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Vintage Canvas
Vintage Canvas Vintage Canvas is an immersive in-world painting mod. Designed to provide a gameplay experience similar to vanilla chiselling, it simulates the crafting and use of traditional oil paints on canvas as well as wall frescos. The mod adds a collec
Quick answer
Which Vintage Canvas release matches 1.22.5?
Vintage Canvas 1.2.2 targets 1.22.0, 1.22.1, 1.22.2. It must be installed on the client. Installation on the dedicated server is optional. No extra mods listed for this file.
Where it goes
Is Vintage Canvas required on the client, server, or both?
It must be installed on the client. Installation on the dedicated server is optional.
This release supports both sides, but the source does not require it on the server.
What else does Vintage Canvas 1.2.2 need?
1.2.2 on 1.22.5. Every mod below is checked against that same setup.
This file does not list any required mods. Do not add a library just because a different file uses it.
This file does not list any required or optional mods.
Before you install it
Add Vintage Canvas without breaking your instance.
Built for Vintage Canvas 1.2.2 on 1.22.5. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.
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Stick to this file
Use 1.2.2. It targets 1.22.0, 1.22.1, 1.22.2; another release may have different loader, side or dependency requirements.
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Bring the mods it needs
This file does not list any required mods. Do not add a library just because a different file uses it.
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Put it on the correct side
It must be installed on the client. Installation on the dedicated server is optional.
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Pick the file you checked
Use the “Get this file” button beside 1.2.2. It opens that exact file at the source.
About this project
What does Vintage Canvas add?
Vintage Canvas
Vintage Canvas is an immersive in-world painting mod. Designed to provide a gameplay experience similar to vanilla chiselling, it simulates the crafting and use of traditional oil paints on canvas as well as wall frescos.
The mod adds a collection of painting tools, with the possibilities ranging from simple charcoal sketches all the way to large canvasses with custom mixed paints, frames, and more!
To ask questions, request features, or show off your paintings, come join us over at the Discord!
Features
Vintage Canvas introduces the following blocks and items:
Easels
The core of the canvas painting process, easels can contain canvases of their corresponding size (normal or large). While a canvas is on the easel, it can be edited with one of the painting tools. Right-clicking with an empty hand retrieves the canvas.
Canvases
Canvases are made from linen and sticks, and can be combined into their larger variants. Each size of canvas is available in landscape, portrait, and square variants.
Right-clicking a placed canvas with a board of wood cycles through different frame designs for the canvas.
Fresco plaster
Fresco plaster can be applied to chiselled blocks, much like wallpaper. Fresco blocks function like a canvas on top of a block or sculpture, letting you paint directly onto the world.
Paints
Pigments can be ground in a quern from various materials, and then combined with plant oils in specialised paint jars to create the mod's default paints.
Early-game pigments can be obtained from common materials like clay, ferns, bone, and woad. Paints made from these pigments are somewhat muted, earthy tones. Late-game mineral resources like malachite can be ground into brighter, richer pigments.
Brushes
Available in several sizes, brushes apply whatever paint they have been dipped in onto the easel canvas. Alternatively, while the brush is clean, the brush blends existing colours to create smooth transitions.
Some items can be applied to the canvas directly, functioning like a small paintbrush with a preset colour and opacity. Currently, these include charcoal, chalk, and limestone.
Turpentine
Turpentine is a paint thinner derived from pine resin. While holding a brush, you can right-click a paint jar with turpentine to gradually reduce the opacity of your brush. The more you click, the more translucent your paint strokes will be.
Alternatively, shift + right-clicking the jar will completely clear your current brush, allowing you to use it as a blender.
Palettes
The palette is a utility block that lets you mix paints together. While placed in the world, clicking one of the palette's paint slots with a paint jar adds that paint to the slot. As you add more paint portions to the slot, the colour adjusts to be the average off all added portions. To clear a slot of paint, click it with a jar of turpentine.
To quickly switch between paints, hold the palette in your off-hand while painting. You can then use the tool mode selection key (default: F) to instantly swap.
Roadmap
These features are intended - if technically viable - to be implemented in the future.
- Optional paint consumption during use, to be toggled by config
- Support for painting using left-click in addition to right-click
- Potential support for drawing tablet pressure sensitivity
- Resolution of lingering visual issues in multiplayer
- Exporting paintings
- Frescos - painting art directly onto world blocks
- Including support for chiselled blocks to enable custom signage, painted sculptures, and more
- Including support for non-chiselled blocks, which is surprisingly more technically complicated.
- An artist class that removes off-hand hunger penalties for hammers and palettes
I will not be adding the ability to import images into Vintage Canvas. This would undermine a lot of the achievement in making your own in-world paintings, since it circumvents both the process and the materials required. Consider using the excellent Joy of Painting instead!
Thank you to both Miranda and Affonso for their help in providing code examples, testing, and feature feedback for Vintage Canvas.
Project description from Vintage Story Mod DB.
Pick your setup
Vintage Canvas releases for each Vintage Story version.
Choose the version and loader you play, then open the matching release.
1.22.4
1 loader build1.22.3
1 loader build1.22.2
1 loader build1.22.1
1 loader build1.22.0
1 loader buildCheck the dependencies, then try the file in a copied instance before changing a world you care about.
Recent files
Vintage Canvas versions and loaders
1.2.2
vintagecanvas_1.2.2.zip
28 Jul 2026
Looking for an older file? The official Vintage Story Mod DB project page is in Resources.