Tutorial:Adding custom paintings

This tutorial explains how to create a data pack and resource pack that adds custom painting variants. It assumes you already know how to create a data pack and resource pack.

This example adds a new painting variant that can be placed randomly, or by using the item present in the Creative Menu.

Let's start with the central painting variant file in the painting_variant folder in the data pack. Adding this file will allow Minecraft to register your custom painting, but it won't be available in survival yet.