Paint your Shulkers!
by Skaylanz
Paint your Shulkers! lets players paint the six sides of a shulker box on a 16×16 grid, using sixteen dye colors.
What it does
Selecting a placed shulker box with a right-click, or sneak-right-clicking with both hands empty, opens a painting editor styled after the game's own interface. The editor shows a live 3D preview that rotates, and each face can be chosen and recolored one pixel at a time. Unpainted pixels show the real vanilla resource-pack texture beneath them, so a painted box keeps the look of the pack it is played with. The paint brush is crafted in a vertical pattern, with a feather at the top, a metal ingot at the center and a stick at the base.
The brush covers 1×1 up to 5×5 pixels, paints with left click and erases with right click, while dragging rotates the preview and the scroll wheel zooms. Auto Face edits whichever side is facing the player. Artwork stays visible when the box is opened, closed, broken, moved, unloaded or after a reconnect, and the box can be turned into a tiny piece of pixel art. The mod works on servers too, and it works alongside texture packs.
Key features
Six-sided pixel painting
Each face of the shulker box is edited on its own 16×16 grid, with precise control over every pixel.
Sixteen dye colors
The palette uses the sixteen classic Minecraft dye colors for the painted artwork.
Adjustable brush size
The brush can be set between 1×1 and 5×5 pixels, with left click to paint and right click to erase.
Live 3D preview
The editor rotates a 3D preview of the box, and a face can be selected and recolored in place.
Artwork that persists
Painted designs remain visible through opening, closing, breaking, moving, unloading and reconnecting.
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
fzPaint is a Fabric mod for 1.21.1 under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, with client and server environment. Paint Blocks is a Fabric mod for 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 under All rights reserved, with client and server environment. Where Is My Shulker is a Fabric mod for 1.21.11, open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, and runs client-side only.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paint your Shulkers! | Fabric | 1.21.1 | Client-side only | 2026-08-02 |
| fzPaint | Fabric | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-11-02 |
| Paint Blocks | Fabric | 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-05-28 |
| Where Is My Shulker | Fabric | 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2025-12-21 |
Questions
Does Paint your Shulkers! need Fabric API?
Does the server need the mod?
Which game versions are supported?
In the catalog
Paint your Shulkers! is one of 4,058 Storage mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,474 Storage mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Turn every shulker box into a tiny piece of pixel art. Paint your Shulkers! adds a polished, Minecraft-styled painting editor for all sixteen shulker box colors. Open the editor, rotate a live 3D preview, choose any face, and recolor individual pixels without replacing the familiar vanilla model or animation.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/paint-your-shulkers
- Owner
- Skaylanz
- Published
- 2026-08-02
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-02
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15