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Pixel Painter

Turn PNG, JPEG and WebP images into Minecraft block art with perceptual color matching and persistent undo.

PluginsFree1.21 – 26.x
by Despical · listed from Modrinth
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What it does

Turn PNG, JPEG and WebP images into Minecraft block art with perceptual color matching and persistent undo.

Pixel Painter is a plugin for Paper / Spigot servers, made by Despical. It supports Minecraft 1.21 – 26.x. It has been downloaded 10 times on Modrinth. That puts it at #96 of the 108 cosmetic and display plugins listed here. The last update came out on Nov 5, 2026.

Supported versions

26.x1.21

Release history

Pixel Painter has had 2 releases on Modrinth since Nov 2, 2026. 2 of them came out in the past year. The newest is 2.0.2, released on Nov 5, 2026. It is made for Minecraft 1.21.11 – 26.3. It runs on Folia, Paper and Purpur. The download is 1.0 MB.

VersionReleasedMinecraftType
2.0.2Nov 5, 20261.21.11 – 26.3Release
2.0.1Nov 2, 20261.21.11 – 26.3Release

Commands

The commands named on the Modrinth page of Pixel Painter:

/pp

Latest release on GitHub

Pixel Painter is open source. Its newest release on GitHub is PixelPainter 2.0.2, published on Nov 5, 2026.

What's Changed

  • Image color matching now remembers results per palette in a bounded cache, so repeated colors and repeated paintings with the same palette skip the perceptual nearest-color search.
  • Image planning reads pixels straight from the scaled image instead of calling getRGB for every pixel, and counts materials without per-pixel string merging.
  • Painting and undo now group blocks by chunk in a single pass without boxing every block index, which speeds up preparing large paintings.
  • Bump gradle/actions from 6.4.0 to 6.4.1 by @dependabot in #6

Full Changelog: 2.0.1...2.0.2

Before that: PixelPainter 2.0.1 (Nov 2, 2026), PixelPainter 2.0.0 (Oct 30, 2026).

Description from the author on Modrinth

Pixel Painter

Turn images into block art.

305 block colors · Oklab color matching · Persistent undo
Paint PNG, JPEG and WebP images straight into your world.

**Explore the documentation** · **Quick start**

Drop an image into the plugin folder, stand where you want the art to begin and run one command. Pixel Painter matches every pixel to the closest block, builds the picture in your world and keeps a journal so you can undo it, even after a restart.

Paint anything

PNG, JPEG and WebP sources are painted as vertical walls or horizontal floor art in eight directions. Pick an exact height in blocks and the width follows the original aspect ratio. Transparent pixels can be kept as empty space.

Colors that match

305 opaque block materials are matched with Oklab perceptual color distance, with optional Floyd-Steinberg dithering for smoother gradients. Choose the full palette or limit it to the block families you want.

Safe to build and safe to undo

  • Estimate dimensions and material counts with /pp preview before touching the world.
  • Tick-limited, chunk-batched world edits with private progress and cancellation.
  • Durable undo journals keep the original block properties and recover from restarts and interrupted builds.
  • A Paint anyway button appears when a painting crosses the world border.

Quick start

/pp list
/pp preview portrait.png 64 all true true
/pp create portrait.png north 64 true all true
/pp undo

Put image files in plugins/PixelPainter/images, stand at the bottom-left block of the picture and run /pp create. Every command and permission is listed in the documentation.

Requirements

  • Paper or a Paper-based fork, or Folia, from 1.21.11 through 26.3.
  • Java 25 or newer.
  • Spigot and CraftBukkit are not supported.

Links

Documentation · Source · Issues · Discord · SpigotMC · BuiltByBit

Written by Despical. Read it with pictures on Modrinth.

How to install Pixel Painter

  1. Make sure your server runs Paper and Spigot on Minecraft 1.21 – 26.x.

  2. Download the .jar file from Modrinth and put it in the plugins folder of your server.

  3. Restart the server. Avoid /reload, many plugins do not handle it well.

  4. Type /plugins in the console: Pixel Painter should be listed in green. Its config files are created in the plugins folder on the first start.

Compatibility

Minecraft versions
26.x, 1.21
Runs on
Paper, Spigot
Edition
Java
Needs
Nothing else
License
GPL
Price
Free
Upkeep
Actively updated (Nov 9, 2026)

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Questions

Does Pixel Painter work on Minecraft 26.x?

Yes. Pixel Painter supports Minecraft 26.x. All supported versions: 26.x, 1.21.

Is Pixel Painter free?

Yes. Pixel Painter is free to download from Modrinth.

Which server software does Pixel Painter run on?

Pixel Painter runs on Paper and Spigot servers.

Is Pixel Painter still updated?

Yes. The last update came out in the past day.

What are the best alternatives to Pixel Painter?

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