Preparing Wall Space Before Selecting Your Painting

Even though Custom Paintings Mod lets you choose your exact painting through a custom GUI instead of relying on random rolls, vanilla placement rules still govern whether a painting can fit on a wall. Preparing the surface ahead of time ensures the artwork you want can actually hang where you click.

Clearing Obstructions

Paintings are entities that occupy flat block faces and cannot overlap solid blocks, torches, item frames, buttons, or levers. Before right-clicking with your painting item:

1. Check the height and width of the wall area you plan to decorate.

2. Remove any wall-mounted lighting or redstone components inside that boundary.

3. Fill in missing blocks behind the target area so the painting has solid backing support, preventing it from popping off the wall later.

Placing on Interactive Blocks

If you want to hang a painting across chests, crafting tables, furnaces, or note blocks, right-clicking normally will open those block interfaces instead of triggering the painting GUI. Hold your sneak key while right-clicking the block face with your painting in hand. Sneaking bypasses the block's own menu, places the painting item, and opens the mod's custom GUI so you can pick your preferred artwork cleanly.