How to grow mushrooms in Minecraft

Minecraft allows you to grow crops by planting seeds of different plants. This has become a fairly iconic feature as it is useful throughout the progression. In addition to crops, there are other plant items that can be cultivated. They are seedlings that grow naturally or with the help of bone meal and become various trees. In this article, we’ll focus on mushrooms, a common type of fungi, and show you how to grow them in Minecraft.

Minecraft mushroom types

Not every real-world mushroom variant exists in Minecraft, but it has everything you need. Depending on the color , there are red and brown mushrooms in Minecraft. Red mushrooms have a red cap with white dots and a yellowish stem. Brown mushrooms are completely brown.

Additionally, if you believe that eating red mushrooms will have bad consequences in this game, that’s actually not true. Neither red nor brown mushrooms are edible in Minecraft and are primarily used as materials.

There is another classification of mushrooms in Minecraft, and that depends on the size of the mushroom. Regular mushroom items have small variations, but there are also huge variations of the same color. These act like a tree, with a complete stem block creating the trunk and a complete mushroom block creating the crown. Both types have the same stem block, but the canopy block and canopy shape are different. These giant variants have their own uses, which we will discuss later in this article.

How to get mushrooms naturally in Minecraft

Obtaining mushrooms in the Minecraft world is not that difficult. They breed in dimly lit areas with light levels below 12 . They spawn on wetland surfaces, old growth taiga biomes, and especially mushroom fields/islands where mycelium covers the entire surface.

Small mushroom variants also spawn basically anywhere in the Nether dimension. They can be found in any biome, and in Java Edition they can also be found on bedrock roofs. Giant mushrooms often appear in dark oak forest biomes and mushroom fields. Both color variants are produced there in large quantities.

In addition, small mushrooms can be easily and instantly broken with any tool or hands. On the other hand, to get blocks of mushrooms and stems, you need to destroy them using Silk Touch’s magical tools , preferably an axe. Breaking a mushroom block without Silk Touch gives you a chance to get up to 2 mushroom items of the same color.

Destroying a stem block yields the same drop as a mushroom block in Bedrock Edition, but nothing in Java Edition. The Minecraft Luck enchantment has no effect on mushroom drops at all.

How to find soil and grow mushrooms in Minecraft

Mushrooms thrive and spread in less bright areas, with light levels below 12. This means you can place some blocks above the area to create a dimly lit space. If you are playing in Java Edition, use the F3 debug screen to check light levels. Then plant the mushrooms and wait for them to spread naturally. This is a quick and easy way to spread mushrooms, but there are better ways. In the next block you can plant mushrooms regardless of the light level.

• Podzol – Produces in old growth taiga and bamboo jungles. It is also very easy to produce after growing the giant spruce tree variant. Surrounding grass and dirt blocks are converted to podzol in the process. Podzol will never return to grass.
• Mycelium – This block covers the surface of the mushroom field and is the only place where mycelium is produced. It is renewable because it spreads to adjacent dirt blocks at light level 9 and above. A mycelium block will return to soil if you place a complete solid block on top of it.
• Nylium – Warp Nylium and Crimson Nylium generate in the Nether’s Warp and Crimson Forest biomes, respectively.

Silk Touch enchantment is required to obtain all the blocks listed above. By collecting these blocks and spreading mushrooms on them, you can grow mushrooms more freely. Additionally, please note that the requirements still need to be met in order for mushrooms to grow and spread on these blocks. Therefore, the surrounding blocks must also be one of the above or have a light level below 13.

How to grow giant mushrooms in Minecraft

Although subspecies of giant mushroom look like trees, they do not behave in the same way. Trees will naturally grow randomly from saplings, but giant mushrooms will not naturally grow from small mushrooms. The only way to grow giant mushrooms is to use bone meal on small mushrooms . Giant mushrooms of the same color will spawn approximately 40% of the time, and heights may vary. It also requires a 7x7x8 block area with no solid blocks to spawn. It will not grow without proper space.

Best uses for mushrooms in Minecraft

Mushrooms are one of those items that have a lot of uses in Minecraft, so let’s take a look at them all. Here we have discussed four different ways to use mushrooms.

1. Craft materials

Place brown mushrooms, sugar, and spider eyes on a crafting table to create fermented spider eyes . This item is a fairly important potion brewing material as it allows you to create a Weakening Potion to treat zombie villagers. Also, if you are short on sugar cane fields, read our guide on how to create a sugar cane field.

In addition, mushrooms will help you create stew cooking items in Minecraft. One of them is mushroom stew . All you need to make is red and brown mushrooms and a bowl. Restores 3 hunger points and 7.2 saturation points.

The next stew is Minecraft’s questionable stew . This is a special item because, similar to beacons and conduits, it provides some kind of buff or debuff to the player for a short period of time. If you’re interested in this strange food, check out our guide about it.

The final stew is rabbit stew , but the recipe is expensive. You will need a cooked rabbit, carrots, baked potatoes, mushrooms and a bowl. This food item restores a total of 5 hunger points and 12 saturation points.

2. Buildings and decorations

The brown mushroom block is one of the most frequently used building blocks in Minecraft. Earth tones pair well with blocks such as packed mud, mud bricks, jungle planks, stripped jungle logs and wood. Additionally, stem blocks don’t have too complex textures and colors can be easily blended with other blocks. One of the most unique features of mushroom blocks is their hidden texture.

When you attach a mushroom block to another mushroom block, the main texture on that side is replaced with a texture representing the inside of the mushroom with small holes. Simply remove the attached block, leaving an exposed texture. In addition to building with mushrooms and stem blocks, you can also place small mushrooms of both colors in flower pots.

3. Light source

It’s a bit silly, but as mentioned in the article about all light sources in Minecraft, brown mushrooms emit light level 1. This feature is actually useful, for example in some farm designs. It does not emit light inside a flowerpot.

4. Composting

This is a great use for mushrooms if you have a ton of them and don’t know why. When a mushroom is placed in a composter, there is a 65% chance that a layer will be created within it . When the Composter is full, it will create 1 Bone Meal, which can be used to grow more Giant Mushrooms.