Easel Does It!
by thelegitdolt
Easel Does It! changes how players interact with paintings, letting a painting be placed and managed through easels on Forge and NeoForge.
What it does
Easel Does It! adds easels that make working with paintings simpler. A villager who claims an easel job site becomes an Artist, and Artist villagers can appear in Artist House structures that generate in village biomes.
Artists also offer trades for canvas and hanging canvas signs, decorated pots, chalk colors and items colored with dye depot dyes, so the mod links into the decoration trades of other installed mods. Easels are compatible with modded paintings, which covers the many painting variants some modpacks build. Fast painting is available in the config, where a placed-with-NBT drop value can be set for players who want the intended behavior with mod.
The mod also fixes MC-257133, a vanilla bug that causes a client-server desync when paintings are placed in spaces where they do not fit. Installation needs Blueprint, which is a required dependency. Easel Does It! is published for Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, and it is not open source; the mod is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
Easel interaction
Easels give players a dedicated block for placing and handling paintings, instead of the vanilla placement flow.
Artist villager profession
A villager who claims an easel job site becomes an Artist and begins offering the mod's new trades.
Artist House structures
Artist House structures generate in villages, housing Artist villagers who sell easel-related goods.
Fast painting config
The config includes a fast painting option and a drop value for paintings placed with NBT data.
Painting desync fix
Paintings that do not fit are no longer placed in spaces where they would desync between client and server.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Choosey Painter is a NeoForge-only mod for 1.21.1, released under the MIT License, and it runs as client and server. Tinted Dyes is a Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, released under All rights reserved, and both sides need it. Easel Does It! covers the same Forge and NeoForge versions as Tinted Dyes, but the mod is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easel Does It! | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-30 |
| Choosey Painter | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-08-02 |
| Tinted Dyes | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-09-20 |
Questions
Does Easel Does It! need Blueprint?
Does the mod have to be installed on both sides?
Which game versions does Easel Does It! support?
In the catalog
Easel Does It! is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,149 Decoration mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
⚠️ Warning: Easel Does It requires Blueprint for all versions. ⚠️ Fast Painting players: Please go to the Fast Paintings config and set the nbt_drop value to WHEN_PLACED_WITH_NBT for intended behavior with this mod.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/easel-does-it
- Owner
- thelegitdolt
- Published
- 2024-10-04
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-03-30
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15