Minecraft Just Added Painting!

Hey everybody, it’s UnderMyCap, and welcome back to another video. Today we’re looking at the brand-new paint add-on for Minecraft Bedrock Edition. This is an additional add-on you can download from the Marketplace.

When you spawn into a world with this add-on enabled, you’ll get an interesting item called the Paint Add-On Book. You have to place it on the ground to open it, so let’s do that.

How the Paint Add-On Works

Once the book is placed, you can flip through the pages. The controls are:

Interact for the next page, and Sneak + Interact for the previous page.

The book explains the basic steps:

Step 1: Craft an empty paintbrush.
Step 2: Craft an empty paint bucket.
Step 3: Put dye into the bucket to create colored paint.
Step 4: Interact with the empty paintbrush to take paint from the paint bucket, then paint blocks (and more).

At this point, I’m curious: does this add-on introduce new blocks, or does it just recolor existing ones? From what it looks like, it manipulates the color of blocks rather than adding brand-new blocks.

Cleaning Painted Blocks

The guide also explains how cleaning works. You can craft a cleaning sponge, which lets you clean painted blocks. Since sponges can be hard to obtain, you can also craft a cleaning rag using wool.

A cleaning sponge has unlimited uses, but a cleaning rag lasts for 100 uses, which seems fair.

It also notes that you can paint entities, and if you want to revert anything back to normal, you can use the cleaning sponge or cleaning rag to remove the paint.

Premium Tools and Extra Items

There’s also premium content:

You can craft a premium paintbrush that has 64 uses instead of 16. That’s an important detail, because paintbrushes do break over time.

The book also mentions additional items like:

Paintballs
Paint rollers

Alright, let’s jump in and test everything out, and then we’ll look at paintballs afterward.

Crafting a Paint Bucket and Painting Blocks

First, we need an empty paintbrush and an empty bucket. Then we need some dye. Dyes are in the dyes section of the creative inventory, so let’s grab orange dye.

We’ll also need a crafting table. Once that’s placed, we can craft the paint:

Put the empty paint bucket into the crafting grid and place the dye next to it. Just like that, we get an orange paint bucket.

The bucket is animated, which is pretty cool. Next, you dip the paintbrush into the paint bucket, and then you can paint blocks. That’s genuinely really cool.

Painting Mobs (Sorry, Pig)

And yes, you can paint animals as well. The first one I tested was a pig. I’m sorry, pig.

I also wanted to see if it works on sheep—like changing their wool color—but interestingly, you can’t paint a sheep. You can paint a pig, though, and it works immediately.

Trying Other Colors and Layering Paint

Next, I tried switching colors by getting a blue paint setup and using the premium paintbrush. In survival, that extra durability would definitely help.

I also tested whether painting on top of paint would blend colors. It doesn’t merge or mix—the new paint just replaces what was there, which is totally fine.

Cleaning Up the Mess

After painting a bunch of blocks, it got messy fast, so I tested the cleaning items.

The cleaning rag works as expected and removes paint, but it has limited uses (100, as the book said). The sponge also cleans paint, and it works well.

One extra detail I noticed: the sponge can also clean out the paint bucket. So if you need the bucket empty again, you can clean it and get back an empty paint bucket.

Paint Rollers (Fast 3×3 Painting)

Another feature is the paint roller. This paints in a 3×3 area, which is kind of insane.

If you want to paint large areas quickly, a roller makes it easy. It even seems to recolor areas like grass, which could be awesome if you want to create a custom biome effect—like blue grass, for example. That actually looks really nice.

Paintballs (Throw to Paint)

The last feature I was most interested in was the paintball. I grabbed a yellow paintball, and apparently you just throw it.

That is so cool.

When you throw a paintball, it paints a 3×3 area. I expected it to be more random, but it’s consistent and very usable. You can throw it at blocks to paint them quickly, and it would be an amazing way to recolor trees—especially for people who like creating seasonal worlds.

I also tested whether you can dye water, but it doesn’t seem like you can, which is fine.

One more thing: if you hit an entity with a paintball, it can get colored too. That’s a really cool touch. A bit of text popped up while testing, and I’m not sure what it was, but everything still worked fine.

Final Thoughts

Overall, this is a really creative and fun paint add-on. If you enjoyed this, make sure to leave a like and subscribe. This is a paint add-on you can get from the Minecraft Marketplace.

Have an awesome day, everyone. See you.