Cycle Paintings
by Serilum
Players who rearrange placed artwork can cycle through motives in Cycle Paintings by right-clicking a painting with another painting held in the right hand.
What it does
The mod changes the motive of a placed painting without breaking it and placing it again. The player holds another painting in the right hand and right-clicks the placed one; each click moves to the next motive. Crouching while clicking reverses the order, so the previous motive can be reached as well. Paintings added by other mods work in the same way.
The config file can exclude motives from the cycle. It accepts a mod prefix, the part of an identifier before the colon, or a full identifier. A debug option prints every registered painting to the console, which helps find the identifiers to list. The mod depends on Collective, which must be installed alongside it. Cycle Paintings is server-side only, so players join without installing anything, and it is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt across 29 release versions, 1.16.5 – 26.3. The mod is not open source and is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
Motive cycling
Right-clicking a placed painting with another painting in hand swaps it to the next motive.
Reverse cycle
Crouching while right-clicking steps the cycle backward to the previous motive.
Modded paintings
Motives registered by other mods join the cycle alongside the vanilla ones.
Motive blacklist
A config option lists mod prefixes or full identifiers that are left out of the cycle.
Registry debug output
An optional setting prints all registered paintings to the console to help build the blacklist.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
1.20.x7 of 7 versions with builds
1.19.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.18.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.16.x1 of 1 version with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Rearranging a gallery
A builder can try different artwork on an existing wall without removing and replacing each painting.
Filtering unwanted motives
A server owner can keep certain motives, such as those from a specific mod, out of the cycle.
Who it’s for: Builders who decorate with paintings and server owners who want to control which motives players can cycle through.
How it compares
Retouch Brush is open source under the MIT License and runs server-side only on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.20 – 26.3. PaintingsGUI is a Fabric-only mod for 26.1.2 – 26.2 that needs both client and server, and it is not open source. Client Paintings is client-side only and open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, but it is Fabric-only and covers 1.19 – 1.20.2.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cycle Paintings | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.16.5 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-10-02 |
| Retouch Brush | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-10-13 |
| PaintingsGUI | Fabric | 26.1.2 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-05 |
| Client Paintings | Fabric | 1.19 – 1.20.2 | Client-side only | 2023-11-03 |
Questions
Does Cycle Paintings need Collective?
Does every player need Cycle Paintings installed?
Which motives can be left out of the cycle?
In the catalog
Cycle Paintings is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Cycle Paintings is a minimalistic mod which allows players to cycle through placed paintings by right-clicking them with another painting in their right hand. Also works with modded paintings. You can also blacklist certain motives from other mods or the vanilla game from appearing during the cycle via the config…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/cycle-paintings
- Owner
- Serilum
- Published
- 2022-09-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-02
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15