Mushroom

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 "field": "Yes",
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 "field": "No",
 "label": "(link to Flammable article, displayed as Flammable)"
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 "field": "No",
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Mushrooms are fungi that generate and spread in dark areas. They can be placed on mycelium, nylium, podzol, or any block with a full top surface when the light level is below 13, which also allows them to grow into huge mushrooms with the use of bone meal.

There are three mushroom variants:

• 👁 Image
  Red Mushroom
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  Brown Mushroom
• 👁 Image
  Shelf Mushroom​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

Mushrooms can be instantly mined with any tool, including by hand. 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 it is on is moved or destroyed
• a fluid flows onto it
• a block next to it changes state, but only when it is not on podzol, mycelium, or nylium and light level is 13 or higher

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.^[2]

Mushrooms also generate on the surface of a swamp, old growth spruce taiga, old growth pine taiga, or mushroom fields biome, along with anywhere in the Nether. Unlike plants, they are able to generate on top of nearly any block type.

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

Witch huts have a flower pot with a red mushroom inside. Mushrooms also generate inside "mushroom farm" rooms in woodland mansions.

Red mushrooms planted on podzol can also be found around bogged and cave spider trial spawners in trial chambers.

Fallen trees can have up to 2 mushrooms generated on them.

Mining a huge mushroom of either color has a chance of dropping a mushroom of the same color, for each block mined.

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

Shearing a bogged drops 2 mushrooms, which could be 2 brown mushrooms, 2 red mushrooms or one of each.

An enderman holding a mushroom may drop it upon death.

In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders have a chance of 8.5% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop 3 mushrooms when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.

Wandering traders may sell 3 mushrooms of either color for 1 emerald.

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 skylight. Both brown and red mushrooms grow at the same rate regardless of the light level.^[4][5]

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, mud, muddy mangrove roots, moss block, or pale moss block at a light level of 12 or below; on podzol, mycelium or nylium at any light level) and is free of solid blocks within 5 blocks directly above the mushroom.

When receiving a random tick, a mushroom has a 4% 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.

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

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

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Issues relating to "Mushroom" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• 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]

• 👁 Mushrooms found in a swamp biome.
  
  Mushrooms found in a swamp biome.
• 👁 Mushrooms growing in a stronghold cell.
  
  Mushrooms growing in a stronghold cell.
• 👁 A brown mushroom growing on a tree.
  
  A brown mushroom growing on a tree.
• 👁 Mushrooms growing in the Nether.
  
  Mushrooms growing in the Nether.
• 👁 An example of a mushroom fields biome.
  
  An example of a mushroom fields biome.
• 👁 A red mushroom growing on a cluster of glowstone in the Nether.
  
  A red mushroom growing on a cluster of glowstone in the Nether.
• 👁 The rare occurrence of a mushroom growing on mossy cobblestone in a dungeon.
  
  The rare occurrence of a mushroom growing on mossy cobblestone in a dungeon.
• 👁 Mushrooms growing on podzol.
  
  Mushrooms growing on podzol.
• 👁 Mushrooms growing on mycelium in a mushroom fields biome.
  
  Mushrooms growing on mycelium in a mushroom fields biome.
• 👁 Brown mushrooms illuminating a red mushroom and surrounding blocks.
  
  Brown mushrooms illuminating a red mushroom and surrounding blocks.
• 👁 Red Mushrooms can spawn naturally on magma blocks in the Nether.
  
  Red Mushrooms can spawn naturally on magma blocks in the Nether.
• 👁 A large amount of mushrooms generated on a beach.
  
  A large amount of mushrooms generated on a beach.

• 👁 A screenshot of two large red mushroom trees in Minecraft.
  
  Two large red mushroom trees.

• "Taking Inventory: Mushroom" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, December 21, 2018.