Mushroom

A mushroom is a variety of fungus that grows and spreads in dark areas. Mushrooms generate as red or brown in color, and small or huge in size.

Obtaining

Breaking

Mushrooms can be instantly mined with anything. Mining a huge mushroom block drops up to 2 mushrooms of the same color. Fortune does not affect the drop rate of mushrooms in any form.^[1]

A mushroom also breaks instantly and drops as an item if:

the block below it is moved or destroyed;
a fluid flows over it;
the mushroom is not on podzol, mycelium, or nylium, the light level is 13 or higher, and a state of a block next to it changes.

Natural generation

Mushrooms naturally generate in poorly lit areas (light level of 12 or less). If this condition is met, each chunk has ¹⁄₈ (12.5%) chance to generate red mushroom and ¹⁄₄ (25.0%) chance to generate brown mushroom, in the form of random patches.

Mushrooms also generate on surface in swamp, old growth taiga, mushroom fields biomes, and anywhere in the Nether.

In Java Edition, they are commonly found in patches on the bedrock ceiling of the Nether, and are the only blocks that can generate there.

Witch huts have a flower pot with a red mushroom inside. Mushrooms are also supposed to generate inside "mushroom farm" rooms in woodland mansions, although in Java Edition they do not generate there due to a bug.^[2]

Fallen trees

In Bedrock Edition, fallen oak, birch, spruce, and jungle trees have 0–2 mushroom generated on them.

Mob loot

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

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Bedrock Edition
Brown Mushroom	Bonus chest	Chest	1–2	100%

Trading

Mushrooms can be bought from wandering trader for an emerald.

Usage

Mushrooms can be planted and grown on blocks that have a full top surface in light levels below 13 and not directly underneath the sky. They cannot be planted on the top surfaces of slabs or stairs.^[3] For more information, see Opacity/Placement. If planted on mycelium, podzol or nylium, they can stay planted in any light level, including be planted and remain under light from sky above. Both brown and red mushrooms grow at the same rate regardless of the light level.^[4]^[5]

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 (grass block, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt or moss block at a light level of 12 or below; on podzol, mycelium or nylium at any light level) and has enough space (7×7×8).

Spread

When receiving a random tick, a mushroom has a chance of spreading to a nearby block (including even above and below diagonally) if there are fewer than five mushrooms of the same type in a 9×9×3 volume around the original mushroom.

Light source

Brown mushrooms emit a barely visible light level of 1, which is an intended behavior.^[6] However, they do not emit light in flower pots.^[7]

Decoration

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

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Fermented Spider Eye	Brown Mushroom + Sugar + Spider Eye
Mushroom Stew	Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl
Rabbit Stew	Cooked Rabbit + Carrot + Baked Potato + Any Mushroom + Bowl
Suspicious Stew	Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl + Any Flower

Composting

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

Sounds

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.grass.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.grass.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.grass.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.grass.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.grass.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.grass`	0.7	0.8-1.0
Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.grass`	0.8	0.8-1.0
Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.grass`	0.3	0.5
Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.grass`	0.4	1.0
Players	Walking on the block	`step.grass`	0.3	1.0
Players	Jumping from the block	`jump.grass`	0.11	1.0
Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.grass`	0.21	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Brown Mushroom	`brown_mushroom`	Block & Item	`enderman_holdable`	`block.minecraft.brown_mushroom`
Red Mushroom	`red_mushroom`	Block & Item	`enderman_holdable`	`block.minecraft.red_mushroom`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Brown Mushroom	`brown_mushroom`	`39`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.brown_mushroom.name`
Red Mushroom	`red_mushroom`	`40`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.red_mushroom.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ ^a ^b Available with /give command.
↑ ^a ^b The block's direct item form has the same id with the block.

History

Java Edition Classic
0.0.20a					Added red and brown mushrooms.
					Mushrooms disappear when the light level is too low.
					Mushrooms are decorative items, which currently do not have a crafting use and remain in the ground when planted.
					Mushrooms can be placed on any block except another mushroom and remain planted when the block below them is removed.
August 25, 2009					Notch showed mushrooms generating naturally in worlds.^[8]
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST					Added mushrooms to world generation.
					The consumption of brown mushrooms now heals 5.
					The consumption of red mushrooms now causes 3 damage to the player's health.
0.25 SURVIVAL TEST					Pigs drop 0-2 brown mushrooms.
?					Mushrooms now spawn only underground.
Java Edition Indev
0.31		20091223-1			Mushrooms now have a stretched model with wider texture planes.
		20100130			Red and brown mushrooms are now used to craft mushroom stew.
		20100131			Brown mushrooms now emit light.
?					Mushrooms are now generated in rare instances under trees or in the shadows of other floating continents in the "Floating" map type.
Java Edition Infdev
20100616					Mushrooms can now naturally generate again.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0		preview			With the addition of biomes and the dimly-lit Nether, mushrooms have become a more common sight.
Java Edition Beta
1.6		Test Build 3			Mushrooms can now be generated in the open when exploring during the 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 pop out of the ground. Several bug reports mention mushrooms growing on top of trees, but this is a rare phenomenon.
					Mushrooms have been given an ability to spread in light levels under 13 onto any block touching their own, including blocks located upward and downward diagonally.
					Mushrooms can now be placed on any solid, non-transparent, block including pumpkins, workbenches, furnaces and chests.
1.8		Pre-release			Changed lighting.
					Bone meal can now be used on mushrooms to grow huge mushrooms.
					Mushrooms can now be found more easily in swamp biomes.
		?			The spreading ability of mushrooms has been severely restricted - a mushroom now spreads if there were fewer than 5 mushrooms of the same type in a 9×9×3 area around the original mushroom.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Mushrooms can now spawn in mushroom island biomes.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Shearing a mooshroom drops 5 red mushrooms.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Brown mushrooms are now used to craft fermented spider eyes.
1.4.2		12w34a			Mushrooms can now be added to flower pots.
1.7.2		13w36a			Added podzol, which allows mushrooms to grow on it regardless of the light level.
1.8		14w07a			Mushroom texture planes are no longer stretched by a factor of sqrt(2).
		14w10c			Mushroom texture planes are now stretched a bit more than they were previously - were the texture full, it would reach the corners of the block.
		14w17a			Mushroom texture planes are now the same size as they were before 14w07a.
		14w17a			The flower pot's model has changed, resulting in a change of appearance to potted mushrooms.
		14w25a			Mushrooms are now affected by the same shading full blocks are.
		14w25a			This also applies to when in pots.
		14w26a			Mushrooms are no longer subject to shading.
		14w26a			As of 22w18a, this is still yet to be fixed for potted mushrooms.^[9]
		14w27a			Red or brown mushrooms are now used to craft rabbit stew.
1.11		16w39a			Mushrooms now generate in woodland mansions.
1.13		17w47a			The names of mushrooms have been changed to "Brown Mushroom" and Red Mushroom," respectively.
1.13		17w47a			Mushrooms can now be found in the flower pots inside of witch huts.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of mushrooms have been changed.
		18w43a			Mushrooms can now be used to craft suspicious stew.
		19w03a			Placing a mushroom into a 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.
		19w05a			Added wandering traders, which sell both types of mushrooms.
1.16		20w07a			Both red and brown mushrooms have a ¹⁰⁄₁₀₉ (~9.17%) chance of being given by the new piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–4.
1.16		20w09a			Red and brown mushrooms can no longer be obtained through bartering with piglins.
1.16.2		20w27a			Red and brown mushrooms can now be placed and grown on nylium at any light level.
1.17		21w11a			Changed lighting.
1.18		21w39a			The default brightness has been changed from "Moody" to 50.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release					^[verify] Added mushrooms. They could generate or be placed in any light level.
v0.4.0					Red mushrooms can now be smelted to obtain rose red.
v0.4.0					Red and brown mushrooms are now used to craft mushroom stew.
v0.5.0					Mushrooms now spread.
					Mushrooms can now only be generated or placed in areas with low light, making them significantly less common.
					Mushrooms are now obtainable after activating the nether reactor.
v0.9.0		build 1			Added huge mushrooms, which can be grown by applying bone meal to mushrooms.
v0.9.0		build 1			Shearing a mooshroom now drops red mushrooms.
v0.12.1		build 1			Brown mushrooms are now used to craft fermented spider eyes.
					Mushrooms can now occupy the same space as snow.
					Mushrooms are no longer available from the nether reactor.
					Red mushrooms can no longer be smelted to obtain rose red.
v0.14.0		build 1			Potted red mushrooms now generate in swamp huts.
v0.14.0		build 3			Hitboxes of mushrooms no longer occupy an entire block.
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 mushrooms can now be found in bonus chests.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of mushrooms have been changed.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Mushrooms are now sold by wandering traders.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Mushrooms can now be used to fill composters.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Mushrooms can now be used to craft suspicious stews.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			The names of mushrooms have been changed to "Brown Mushroom" and "Red Mushroom," respectively.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.54			Red and brown mushrooms can now be placed on nylium.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	^[verify] Added mushrooms.
		1.90			The textures of mushrooms have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					^[verify] Added mushrooms.

Data history

Java Edition
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 39 and 40.

Issues

Issues relating to "Mushroom" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

The red mushroom is based on the poisonous Amanita muscaria (fly agaric), while the brown mushroom is based on the edible Boletus edulis (penny bun).^[10]