About Us — MinecraftPixelArt.com

MinecraftPixelArt.com is a free, browser-based tool that turns any photograph, drawing or logo into Minecraft block art. You upload an image, choose how many blocks wide and tall you want the finished build to be, and the tool works out which Minecraft block is the closest colour match for every single position in that grid.

Why we built it

Pixel art is one of the most popular things people build in Minecraft, and one of the most tedious to plan. Working out by eye which of nearly two hundred blocks matches a particular shade of skin tone or sky is slow, and getting it wrong means tearing down hours of work. Existing converters were either desktop applications that needed installing, or they produced a flat picture with no way to fix the parts the algorithm got wrong.

We wanted something that ran in a browser on any device, gave you a real editor to correct the output, and told you exactly how many of each block you would need before you started digging.

How the tool works

Every Minecraft block in our database is stored with its average colour converted into the CIELAB colour space. CIELAB is designed so that the mathematical distance between two colours roughly matches how different they look to a human eye, which is not true of plain RGB. For each pixel of your resized image we measure the distance to every block in the selected palette and pick the nearest one. Optional Floyd–Steinberg dithering spreads the leftover colour error into neighbouring pixels, which lets a limited palette imitate shades it does not actually contain.

All of this runs inside your own browser using JavaScript and a Web Worker. Your image is never uploaded to us, never stored on a server, and never seen by anyone but you.

What you can do with it

Convert any PNG, JPG, BMP or WEBP image into a Minecraft block grid up to 1024 × 1024 blocks
Crop and reframe your image before converting, so the subject fills the build
Restrict the palette to survival-obtainable blocks, or hand-pick individual blocks
Exclude gravity-affected, transparent, redstone-powered or light-emitting blocks
Fix the result in a full editor with pencil, brush, bucket fill, eyedropper, bulk block replacement and unlimited undo
See a complete material list showing how many of each block your build needs
Export a high-resolution PNG reference image, a .mcfunction datapack file, or command-block commands

Who we are

MinecraftPixelArt.com is built and maintained by a small independent team of web developers who also play Minecraft. We are not a company with a sales department; we are people who wanted this tool to exist and decided to build it properly. The site is supported by advertising, which is what keeps it free to use with no account, no sign-up and no usage limits.

Our commitments

We keep the tool free. We do not require registration. We do not upload, collect or store the images you convert. We do not sell personal information. When we add a feature, we try to make it work on a mid-range phone and not just a fast desktop, because a large share of our visitors are on mobile.

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