Mushroom

Mushroom

Type	Ingredient Block
Rarity	Common
Restores	None
Cookable	No
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Luminance	Yes, 1 (brown mushroom only)
Data values	See § Data values
Name	See § Data values

This article is about the plant. For the cube, see Mushroom Block. For the structure, see Huge mushroom. For other uses, see Mushroom (disambiguation).

	“	Wait, go back a minute. Plant life? NO! Mushrooms aren’t actually plants. All plants contain a chemical called chlorophyll which they use to turn sunlight into energy, and which also makes them green, but mushrooms don’t have chlorophyll at all. Instead, they get their energy by breaking down decaying organic matter. So what are they then? They’re fungi, which is a category all of its own, and also includes yeasts and moulds. Fungi don’t get as much attention as plants, because they tend to live in soil or underground where they can’t be seen. In fact, they’re genetically closer to animals than they are plants. Think about that next time you cook up a mushroom stew.	„
		— Duncan Geere

Mushrooms are fungi that grow and spread in dark areas.

Obtaining

Mushrooms can be instantly mined with anything.

Natural generation

Mushrooms naturally generate in poorly lit areas (light level of 12 or less), as well as in mushroom fields biomes and the Nether.

Witch huts have a flower pot with a red mushroom inside.‌^{[Bedrock and Java editions only]} Mushrooms also generate inside woodland mansions.

In Bedrock Edition brown mushrooms can be found in all bonus chests in stacks of 1–2.

Huge mushrooms

Mining a huge mushroom block drops up to 2 mushrooms of the same color.

Mobs

Shearing a red or brown mooshroom drops 5 mushrooms of the corresponding color and turns it into a normal cow.

Trading

Mushroom can be bought from wandering trader for an emerald.

Usage

Mushrooms can be planted and grown on blocks in light levels below 13 and not directly underneath the sky. If planted on mycelium or podzol, they can stay planted in any light level. Both brown and red mushrooms grow at the same rate regardless of light level.

Besides being mined directly, mushrooms are dropped as items if:

• the block below them falls, is moved, or destroyed;
• a fluid flows over them;
• it is above light level 12 and a block updates next to it and it is not on podzol or mycelium.

Huge mushrooms

When bone meal is applied to a mushroom, the mushroom has a chance to grow into a huge mushroom of the same color, provided that it is on a proper block (dirt, coarse dirt, grass, podzol or mycelium), has enough space, and that the light level is dark enough.

Spread

See also: Tutorials/Mushroom farming

Mushrooms will spread randomly onto nearby blocks when in appropriate conditions. They will spread only if there are fewer than 5 mushrooms of the same type in 9×9×3 area.

Light source

Brown mushrooms emit a barely visible light level of 1.

Decoration

Either type of mushroom can be planted in a flower pot.

Composting

Placing a mushroom into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Data values

ID

Block	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID ‌[BE only]
Brown mushroom	brown_mushroom	39
Red mushroom	red_mushroom	40

History

Java Edition Classic
0.0.20a					Red and brown mushrooms added.
					Mushrooms were a decorative item, having no crafting use and remaining in the ground when planted. Mushrooms could be placed on any block except another mushroom, and would remain planted when the block below them was removed.
					Pigs had a chance of dropping red mushrooms and sheep dropped brown mushrooms.
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST					Consumption of a brown mushroom healed 5 (). Consumption of a red mushroom causes 3 () damage to the player's health.
?					Mushrooms now only spawn underground.
Java Edition Indev
?					Mushrooms were generated in rare instances under trees or in the shadows of other floating continents in the "Floating" map type.
0.31		2010-01-29			Red and brown mushrooms are now used to craft mushroom stew.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0		preview			With the addition of biomes and the dimly-lit Nether, mushrooms became a more common sight.
Java Edition Beta
1.6		?			Mushrooms could be generated in the open when exploring during night, or under low-light conditions such as those found under trees or overhangs. If planted in direct sunlight or a light level higher than 12 they popped out of the ground. Several bug reports mentioned mushrooms growing on top of trees, but this was a very rare phenomenon.
					Mushrooms were given an ability to spread in light levels under 13 onto any block touching their own, including blocks located upwards and downwards diagonally. Mushrooms could be placed on any solid, non-transparent, block including pumpkins, workbenches, furnaces, and chests.
1.8		?			Mushrooms' spreading ability was severely restricted - a mushroom would only spread if there were fewer than 5 mushrooms of the same type in a 9×9×3 area around the original mushroom.
					Bone meal can be used on mushrooms to grow new huge mushrooms.
					Mushrooms could also be found more easily in the new swamp biomes.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Mushrooms can now spawn in new mushroom island biome.
					Shearing a mooshroom drops 5 red mushrooms.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Brown mushrooms are now used to craft fermented spider eyes.
1.7.2		13w36a			Added podzol, which allows mushrooms to grow on it regardless of the light level.
1.8		14w27a			Red or brown mushrooms are now used to craft rabbit stew.
1.11		16w39a			Mushrooms now generate in woodland mansions.
1.13		17w47a			Changed names to brown mushroom and red mushroom, respecitvely.
					Mushrooms can now be found in the flower pots inside of witch huts.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 39 and 40.
1.14		18w43a			Mushrooms can now be used to craft suspicious stew.
		19w03a			Placing a mushroom into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Mushrooms now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0					Added mushrooms.
0.4.0					Red mushrooms can be smelted to obtain rose red.
					Red and brown mushrooms are now used to craft mushroom stew.
0.5.0					Mushrooms now spread.
0.9.0		build 1			Added huge mushrooms.
					Shearing a mooshroom drops red mushrooms.
0.12.1		build 1			Mushrooms are no longer available from the Nether reactor.
					Brown mushrooms are now used to craft fermented spider eyes.
0.14.0		build 1			Potted red mushroom generate in swamp hut.
		build 3			Hitboxes of mushrooms no longer occupy an entire block.
0.15.0					Red mushrooms can no longer be smelted to obtain rose red.
?					Mushrooms can now occupy the same space as snow layers.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Mushrooms now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Brown mushroom can be found in bonus chest.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Mushrooms are now sold by new wandering trader.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Mushrooms can be used to fill composter.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added mushrooms.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added Mushrooms.

Trivia

• Mushrooms can generate on the leaves of trees.

Gallery

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  Mushrooms found in a swamp biome.

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  Mushrooms growing in a stronghold cell.

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  A brown mushroom growing on a tree.

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  Mushrooms growing in the Nether.

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  An example of a mushroom fields biome.

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  A red mushroom growing on a cluster of glowstone in the nether.

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  The rare occurrence of a mushroom growing on mossy cobblestone in a dungeon.

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  Mushrooms growing on podzol.

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  Mushrooms growing on mycelium in a mushroom fields biome.

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  Brown mushrooms illuminating a red mushroom and surrounding blocks.

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  Red Mushrooms can spawn naturally on Magma Blocks in the Nether.

References

Blocks

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