








Joy of Painting Mod hands you a blank canvas and a palette and lets you paint the picture yourself, then hang it on a wall the way vanilla paintings hang. Colours are mixed on the palette using the same rules the game already uses for dyeing leather armour, so any of the sixteen million colours is reachable if you can work out the mix. Canvases come in several sizes and shapes, and a finished painting can be signed, copied, or sent to another world as a file.

Features:
- Colours are mixed on the palette following the vanilla leather dyeing rules, which keeps the whole range reachable.
- Four canvas sizes are available: one block, one by two, two by one and two by two.
- Brush size and brush opacity both change, set with the mouse wheel or by clicking the panel.
- Finished canvases hang on walls, and the small ones also sit on floors and ceilings.
- A mistake can be undone with
CTRL+Zwhile the painting screen is open. - Paintings show their picture while held in hand and in the inventory, not just once hung.
- Easels can be placed and painted at, which frees your off hand while you work.
- Glass canvases produce paintings with transparent areas, and the side frames can be painted too.
- Signing a painting names it and locks it, after which it stacks up to sixteen and can be copied with a blank canvas.
- A colour picker works on a full palette, and the canvas and palette panels can be dragged aside to keep a reference in view.
How to Use:
- Install Fabric, Forge or NeoForge, then drop the jar into
.minecraft/mods. - Craft a palette and a canvas. On versions before 2.0.0 the palette needs at least one dye; from 2.0.0 it takes a brush instead.
- Fill the palette by crafting it together with dyes it does not already carry. Each dye is one base colour.
- Hold the canvas in one hand and the palette in the other to open the painting screen, or place the canvas on an easel and right click it with the palette.
- Mix your colour on the palette, set the brush size with the wheel, and paint. Press
CTRL+Zto step back. - Sign the painting to name and lock it, then hang it on a wall like a vanilla painting.
Commands:
/paintexport <filename>writes the painting you are holding out to a file./paintimport <filename>reads that file back in, which is how paintings move between worlds and servers.
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Crafting Recipes:




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

You can fill an existing palette with other dyes later

Joy of Painting Mod Download Links
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: In MC Java Mods, or directly above on this page.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Downloads as 176915.mcaddon
- Download size: 446 KB
- Download link checked 26 Sept 2026 — working
- Mirrored on our own servers — the download does not depend on the original host
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.