kz.png

This article is about the history of the kz.png file. For a comprehensive history of painting texture changes, including after kz.png's decommission, see History of textures.

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This page describes content that has been removed from Java Edition.

 

This feature was present in earlier versions of Java Edition, but has since been removed.

kz.png is a texture atlas used for storing textures of paintings. Paintings added in Bedrock Edition 1.21.0 and later versions are stored in their own texture files, but this atlas is still used for older paintings and the back texture.

paintings_kristoffer_zetterstrand.png was a texture atlas found inside minecraft.jar used for storing textures of paintings in Java Edition.

kz.png is a fixed-width 256×256-pixel file that is split into different 16×16 squares which correspond to the texture of each painting. A separate file, kz_mers.tga, stores the MERS values of individual pixels on all paintings, used in Vibrant Visuals.

Like with terrain.png, items.png and particles.png, paintings were originally stored on a main texture atlas rather than being separate individual files. Empty slots were filled in with the magenta grid texture.

Java Edition Indev
Minecraft Indev			20100223				Added kz.png, with the first of the paintings.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.1.1							Updated kz.png to account for the added and modified paintings in this version.
Java Edition Beta
1.3							Updated kz.png to account for the addition of the skull painting.
Java Edition
1.4.2			12w36a				Updated kz.png to account for the addition of the wither painting.
1.6.1			13w24a				Renamed kz.png to paintings_kristoffer_zetterstrand.png.
1.14			19w07a				Replaced paintings_kristoffer_zetterstrand.png with paintings.png-atlas.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.5.0							Added kz.png. It seems identical to the Beta 1.2 version, but has the four unused paintings.
v0.8.0			build 1				kz.png has been updated. The four unused paintings have been updated for unknown reasons.
v0.12.1			build 1				kz.png has been updated. The wither painting has been added.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.0			beta 1.17.0.50				kz.png has been updated. The back texture has been updated to match the updated planks textures.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
1.66.0016.0							Added kz.png.
TU14	CU1	1.04	1.00	1.00			Updated kz.png to account for the wither painting.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15	1.0.1	Updated kz.png. Some of the 1×1 paintings are now duplicated; in some custom texture packs, they have their own unique textures.

• The "Kz" in the name "Kz.png" stands for "Kristoffer Zetterstrand", the artist of the majority of the Minecraft paintings, indicated by the fact that the file was renamed "paintings_kristoffer_zetterstrand.png" in Java Edition 1.6.

• Texture pack
• Resource pack
• Painting
• Unused paintings
• Java Edition history of textures/Entities