Brown Mushroom

A brown mushroom is a fungus found in the Overworld and the Nether. It can only be planted in mycelium, nylium, podzol or darkness, which also allows it to spread over time or receive bone meal to grow into a huge brown mushroom.

Brown mushrooms can be instantly mined with any tool, including by hand.

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

• the block below it is moved or destroyed
• a fluid flows over 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

Brown mushrooms naturally generate in poorly lit areas (light level of 12 or less). If this condition is met, each chunk has a ¹⁄₄ (25.0%) chance to generate brown mushrooms in the form of random patches.^[1]

Brown mushrooms also generate on the surface of a swamp under the trees, 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, brown mushrooms are commonly found in patches on the Nether roof, and alongside red mushrooms are the only blocks that can generate there.

Brown mushrooms also generate inside "mushroom farm" rooms in woodland mansions.

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

Brown mushrooms also generate as part of abandoned camps in dappled forests.​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

Breaking a brown mushroom block drops 0-2 brown mushrooms. Fortune does not affect the drop rate of mushrooms in any form.^[2]

Shearing a brown mooshroom drops 5 brown mushrooms and permanently turns it into a normal cow.

Shearing a bogged drops 2 mushrooms, both of which can be brown.

An enderman holding a brown mushroom drops it upon death.

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

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Bedrock Edition
Brown Mushroom	Bonus Chest	Chest	1–2	100% { "item": "Brown Mushroom", "stacksize": "1–2", "chance": 1, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }

Wandering traders may sell 3 brown mushrooms for 1 emerald.

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Wandering Trader	Ordinary	7%	7%	Emerald	3 × Brown Mushroom	4	—	—

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 brown mushroom, the mushroom has a chance to grow into a brown huge mushroom, 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 brown mushroom has a 4% chance of spreading to a nearby block (including even above and below diagonally) if there are fewer than five brown mushrooms in a 9×9×3 volume around the original brown mushroom.

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

Brown mushrooms can be planted in a flower pot.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Fermented Spider Eye	Brown Mushroom + Sugar + Spider Eye
Mushroom Stew	Brown Mushroom + Bowl
Mushroom Stew	Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl		​[until: Third Drop 2026]
Mushroom Stew	Brown Mushroom + Bowl		​[upcoming: JE 26.3]
Mushroom Stew	Brown Mushroom + Bowl		​[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]
Rabbit Stew	Cooked Rabbit + Carrot + Baked Potato + Brown Mushroom + Bowl		​[until: Third Drop 2026]
Rabbit Stew	Cooked Rabbit + Carrot + Baked Potato + Brown Mushroom + Bowl		​[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]
Suspicious Stew	Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl + Any Small Flower		​[until: Third Drop 2026]
Suspicious Stew	Brown Mushroom + Bowl + Any Small Flower		​[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]

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

Java Edition:

grass sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	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
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

grass sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.grass	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.7	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.grass	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.8	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.3	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Shovel flattens	Blocks	When a shovel creates a dirt path	use.grass	subtitles.item.shovel.flatten​	1.0	0.8
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.11	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.21	1.0

Java Edition:

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

Java Edition Classic
0.0.20a							Added 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 5HP.
0.25 SURVIVAL TEST							Pigs drop 0-2 brown mushrooms.
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST							Mushrooms now spawn only underground.
0.28							Sheep drop 0-2 brown mushrooms.
Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091223-0040				Mushrooms now have a stretched model with wider texture planes.
			20091231-1856				Mushrooms can no longer be eaten.
			20100130				Mushrooms are now used to craft mushroom stew.
			20100131-2156				Brown mushrooms now emit light.
20100219							Sheep no longer drop brown mushrooms.
							Pigs no loner drop brown mushrooms.
?							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
20100227-1414							Mushrooms no longer generate naturally.
20100616-1808							Mushrooms can now naturally generate again.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0			preview				With the addition of biomes and the Nether, mushrooms have become more common.
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, crafting tables, 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 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.
							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.
							This also applies to when in pots.
			14w27a				Mushrooms are now used to craft rabbit stew.
1.11			16w39a				Mushrooms now generate in woodland mansions.
1.13			17w47a				The name of brown mushrooms has been changed from "Mushroom" to "Brown Mushroom".
1.14			18w43a				The textures of mushrooms have been changed.
							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.
							Added wandering traders, which sell brown mushrooms.
1.16			20w07a				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.
			20w09a				Brown mushrooms can no longer be obtained through bartering with piglins.
1.16.2			20w27a				Mushrooms can now be placed and grown on nylium at any light level.
1.17			21w11a				Changed lighting.
1.18			21w39a				Mushrooms no longer generate underground.[9]
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			24w09a				Mushrooms can now be obtained by shearing bogged.
1.21.2			24w33a				Mushrooms are no longer subject to shading when in flower pots.
1.21.5			25w09a				Added fallen trees to match Bedrock Edition, which have a chance to generate with brown mushrooms.
Upcoming Java Edition
26.3			snap1				Brown mushrooms now generate as part of abandoned camps in dappled forests.

Pocket Edition Alpha
Demo							[verify] Added mushrooms. They could generate or be placed in any light level.
v0.4.0							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.
v0.12.1			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.
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.
							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 name of brown mushrooms has been changed from "Mushroom" to "Brown Mushroom".
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.54				Mushrooms can now be placed on nylium.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Mushrooms no longer appear mirrored when viewed from certain angles.[10]
			Preview 1.21.60.23				Mushrooms generate in larger patches in mushroom fields.
1.21.100			Preview 1.21.100.20				Mushrooms now properly generate under trees in swamps and other biomes.
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026			Preview 26.40.27				Brown mushrooms now generate as part of abandoned camps in dappled forests.
26.40			Preview 26.40.30				Brown mushrooms can no longer be placed under the sky when it is dark.
							They now generate on crimson nylium and warped nylium no matter the brightness.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
26.50			Preview 26.50.22				All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	[verify] Added brown mushrooms.
TU7							Brown mushrooms are now used to craft fermented spider eyes.
TU14		1.04					Mushrooms can now be added to flower pots.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Added podzol, which allows mushrooms to grow on it regardless of the light level.
							Mushrooms are now used to craft rabbit stew.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Mushrooms now generate in woodland mansions.
			1.90				The textures of mushrooms have been changed.
			1.91				Added wandering traders, which sell brown mushrooms.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							[verify] Added mushrooms.

Java Edition
1.8			14w06a				Brown mushrooms now use the newly-implemented model json file models/block/cross.json; previously the geometry was defined in the game code itself.
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 39.
1.17			21w19a				minecraft:brown_mushroom has been added to the newly-implemented #minecraft:mineable/axe block tag. This, however, has no effect in-game, since the block breaks instantly anyway regardless of tool used or active effects.[check the code]
1.21.5			25w10a				minecraft:brown_mushroom has been removed from the block tags #minecraft:mineable/axe and #minecraft:sword_efficient.

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

• The brown mushroom is based on the edible Boletus edulis (penny bun).^[11]

• 
  Mushrooms found in a swamp biome
• 
  A brown mushroom growing on a tree
• 
  Mushrooms growing in the Nether
• 
  An example of a mushroom fields biome
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  Mushrooms growing on podzol
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  Mushrooms growing on mycelium in a mushroom fields biome
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  Brown mushrooms illuminating a red mushroom and surrounding blocks
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  A large amount of mushrooms generated on a beach

• Red Mushroom
• Shelf Mushroom

• Taking Inventory: Mushroom – Minecraft.net on December 21, 2018