Painting - Item Test Page

What is Painting in Minecraft?

A Painting in Minecraft is a wonderful decorative item that you can place on walls to add art and personality to your builds. When you place a Painting, it will randomly select one of 26 possible images to display, ranging in size from a small 1x1 block square to a large 4x4 block mural. This randomness makes it fun to try and get your favorite picture. Paintings are perfect for decorating the inside of your house, castle, or any other structure. They can make a simple room feel more like a home, or add a touch of class to a grand hall. Players love using paintings to cover up secret doorways, as you can walk right through them. They are a simple but effective way to bring color and life to your Minecraft world.

How to get Painting in Minecraft

Getting a Painting is very easy, as it only requires common materials. The only way to get a Painting is by crafting it. The recipe calls for eight sticks and one block of wool of any color. You can get sticks by crafting them from wood planks. To get wool, you can either find sheep and shear them with shears, or you can defeat sheep to get one block of wool. You can also craft a block of wool from four pieces of string. Once you have your eight sticks and one block of wool, open a crafting table. Place the wool block in the center square and surround it completely with the eight sticks. This will give you one Painting, ready to be hung on your wall.

How to use Painting in Minecraft

To use a Painting, hold it in your hand and right click on the side of a solid block. The game will try to place the largest possible Painting that can fit in the space you clicked on. For example, if you click on a large, empty wall, you are more likely to get a big Painting. If you click in a small 1x1 space, you will always get a 1x1 Painting. If you do not like the Painting you got, you can simply break it and place it again to get a different one. A fun and popular trick is to use a Painting to hide a secret entrance. You can build a doorway and then cover the opening with a large Painting. Since you can walk through paintings, this creates a hidden passage that other players might not notice.

How to craft Painting in Minecraft

Crafting Table

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What can Painting make in Minecraft

No items can be crafted.

My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

By the way, this My Story section is something new I've only just started adding things here! Most of the site was actually built before I ever wrote this part. Now that the website is live, I'm running into problems galore! So if things look a bit rough or unfinished, bear with me I'm updating and adding as I go.

That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

I knew absolutely nothing about making websites. Like, properly nothing. I didn't even know what PHP was. But I'm stubborn as anything, so I just started watching YouTube tutorials and reading random stuff online while I was on my breaks.

Turns out building a database is harder than it looks. Who knew? I've probably broken this thing more times than I've fixed it. My laptop has definitely been sworn at more than it deserves.

The worst part is when you spend hours trying to figure out why something doesn't work, and it turns out you missed a semicolon. Or when everything works fine on your computer but looks like complete rubbish on someone else's. Fun times.

The Reality of It

Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

The database has corrupted itself more times than I care to remember. I've had images that wouldn't load for no reason. CSS that worked yesterday but decided to have a tantrum today. The usual web development nightmare stuff.

But every time I get something working properly, it feels brilliant. Like when I finally got all the block images showing up correctly, or when the search actually started finding things. Small wins, but they keep me going.

What I Actually Want to Build

Here's the thing I want this to be your go to place for everything Minecraft. Not just blocks and items, but proper guides, build tutorials, maybe even schematics you can download. Server info, community stuff, the lot.

I know it doesn't look like much right now, and there's loads missing. But I'm working on it. It takes time when you're learning as you go and doing it around a full time job. But I'd rather take my time and do it properly than rush it and end up with something rubbish.

The plan is to make it the kind of site I actually want to use fast, easy to navigate, with everything you need in one place. No endless ads, no broken links, just useful stuff presented in a way that doesn't make you want to throw your computer out the window.

Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

Plus, I've learned loads doing this. Sure, I've wanted to give up more times than I can count, but seeing it slowly come together is pretty satisfying. And if it helps other people find what they're looking for without having to trawl through ten different outdated websites, then that's worth it.

So yeah, bear with me while I figure this all out. It's going to take a while, but it'll get there eventually. Thanks for checking it out, and if you spot anything broken or have suggestions, let me know. I'm still learning, but I'm determined to make this work.