Joy of Painting – Minecraft Mod

This mod lets you craft a blank canvas and a palette, with which you can paint your own pictures and hang them on a wall like the vanilla paintings. Let your creativity roam free or paint memes and experience the joy of painting.

If you are interested in making music as well, check Music Maker Mod, another one of my mods.

Installation

• Install Forge
• Download the mod from the Curse Forge page
• Copy the jar to the mods folder

Features

• Color mixing mechanic faithful to vanilla and fun to use
• Painted canvases can be hanged on a wall
• Multiple brush sizes
• Multiple canvas sizes and shapes
• All 16 million colors are available (as long as you can mix them)
• Undo mistakes with CTRL+Z
• You can see the paintings while on hand and in the inventory
• Pleasant painting sound effects
• Color picking tool on full palettes
• Changing brush opacity
• Easels you can paint on

Usage Guide

• First you need to craft (or get from the creative inventory) a palette and a canvas. Crafting recipes are given below.
• When crafting a palette, any combination of dyes will do, but you need at least one dye.
• You can then fill the palette with other dyes if you want.
• There are currently four kinds of canvases. The basic one is 1 block sized. The others are 1x2, 2x1 and 2x2 block sized.
• Using a canvas (by itself) with right-click lets you view its content.
• Using a palette (by itself) lets you open the palette interface, where you can mix colors to create custom ones.
• Using a canvas in one hand and a palette on the other lets you open both interfaces at once, where you can paint on the canvas using the colors on your palette. You can mix colors here as well.
• Another option is to place the canvas on an easel and right click the easel with a palette at hand.
• The color mixing rules work the same way as the vanilla leather armor dyeing mechanic.
• Change the brush size or opacity with the mouse wheel or by clicking on the GUI element
• Undo mistakes with the CTRL+Z shortcut
• After painting a canvas, you can use it on a wall similar to vanilla paintings to hang it on the wall.
• Hitting the hanged canvas or breaking a block it rests on will drop it back as an item.
• Sign a painting to give it a name and make it unchangeable.
• Copy signed paintings by crafting them together with an empty canvas of the same shape.

Crafting Recipes

To craft a palette, you need at least one kind of dye:

You can fill an existing palette with other dyes later:

You can copy signed paintings:

Code

If you wish to check the code, here is the Github repository: https://github.com/ercanserteli/xercamods

Credits to Edgewalker_Blue for providing the Chinese translation.