Painting variant definition
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See also: Tutorial:Adding custom paintings
This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.
A painting variant consists of a texture and a width and height in blocks.
Definition
[edit | edit source]Painting variants can be defined in data packs, as part of the directory structure below. Until Java Edition 1.21.6 they can also be inlined in the entity data and painting/variant data component.
data pack name.zip or 
data pack name
pack.mcmeta- data
- namespace
- painting_variant
- <name>.json
- More directories…
JSON Format
[edit | edit source]Painting variants are defined using the following format:
- [NBT Compound / JSON Object] The root object.
- [String] asset_id: A resource location of the sprite to use. Has to be in the
paintingatlas. - [Int] width: The width of the painting in blocks, between 1 and 16.
- [Int] height: The height of the painting in blocks, between 1 and 16.
- [String][NBT List / JSON Array][NBT Compound / JSON Object] title: Text component to use as this painting's title. See Text component format.
- [String][NBT List / JSON Array][NBT Compound / JSON Object] author: Text component to use as this painting's author. See Text component format.
- [String] asset_id: A resource location of the sprite to use. Has to be in the
History
[edit | edit source]| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.21 | 24w18a | Added painting variants to data packs. | |||||
| 24w20a | Painting variants can now be inlined in painting entity data. | ||||||
| 1.21.2 | 24w33a | Added new optional fields author and title, holding text components to be displayed in the creative menu tooltip. | |||||
Author tooltip has been removed for earth, wind, fire, water and wither variants. | |||||||
| 1.21.6 | 25w16a | Painting variants can no longer be inlined in entity NBT or the painting/variant component. | |||||
