As a sandbox game, Terraria has plenty of ways for players to customize it. One of the more fun elements of the game is creating a home to live in and making it as cool-looking as possible. There are plenty of furniture items in the game, but one type that stands out is the paintings.
Players who are able to acquire these paintings can hang them on any service to add a neat wall decoration to a room. These paintings are not craftable, so there are specific ways in which they can be obtained that players will need to look out for.
How Paintings Work
Paintings serve no other major purpose outside of pure decoration for the player's background walls. The images in each of the paintings in the game are meant to reflect something related to Terraria itself, with some even being direct parodies of famous paintings from real life. Each painting also has its own tooltip that contains the name of the painting's "artist" but are either just fake names or names of the actual sprite designers for Terraria. Paintings come in various different sizes including 3x3, 3x2, 2x3, 3x4, and 6x4.
Where To Find These Paintings
There are 108 paintings currently in Terraria, with 11 different places that players can check in on. They range from being sold by specific individuals, randomly generating in a part of the world, and being given directly to the player through different means.
The Golfer
Head to the Underground Desert to find The Golfer. They will be selling paintings for one gold coin each. They include:
• The Rolling Greens (6x4)
• Study of a Ball at Rest (2x3)
• Fore! (3x3)
• The Duplicity of Reflections (3x2)
The Painter
Players will need to have an empty house and at least eight town NPCs in the world to spawn The Painter. They will also sell 3x2 paintings for one gold coin each, but paintings will depend on moon phases and what biome they are in. They include:
• Bloody Goblet (Must be in a Graveyard)
• Cold Waters in the White Land (Must be in a Snow biome)
• Daylight (Available at all times and locations)
• Deadland Comes Alive (Must be in a Crimson biome)
• Do Not Step on the Grass (Must be in a Jungle biome)
• Evil Presence (During Blood Moon)
• First Encounter (During Moon Phase 1-2)
• Ghose Manifestation (Must be in a Graveyard)
• Good Morning (During Moon Phase 3-4)
• Graveyard (Must be in a Graveyard)
• The Land of Deceiving Looks (Must be in a Hallow biome)
• Lightless Chasms (Must be in a Corruption biome)
• Nevermore (Must be in a Graveyard)
• Place Above the Clouds (Must be in Space)
• Reborn (Must be in a Graveyard)
• Secret of the Sands (Must be in a Desert biome)
• Sky Guardians (Must be in Space during Hardmode)
• Still Life (Must be in a Graveyard)
• Through the Window (During Moon Phase 7-8)
• Underground Reward (During Moon Phase 5-6)
• Wicked Undead (Must be in a Graveyard)
Princess
After defeating Plantera, it is possible to have all town NPCs be spawned. The Princess will spawn once all other town NPCs are around and if there is an empty house available. She sells paintings for 10 gold coins each. They include:
• Princess 64 (6x4)
• Painting of a Lass (2x3)
• Dark Side of the Hallow (3x3)
Traveling Merchant
The Traveling Merchant will show up occasionally when the world has at least two other NPCs present. Among other things, they sell 6x4 paintings. They include:
• Acorns (50 silver coins)
• Castle Marsberg (2 gold coints)
• Cold Snap (50 silver coins)
• Cursed Saint (50 silver coins)
• Martia Lisa (2 gold coins)
• Not a Kid, nor a Squid (3 gold coins)
• The Season (50 silver coins)
• Snowfellas (50 silver coins)
• The Truth Is Up There (2 gold coins)
Underground Cabins
There are a total of 29 paintings that naturally generated in Underground Cabins throughout the world. The ones that are located in all biomes include:
• American Explosive (2x3)
• Crowno Devours His Lunch (3x3)
• Discover (3x3)
• Father of Someone (3x3)
• Finding Gold (3x2)
• Glorious Night (2x3)
• Guide Picasso (3x3)
• Land (2x3)
• Nurse Lisa (3x3)
• Old Miner (3x3)
• Rare Enchantment (3x3)
• Sunflowers (3x3)
• Terrarian Gothic (3x3)
• The Merchant (3x3)
• Waldo (2x3)
14 paintings are generated exclusively in Desert Underground Cabins. These include:
• Ancient Tablet (6x4)
• Andrew Sphinx(3x3)
• Bandage Boy (2x3)
• Burning Spirit (3x3)
• Divine Eye (2x3)
• Jaws of Death (3x3)
• Life Above the Sand (6x4)
• Oasis (6x4)
• Prehistory Preserved (6x4)
• Snakes, I Hate Snakes (3x3)
• The Sands of Slime (3x3)
• Uluru (6x4)
• Visiting the Pyramids (6x4)
• Watchful Antlion (3x3)
Dungeon
The massive labyrinth the resides beneath the world has its own fair share of wall decorations, including 24 different paintings that can generate in the dungeons.
• Blood Moon Rising (3x3)
• Bone Wrap (3x3)
• The Creation of the Guide (6x4)
• The Cursed Man (3x3)
• The Destroyer (6x4)
• Dryadisque (6x4)
• The Eye Sees the End (6x4)
• Facing the Cerebral Mastermind (6x4)
• Glory of the Fire (3x3)
• Goblins Playing Poker (6x4)
• Great Wave (6x4)
• The Guardian's Gaze (3x3)
• The Hanged Man (3x3)
• Impact (6x4)
• The Persistency of Eyes (6x4)
• Powered by Birds (6x4)
• The Screamer (6x4)
• Skellington J. Skellingsworth (3x3)
• Sparky (6x4)
• Something Evil is Watching You (6x4)
• Starry Night (6x4)
• Trio Super Heroes (6x4)
• The Twins Have Awoken (6x4)
• Unicorn Crossing the Hallows (6x4)
The Underworld
Digging deep enough will get players to The Underworld, where players will find that there are even some paintings in this lava-filled region. The 12 Underworld paintings are:
• Dark Soul Reaper (2x3)
• Darkness (2x3)
• Demon's Eye (3x2)
• Flowing Magma (3x2)
• Hand Earth (3x3)
• Imp Face (3x3)
• Lake of Fire (6x4)
• Living Gore (3x2)
• Ominous Presence (3x3)
• Shining Moon (3x3)
• Skelehead (3x3)
• Trapped Ghost (2x3)
Other Paintings
Of the remaining six paintings, one 6x4 painting called "Pillagin Me Pixels" can be given to the player randomly by the Angler upon completing one of their quests. The remaining five can be found in Goodie Bags dropped by enemies during the Halloween event. These paintings are:
• Bitter Harvest (6x4)
• Blood Moon Countress (6x4)
• Hallow's Eve (6x4)
• Jacking Skeletron (6x4)
• Morbid Curiosity (6x4)