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Sit down at an easel, pick up a handful of dye, and paint. What you make is a real map item you can frame, hang, trade or give away.

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ArtMap turns a blank map into a canvas you paint by hand, one pixel at a time. It is slow, it is fiddly, and it is one of the most rewarding things on the server — a good painting takes an evening, and it hangs on your wall long after the build around it is finished.

You need three things to start: an easel to sit at, a canvas to paint on, and dye to paint with. Place the easel, put a canvas on it, right-click, and you are painting.

Painting needs Seedling — the first rank-up on the ladder, and a short one. Read the next section before you start buying emeralds, though: the rank is checked later than you would expect.

What you need to craft

Three things to get started, plus a brush for when you are done.

  • Easel

    The wooden frame that holds a canvas while you paint it.

    • 1× Item Frame
    • 1× Armour Stand
    • 1× Stick
    • 2× String
    • 2× Leather

  • Canvas

    One canvas is one map: 128 × 128 pixels. There is only the one size.

    • 1× Empty Map
    • 4× Leather
    • 4× Emerald

  • Paint Brush

    shapeless

    Signs and saves a finished piece. Not used for painting.

    • 1× Rabbit Hide
    • 1× Stick

Painting

Sit at the easel with a dye in your hand and aim at the canvas:

  • Left click — colour a single pixel.
  • Right click and move your view — draw freely, like dragging a brush.

Every dye in Minecraft works, and ArtMap adds a good many more on top of the usual sixteen — greys, browns and blues that vanilla dye simply cannot make, plus a transparent one for rubbing a mistake back out.

A selection, not the whole list — ArtMap ships about 70 dyes beyond the vanilla sixteen. Open /artmap and look under Dyes to see every one of them.

  • Cream
  • Light Grey
  • Emerald Green
  • Gold
  • Brick Red
  • Brown Brick Red
  • Coffee
  • Ice Blue
  • Caramel Brown
  • Maroon
  • Leaf Green
  • Dark Chocolate Brown
  • Gunpowder
  • Snow White
  • Egg White
  • Aqua
  • Ghast Grey
  • Iron Grey
  • Graphite
  • Water Blue
  • Lavender Purple
  • Deep Blue
  • Podzol Brown
  • Grass
  • Wood Brown
  • Glowstone Yellow
  • Transparent
  • Slime Green
  • Plum Purple
  • Apple Red
  • Crimson Hyphae
  • Cobbled Deepslate

There is one canvas, and it is one map: 128 × 128 pixels, sixteen thousand of them. That is the whole surface, and it is more than it sounds — a first painting is an evening's work at least, and nobody has ever regretted sketching the shape out before reaching for the detail.

The tools

Five items that make the difference between a painting and a fight with a painting.

Hold the item and aim at the canvas. Everything works from your seat at the easel.
ToolHoldLeft clickRight click
FillBucketFlood the whole canvas with the dye in your off-handUndo the last fill
ShadeDarkens by up to two steps.CoalDarken the pixel you are aiming atHold and move your view to darken freely
TintLightens by up to two steps.FeatherLighten the pixel you are aiming atHold and move your view to lighten freely
RotateFor reaching an awkward corner without leaving your seat.CompassFlip the canvas horizontallyFlip the canvas vertically
Eye DropperCovers several pixels at a time.SpongePick up the colour of the pixel you clickPaint with the colour you picked up

Fill is the one to learn first: hold the bucket in your main hand and a dye in your off-hand, left-click, and the whole canvas takes that colour. Laying down a background before you start beats colouring four thousand pixels of sky by hand.

Shade and tint are how a flat picture gets depth. They step a colour darker or lighter without you having to find a different dye — up to two steps in either direction, which is usually all you need for a shadow.

Saving and sharing

  1. Sign it with the brush

    Right-click the paint brush while sitting at the easel. Chat will ask you for a name — that is what your piece is filed under.

  2. Find it in the menu

    Open /artmap and look under Artworks. Finished pieces are listed there by artist, so you can browse your own work and everyone else's.

  3. Hang it up

    A finished painting is an ordinary map item. Put it in an item frame on a wall, and it stays there. If you want something bigger than one frame, that is several separate paintings hung next to each other — you would have to line the edges up by eye, because ArtMap has no way to spread one picture across several maps.

Keeping a copy of your own

One thing worth knowing before you spend a week on something: in vanilla Minecraft, anyone can copy a map in a cartography table, including a painting. That is how maps work in the game, not something the server does.

Common questions

Do I need a rank to paint?

Yes — painting at an easel needs Seedling. It is the first rank-up on the ladder, so it is not far, but a Wayfarer cannot sit down and paint yet.

Why did my canvas not work?

Almost certainly because you are still a Wayfarer. The rank is checked when you use an easel, not when you craft — so the crafting table will happily take your four emeralds for a canvas you cannot paint on yet. Rank up first; the canvas keeps.

Can I take a canvas off the easel and finish it later?

Yes. A half-finished canvas is an item like any other — take it with you and put it back on an easel when you want to carry on.

Where should I put my easel?

Somewhere you have claimed. An easel is a placed block-and-armour-stand arrangement, and an unclaimed one is as exposed as anything else you leave lying around.

Is any of this for sale in the store?

No. ArtMap is earned the same way as everything else — with materials and time. The store sells cosmetics only.