you have to gather some materials because without them you won’t able to make any painting in Minecraft. So here are the list of materials that you have to collect and the process to collect them so easily.
Materials you need to create Painting in Minecraft
- Crafting table
- 8 Sticks
- 1 Wool
Now without Further Ado let me tell you about How you can get these items so easily…
Recipe to get crafting Table in Minecraft:
To create a crafting table first all you have to do is collect some logs, and by hitting any nearby tree with an axe, you can easily collect logs. You can also use your hand to hit the tree but this process will be a little lengthy.
Now just put the collected logs inside of your crafting menu. After putting them in the crafting menu you will get planks from them. And by using planks you can easily craft sticks.
Okay so after getting planks from the logs, you have to put the planks in the crafting menu.
If you did the process well then you will see the crafting table on the right side just as you can see in the image that I gave above.
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How to get sticks in Minecraft
To create sticks first you will have to collect planks, and as I said before that by putting logs in the crafting menu you can easily get planks from them.
So after getting the planks from the logs, now you will have to put two planks in the crafting table one by one vertically. After putting them you will see that the sticks appear on the right side.
Now the last thing that you have to collect is wool. So without wasting any time let me tell you this too 😉
How to get Wool in Minecraft
One of the easiest ways to get wool in Minecraft is by killing sheep. Yes, by killing sheep you will easily get wool in Minecraft. Even you will not only get wool but also you will get meat by killing them.
This is the only process that most players like most, and this is all because sheep can be found so easily in the Minecraft world.
Hope you collected all the materials that I mentioned, so now let me tell you about How to make a painting in Minecraft with steps.
Recipe to craft painting in Minecraft
To create a painting, you have to open the crafting table first.
After that, you have put the wool in the middle of the 3×3 grid. Now fill all the other empty boxes with sticks.
At the last, you will see that your painting appeared on the right side of the crafting table.
Now take the painting and put it in your inventory.
Usage of Paintings in Minecraft / Hanging the painting
You can easily use paintings in Minecraft because all you have to do is hold the painting in your hand and right-click the painting on a wall. After that, the painting will be on the wall as long as there are enough available blocks on the wall.
List of all Minecraft Paintings
| Size (Blocks) | Name | Description |
| 1×1 | Alban | A man wearing a fez and stood next to a house and a bush. As the name of the painting suggests, it will be a landscape in Albania. |
| 1×1 | Wasteland | Painting of a view of some wastelands; a small animal (presumably a rabbit) is sitting on the window ledge. |
| 1×1 | Aztec2 | Free-look perspective of the map de_aztec from the video game Counter-Strike. |
| 1×1 | Aztec | |
| 1×1 | Kebab | A kebab with three green chili peppers. |
| 1×1 | Plant | Still life painting of two plants in pots. “Paradisträd” is Swedish for “money tree”, which is a common name for the depicted species in Scandinavia. |
| 1×1 | Bomb | Painting of the map de_dust2 from the video game Counter-Strike, named “target successfully bombed” in reference to the game. |
| 2×1 | Courbet | Two hikers with pointy beards seemingly greeting each other. This painting is based on Gustave Courbet’s painting The Meeting or “Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet”. |
| 2×1 | Pool | Some men and women skinny-dipping in a pool over a cube of sorts. Also, there is an old man resting on the lower-right edge. |
| 2×1 | Sea | Painting of a view of mountains and a lake, with a small photo of a mountain and a bright-colored plant on the window ledge. |
| 2×1 | Sunset | Painting of a view of mountains at sunset. |
| 2×1 | 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. |
| 1×2 | Wanderer | A low-resolution version of Caspar David Friedrich’s famous painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. |
| 1×2 | Graham | Painting of King Graham, the player character in the video game series King’s Quest. |
| 2×2 | Skull and Roses | Painting of a skeleton at night with red flowers in the foreground. The original painting is different, depicting a woman sitting on a couch, while the skull is in the middle of a body of glacial water of sorts. |
| 2×2 | Bust | Painting of a bust of Marcus Aurelius surrounded by pixelated fire. |
| 2×2 | Match | A hand holding a match, causing pixelated fire on a white cubic gas fireplace. |
| 2×2 | Wither | Painting depicting the creation of a wither. This is the only painting not based on a real painting. |
| 2×2 | Void | Painting of an angel praying into what appears to be a void with pixelated fire below. |
| 2×2 | Stage | Painting of scenery from Space Quest I, with the character Graham from the video game series King’s Quest. |
| 4×2 | Fighters | Two pixelated men poised to fight. Paper versions of fighters from the game International Karate. |
| 4×3 | Skeleton | A painting of the “Mean Midget” from the adventure game Grim Fandango. |
| 4×3 | Donkey Kong | A paper-looking screenshot of the level 100 m. from the arcade game Donkey Kong. |
| 4×4 | Pigscene | Painting of a girl that is pointing to a pig on a canvas. In the original version, the canvas shows red, green, and blue blocks, representing the three colors of the RGB color model. |
| 4×4 | Burning Skull | A skull on pixelated fire; in the background, there is a moon in a clear night sky. |
| 4×4 | Pointer | A painting of the main character of the game International Karate + in a fighting stance touching a large hand. |
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How to make secret doors in Minecraft
If you wanna make a secret door in Minecraft then first all you have to do is make a door-sized shape in the structure you want to use. When you will successfully complete it then follow everything one by one that I am gonna tell you below:
To create a secret door you will have to put two signs inside the doorway to hang the painting on. After that hang the painting over the doorway.
Basically, the signs will act as blocks, so now all you have to do is create a painting that you want, and when you are done, this will create a painting that you can walkthrough.