How to Grow Mushrooms in Minecraft

Minecraft grants plenty of ways to plant seeds and grow a ton of useful crops in the game. You can plant wheat, carrots, trees, and many unusual fungi as well. Among all, mushrooms can be a bit tricky to grow because they have certain light conditions and blocks on which you can place them. So, check this guide to learn how to grow mushrooms in Minecraft and use them in essential stews.

How to Grow Giant Mushrooms in Minecraft

The simple answer to how to grow mushrooms in Minecraft comes down to satisfying two conditions: light level and the block underneath the mushroom.

Under normal conditions, mushrooms require a sufficiently dark environment in order to be placed. A light level lower than 12 is best for growing mushrooms. Once you’re able to plant them, you can grow the small fungi by using Bone Meal in Minecraft. However, make sure that the place isn’t completely dark, because it can allow the hostile Minecraft mobs to spawn in the same area.

Now, if you want to bypass the light restriction, here are the blocks on which you can place and grow mushrooms at any time:

• Podzol: It generates in the old-growth taiga and bamboo forest biomes of Minecraft.
• Mycelium: It spawns in the mushroom fields biome.
• Nylium: You can find it in the Nether biome, and it comes in two variants: Crimson Nylium and Warped Nylium, both of which are capable of growing mushrooms in Minecraft.

Using Bone Meal to grow a mushroom grants a 40% chance of making its size bigger. It also needs a 7×7×8 block area free of solid blocks to generate. If it does not have the appropriate space, it won’t grow.

Note: These requirements are only for the brown and red mushrooms in Minecraft. The Shelf Mushroom can only grow on Poplar Trees and behaves differently.

All Types of Mushrooms in Minecraft

There are several mushroom and fungus variants that you can encounter, including Red and Brown mushrooms, Warped Fungus, and Shelf Mushrooms in Minecraft. Understanding these variants is a crucial step in learning how to grow mushrooms in Minecraft. While they’re broadly related to the mushroom block, none of them behave in the same way.

Red Mushroom

Red mushrooms are the familiar red-capped fungi covered with white spots that generate in both the Overworld and the Nether biomes in Minecraft. You can use them in suspicious stews, and they can grow huge when interacted with Bone Meal.

Brown Mushroom

Brown mushrooms are the simple brown fungi that grow in dark areas of the Overworld and Nether. You can find them in swamps, old-growth spruce taiga, old-growth pine taiga, or the mushroom fields biome.

Shelf Mushroom

Shelf Mushrooms are an upcoming feature in the Minecraft 26.3 update that grow specifically on the Poplar trees. So, the Minecraft Dappled Forest biome is the only area where you can find them.

These mushrooms don’t have a light requirement and have a small chance of generating when a Poplar Sapling grows into a tree. A fun fact about these mushrooms is that you can bounce on them.

Warped Fungus

The Warped Fungus is a Nether-exclusive mushroom growing in the Crimson Forests. It behaves differently from other mushroom blocks, as you can place it on many solid blocks other than Podzol, Mycelium, or Nylium. You can also use these mushrooms to scare away the Hoglin mobs in the Nether.

How to Get Mushrooms Naturally in Minecraft

An easy alternative for learning how to grow mushrooms in Minecraft is finding them naturally in the game. Mushrooms are really not difficult to come by in your Minecraft world. They thrive in poorly lit areas, where the light level is 12 or below. You can commonly find them in these areas:

• Swamps
• Dark Oak Forests
• Old Growth Taiga
• Mushroom Fields
• Caves and other poorly lit locations

You can easily spot these biomes and even find some near the spawn location when you go through our list of the best Minecraft seeds.

The small mushroom variant also generates basically everywhere and in the Nether dimension as well. When it comes to giant mushrooms, you will find them commonly spawning in the dark oak forest biomes and mushroom fields.

Furthermore, small mushrooms can be broken easily and instantly with any tool or by hand. Whereas the mushroom and stem blocks need to be broken with a tool having the Silk Touch enchantment in Minecraft. The fortune enchantment in Minecraft doesn’t affect the mushroom drops at all.

Again, note that these are the areas for finding the Red and Brown mushrooms in the game. The other two variants behave differently and have specific spawn locations as discussed above.

Best Uses for Mushrooms in Minecraft

Now that you know how to grow mushrooms in Minecraft, let’s go through all of their uses in the game. We have discussed four different ways to use mushrooms here:

Crafting Ingredient

Here are some of the items that you can craft using mushrooms in Minecraft:

• Fermented Spider Eye: Requires sugar, spider eye, and brown mushroom.
• Mushroom Stew: Made using a bowl, brown and red mushrooms.
• Rabbit Stew: Use a mushroom alongside a carrot, a baked potato, and a bowl.
• Suspicious Stew: Combines mushrooms, a bowl, and any small flower to make a suspicious stew in Minecraft.

Building and Decoration

Brown mushroom blocks are one of the most frequently used building blocks in Minecraft. Their earth tone blends well with blocks such as packed mud, mud bricks, jungle planks, stripped jungle log and wood, and many others.

Moreover, the stem blocks don’t have too busy a texture, and you can easily blend their color with other blocks. One of the most unique features of mushroom blocks is the hidden texture.

When one mushroom block is attached to another one, the main texture on that side is replaced with a texture representing the inside of a mushroom with tiny holes. Simply remove the attached block, and the exposed texture will remain. Besides building with mushroom and stem blocks, you can place small mushrooms of both colors in a flower pot in Minecraft.

Light Source

Even though it’s a little silly, brown mushrooms give off a light level of 1, as we mentioned in our guide about all light sources in Minecraft. This feature can actually be useful, for instance, in some farm designs. They don’t produce light in a flower pot.

Composting

This is a great use for mushrooms if you have them in bulk and also have no idea why. Placing any mushroom in a Minecraft composter has a 65% chance of creating a layer in it. When the composter is full, it’ll create one piece of Bone Meal that can then be used to grow even more giant mushrooms.

So, that is it about how to grow mushrooms in Minecraft. Now you know about their uses as well as the two other mushroom blocks in the game. So, which mushroom are you using in your next Minecraft house idea to make it look prettier? Let us know in the comments below.