Craft a Painting in Minecraft

Paintings are used for decoration and to conceal secret rooms in the game of Minecraft. Making them is very simple. If you'd like to know how you can easily craft a painting in Minecraft, then read this article.

Steps

Finding the materials

  1. Find wool. You'll need one piece of wool. This can be obtained by shearing a sheep with a pair of shears.
    • Any color of wool is fine. Currently, the shade of the wool has no influence over the resulting painting.
  2. Find eight sticks. These are crafted from wooden planks, in the same way that the image above shows.

Crafting the painting

  1. Place the wool and sticks into the crafting grid. For the Painting Recipe, arrange as follows:
    • Place the wool in the center slot.
    • Place the 8 sticks in all of the remaining slots.
  2. Craft the painting. To remove it to your inventory once it is crafted, shift click or drag.

Hanging the painting

  1. Right click on a wall or other flat, vertical surface, while holding the painting. It will hang where you've clicked. The type of painting that will hang is completely random and you'll get a different picture each time.
    • Paintings can only be placed on flat vertical surfaces.
  2. Know what to do if you want to get the painting to fill up an area:
    • Mark the bounds using any solid block.
    • Place the painting in the lower left corner.
    • Expect the painting to expand to the top right corner, to try to fill the space.
  3. Note that the direction your painting faces affects its brightness.
    • Paintings placed facing north/south are brighter.
    • Paintings placed facing east/west are darker.

Tips

  • If you place a painting over a light source, it will behave like a lamp and light the room.
  • You can hide a chest placed in a wall behind a painting. This is a useful way to keep your treasures hidden in multi-player mode.
  • Paintings can fall off the wall as follows:
    • Any item that can be thrown that hits it will knock the painting off the wall. For example, a snowball, fishing rod bobber, chicken egg or arrow. You can pick up the painting and rehang it.
    • TNT and lightning will knock paintings off the wall.
    • Arrows will disappear if they hit a painting.
  • To conceal a secret entrance in your structure, put a door where you have the entrance. Open the door, then crouch using whatever assigned button you use, then right click with the painting in hand. The painting will cover the door. The shape of the painting will conform to the door's shape. To remember where you've made a secret entrance, memorize the painting. If you forget, you might just have to bump into various paintings and hope!
    • Note: From Beta 1.2, paintings drop if a supporting block is removed. This makes it harder to make a secret door. Try attaching a large painting to a block next to the door. This will do the job of covering it.
    • Be aware that if you try to open a door behind a painting, you might knock the painting off the wall. Pick it up and put it back in place when you've come through.
  • Paintings are non-flammable. They protect flammable blocks from fire.[1]

Things You'll Need

  • Wool
  • 8 Sticks
  • Crafting Table
  • Door (for secret room)

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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Paintings
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