Distinct Paintings
Motivated for motives!
A simple mod that splits the random painting item into distinct variants by using NBT tags.
Technical details
A new painting item is introduced which iterates over all motives specified in EntityPainting.EnumArt and registers a sub-item for each variant. This way, any mod that is modifying this enumeration is supported, JSON Paintings for instance.
But wait, JSON Paintings already does that and there are painting selection GUIs in other mods as well!!
That is indeed true, but with registering paintings as distinct items (hence the name), you can specify the individual paintings as loot or other methods that require/support NBT.
This mod was commissioned for Minecraft 1.12.2.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.12.2
- 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: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as DistinctPaintings-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 16 KB
- Download link checked 9 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.