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Looking to create a steady supply of mushrooms in your Minecraft world? Whether you need them for food, potions, or building, knowing how to farm mushrooms in minecraft is a valuable skill.

This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about where to find mushrooms, how to plant them, and all the different ways you can use them.

What Can You Do With Mushrooms In Minecraft?

Mushrooms are a surprisingly versatile item in Minecraft. You can use them to create food, brew potions, and even for decoration. The primary uses for both red and brown mushrooms include:

  • Mushroom Stew: This is a basic food item that you can make with either a red mushroom or a brown mushroom and a bowl.

  • Rabbit Stew: This is a more complex food that uses a brown mushroom along with other ingredients.

  • Fermented Spider Eye: Crafted with a spider eye and a brown mushroom, this item is used in potion brewing.

  • Decorative Item: Mushrooms can be placed as decorations or inside a flower pot's model. This is a great way to add detail to your builds.

  • Huge Mushrooms: With bone meal, you can turn a small mushroom into a towering huge mushrooms structure.

  • Farming: You can cultivate mushrooms by planting them on blocks like podzol and allowing them to spread in dark areas.

  • Composting: If you place mushrooms in a composter, they will raise the compost level.

  • Mooshrooms: You can get mushrooms by shearing Mooshrooms. These are a cow like mob that you can find in the mushroom biome. Brown Mooshrooms can also be milked for suspicious stew after eating a small flower.

Where To Find Mushrooms

You can find mushrooms in many different places, but they generally need a light level of 12 or less to grow. The natural generation mushrooms process allows them to appear in a variety of biomes and locations.

Biomes

  • Swamp: These dark and wet biomes are a great place to find mushrooms growing around trees and on the ground.

  • Dark Oak Forests: The large, leafy trees in these forests create lots of shade, which is perfect for mushrooms to grow.

  • Mushroom Fields: This special mushroom biome is covered in mycelium and is home to both brown and red mushrooms.

  • Nether: You can find mushrooms in various parts of the Nether, including on the bedrock ceiling in the Java Edition of the game.

Other Locations

  • Caves: Mushrooms generate in caves, especially in areas with very low light.

  • Fallen Trees: In Bedrock Edition, you can find mushrooms growing on fallen trees in certain forest biomes.

  • Witch Huts: These structures always have a red mushroom inside a flower pots model.

Finding Red Mushrooms

You can find red mushroom in dark areas like caves, dark oak forests, and mushroom fields. They also appear in the Nether. Another way to get them is by shearing a red Mooshroom, which is a cow like mob found in the mushroom biome.

Finding Brown Mushrooms

Brown mushrooms are also found in many places, including the Nether, mushroom fields biome, and overworld biomes with low light. You can commonly find a brown mushroom growing in swamps, dark oak forests, and certain taiga forests. They can also be found in caves and on the Nether roof.

Planting Mushrooms In Minecraft

A great way to get a lot of mushrooms is by setting up a mushroom farm. To plant mushrooms, you need two things: a dark area and a block they can grow on.

  1. Create a dark location: Mushrooms need a light level of 12 or less to spread. You can make this area by building a room with no light sources or by finding a natural cave.

  2. Choose a block: You can plant mushrooms on dirt, mycelium, podzol, or nylium. A special feature of mycelium and podzol is that they allow mushrooms to grow even in sunlight.

  3. Plant them: Place either a red mushroom or a brown mushroom on the proper block.

  4. Wait for them to spread: Mushrooms will naturally spread to any nearby block in the dark area.

  5. Grow giant mushrooms: You can instantly grow a small mushroom into a huge one by using bone meal on it. This is a great way to get a large amount of mushrooms quickly.

Finding A Mushroom Island

Mushroom islands, also known as mushroom fields, are one of the rarest biomes in Minecraft. They are special because they are the only place where Mooshrooms naturally spawn, and no hostile mobs will spawn naturally on the island.

  • Where to search: Mushroom islands are almost always found far out in the deep ocean biomes.

  • Use tools to help: You can use external tools like Chunkbase or AMIDST with your world seed to find the exact location of a mushroom field biome.

  • Explore by air: Flying with an elytra over large ocean areas is a quick way to spot the unique look of a mushroom island.

  • Increase render distance: Having a higher render distance will help you spot the biome from farther away.

  • Be patient: Because these biomes are so rare, finding one can take a lot of luck and persistence. Don’t give up.

How Rare Is A Mushroom Island?

Mushroom Islands are one of the rarest biomes in the game, making up only about 0.15% of the overworld. They are typically found as isolated islands surrounded by deep ocean biomes, far away from other land. A unique feature of this mushroom biome is that hostile mobs will not spawn naturally, which makes it a haven. This is also the only place where Mooshrooms, the cow-like mob, will spawn naturally.

Natural Mushroom Generation in Minecraft

Mushrooms are one of the most fascinating items in Minecraft due to their unique behavior and utility.

Players can generate brown mushrooms and generate red mushrooms in dark conditions or specific biomes like the jungle biome, where mushrooms naturally generate under the dense canopy.

You might also spot Mushrooms in the woodland mansion mushroom room, where brown mushrooms illuminating dim corners act as a natural light source.

Mushrooms can appear on grass blocks, soul soil, and other blocks that allow their growth. However, they no longer generate naturally in bright areas, and when exposed to direct light, mushrooms disappear or fall from the broken block.

Sometimes, fewer than five mushrooms grow in a small area, especially when the surrounding blocks aren’t ideal. When added mushrooms are placed incorrectly or on unstable terrain, they may vanish or become barely visible.

Harvesting & Using Mushrooms

You can gather mushrooms by obtaining breaking mushrooms, which drop the block’s direct item form.

Then, with a crafting table, you can make mushroom soup, a reliable and easy-to-make food source. Potted mushrooms are also perfect for adding natural flair to your home builds.

While exploring other biomes, be on the lookout for original mushroom structures that offer huge drops when appropriately broken.

Sometimes, when mushrooms are being broken, they might affect blocks located upward or trigger a block jump glitch.

Strange generation bugs can also lead to missing mushrooms or accidents from poor placement, especially if you fall on a fall damage block or experience fall damage land issues.

Even though mushrooms don’t emit light, their presence in shady spaces helps with orientation. Their usage of mushrooms ranges from food to farming and decor. They can also grow on the same type of block repeatedly, helping you build a reliable mushroom farm. Newer updates have shown mushrooms generating naturally in tighter zones, but with mixed results.