Fast Paintings
With Fast Paintings installed, paintings stop being entity-rendered objects and become blocks that draw from baked models, which cuts their rendering cost.
What it does
Fast Paintings replaces vanilla paintings with a block equivalent. Block paintings use baked models instead of the tile renderer, and because they are no longer entities, the per-tick cost of the painting entity disappears. A painting also updates at once when its supporting block is broken, and it can emit particles.
The replacement keeps the normal behavior players expect: a painting is still placed on a wall and can be walked through. The base model also fixes a vanilla issue where the edges of a painting showed the wrong texture. Because the paintings are blocks, their models can be customized, which is a side effect of the approach.
The mod is client and server, so the server and every player need it. It depends on Moonlight Lib. Files target 1.19.2 – 26.1.2 on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, and the code is released under All rights reserved, so the mod is not open source.
Key features
Baked paintings
Paintings render from baked block models rather than the tile renderer, reducing the rendering work for each one.
No painting entity ticking
Because paintings are blocks, the lag tied to painting entity ticking no longer applies.
Immediate supporting-block updates
A painting disappears as soon as the block that supports it is broken, without waiting for an entity update.
Painting particles
Paintings can emit particles, a behavior that the entity form did not offer.
Customizable painting models
The painting model can be replaced entirely, and the base model corrects the wrong edge texture from vanilla.
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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
Required by 1 mod
How it compares
OptiPainting is a Fabric mod for client-side use only, open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, with files for 1.19 – 1.20.6. OptiPainting Reloaded covers the newer 1.21.8 – 1.21.11 range on Fabric under the same license. SmoothMaps is open source under the MIT License and works on Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.21.2 – 26.2; it works on either side, and neither side needs it. Fast Paintings differs in that it is client and server and not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fast Paintings | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-09-25 |
| OptiPainting | Fabric | 1.19 – 1.20.6 | Client-side only | 2024-05-11 |
| OptiPainting Reloaded | Fabric | 1.21.8 – 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2025-12-19 |
| SmoothMaps | Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.2 – 26.2 | Client or server, optional | 2026-07-26 |
Questions
Does Fast Paintings need Moonlight Lib?
Does the server need Fast Paintings?
Which loaders have Fast Paintings files?
In the catalog
Fast Paintings is one of 3,545 Optimization mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,575 Optimization mods for Fabric. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.
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What the author says
Fast Painting is a Performance Mod aimed at making Paintings render way faster To do so the mod simply replaces them with their block equivalent form. Block paintings will use baked models instead of tile renderer which makes them as fast as they could be
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/fast-paintings
- Owner
- MehVahdJukaar
- Published
- 2023-07-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-25
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15