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The second installment in the "Joy of..." series adds a new decorative block: the Painting!
Unlike vanilla paintings, this one is customizable.

The recipe for the painting is in the handbook. You will need 4 planks (any wood), 1 square-stitch linen and 4x0.5L of any dye (the handbook make it look like you need 4 times the same dye, you don't. You can mix them)

Once you have a painting, hold it in your hand and type the command:

.loadpainting [painting file name]

Since 1.4.0, it's also possible to load an image from an URL (note that this feature is still experimental and might not work all the time):

.loadpainting [painting URL, ending with an image file format (.png, .jpg...)]

It's also possible since 1.4.0 to rename a painting with the /renamepainting [painting name] command.

The painting file should be an image (bitmap, jpeg, png...) with a resolution of 32x in your VintagestoryData/Paintings folder. The name that you will input in the command can't have any spaces, and you should not add the file extension at the end of the name, it will be added automatically (so if you write it, it will look for a paintingname.bmp.bmp for instance)
The great part is that only you need to have the file: it's then uploaded to the server so everyone can see it!

Oh, also, you can place paintings on the floor and on ceilings!

Please note: painting synchronization might take a short time after you loaded the painting. The painting might still not be loaded if you place it immediatly afterwards depending on server lag. Once it's placed though, if it works, it won't change.

Also, as of 1.4.0, paintings don't render immediatly in your hotbar, even when successfully loaded. You need to move them in your inventory (or drop them to the ground) to update the in-inventory rendering.

Making paintings

If you want to touch up an image for a painting, you can use Paint.NET (Windows only), it's what I use, it's pretty simple to understand and MUCH better than MS Paint.

You can resize the image with image -> resize (check "keep proportions" and force the smallest dimension to a multiple of 32), then crop it with Image -> canvas size (or something) to make sure that both dimensions are multiples of 32.

You can then split it into 32x32 squares with the rectangle selection tool, copy it, create a new image, paste it, then File -> Save as..., enter the name and under it select "Bitmap" (or jpg, png, tiff... since 1.4.0)

For search referencing, the mod id is jopainting
More search referencing stuff, people might search for pixel art chiseling chiselling chisel