Mushrooms are one of many farmable resources inMinecraft, primarily acting as a crafting ingredient for different kinds of stews. Mushrooms are also used to create fermented spider eyes, which are an important resourcefor potion brewing, and used to make potions of weakness. These can be used to cure zombie villagers, making mushrooms an incredibly useful item to have lots of.
While players can simply venture out and collect mushrooms that grow naturally, this is incredibly time-consuming and it will only become harder to find mushrooms as time goes on. This means that players should be farming mushrooms instead, and there are three main ways to do it. Which method players use primarily should depend on the resources available to them.
How To Farm Mushrooms In Minecraft
Standard Mushroom Farming
The classic way of farming mushrooms involves their spreading mechanic. When mushrooms are planted, they will attempt to spread to other adjacent blocks, provided the light levels allow for it. It must bebelowlight level 13 for a mushroom to be able to grow to that spot. For context, torches emit light level 14, and the light dims by one level for every block away from the torch. Sunlight is light level 15.
Players should carefully set up their lighting, such that it is sufficiently dark for mushrooms to grow (12 or below), but bright enough that hostile mobs won’t spawn (8 or above). However, if players have either mycelium, nylium, or podzol, mushroomscanbe planted on these at any light level, as well as grow to them at any light level. This allows players to create farms above ground and prevents mob spawning from being an issue. Similarly, if builtin a deep dark cave, hostile mobs can not spawn, so players need not worry about lighting.
Mushroom growth is incredibly slow, and the game imposes a maximum number of mushrooms that can spawn in a given area. Either type of mushroom can only spread if there are five or less of that mushroom in a 9x9x3 area around it. After that, they will stop growing and should thus be harvested. The fifth and final mushroom will grow fastest, as there are four mushrooms trying to spread.
Using all of these mechanics, players can create very simple automatic farms using observers. By leaving just one available block for mushrooms to spread to, observers can monitor this block and cause a piston to break the mushroom immediately as it spawns. It will still produce at a slow rate, so players who need lots of mushrooms fast may want to opt for another method or create multiple farms that use this method.
Huge Mushroom Farming
This method is the fastest of the three and by far the best option for players who just want some quick mushrooms. Mushrooms work similarly to saplings, in that when the bone meal is applied to them, they can grow up into large mushrooms the size of trees. The key difference is that this willonlyhappen if bone meal is used. Small mushrooms will not grow into large ones naturally over time.
Players must place a mushroom in the center of an open 7x7x8 area (at minimum) to allow room to grow. Huge mushrooms will only grow at light levels 12 or below when the small mushroom is placed on a dirt or grass block of any kind. These light restrictions do not apply if the block used is mycelium, nylium, or podzol.
Once the bone meal is applied and the mushroom grows, the newly formed mushroom blocks can be harvested, dropping between zero and two mushrooms each. Provided players have sufficient bone meal, they can continue to use these mushrooms to exponentially increase their stock. If anXP farm is built, players should have an unending stash of bones to use.
Mooshroom Farming
Mooshrooms could very well be the most useful mob in the game, though they are quite rare. Players will have to seek out mushroom biomes to find them. If players are able to wrangle up a few, they can be used to produce an infinite supply of mushrooms. Now, if players just want mushrooms for a mushroom stew, then they’re better off just milking these cows. Simply interacting with them with an empty bowl will fill the bowl with stew, making for an easy infinite food source.
If players actually want the mushrooms themselves, they’ll have to shear the mooshrooms. Doing so will turn them into regular cows, which can then be slaughtered for steak and leather. Players should breed mooshrooms with wheat until they have at least a few dozen in a pen. Next, players should breed them all one more time, wait for them to grow up, then shear athirdof the cows they now have.
Those cows will then turn into normal cows and can be killed. By repeating the process of breeding, then shearing a third of the cows, players will have an unending supply of mushrooms. If they want to increase their production, they can simply breed more mooshrooms.
