Crimson Fungus

A crimson fungus is a fungus found in crimson and warped forests or by using bone meal on nylium. It can grow into a huge crimson fungus if bone mealed, but only if planted on crimson nylium. It can also be fed to hoglins.

Obtaining

Breaking

A crimson fungus can be mined instantly and always drops itself. Mining a flower pot containing a crimson fungus drops both items separately.

Block	Crimson Fungi
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.05

Legend

incorrect tool, drops nothing
correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
correct tool, drops the block itself
italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Crimson fungi naturally generate in the crimson forest and warped forest biomes, with crimson fungus most commonly generating in its respective biome, the crimson forest and less frequently in the other, the warped forest.

Mob loot

An enderman holding a crimson fungus drops the fungus upon death.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Crimson Fungus	Bastion Remnant	Hoglin stable chest	2–7	22.8% { "item": "Crimson Fungus", "stacksize": "2–7", "chance": 0.22793887963348602, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Hoglin stable chest" }

Post-generation

Applying bone meal to nylium causes crimson fungi to appear nearby, similar to flowers on grass blocks. While crimson fungi and other Nether vegetation can generate this way, they are more likely to be the same type as the nylium.

Usage

Placement

All of the blocks that crimson fungi can be placed on.

Crimson fungi may be placed on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, podzol, farmland, rooted dirt, moss blocks, nylium, mycelium, soul soil, mud and muddy mangrove roots. Attempting to place it on any other block fails. Crimson fungi requires a solid block underneath it, and pops off and drops itself if it is no longer supported.

Crimson fungi can also be placed in flower pots.

Growth

When bone meal is used on a crimson fungus that is planted on crimson nylium, it has a 40% chance to grow into a huge crimson fungus. The crimson stem, shroomlight, or Nether wart blocks may replace certain blocks including slabs and torches.

Breeding

Crimson fungus can be used to breed hoglins and keep them from despawning, but feeding hoglins does not stop them from attacking the player.

Composting

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

Sounds

Java Edition:

`fungus` sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.fungus.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.fungus.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
None	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.fungus.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
None	Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.fungus.fall`	`subtitles.block.generic.fall`	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.fungus.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.135	0.9/1.12	16

Bedrock Edition:

`fungus` sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.fungus`	?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	?	Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.fungus`	?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`dig.fungus`	?	0.25	0.5
	?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	`dig.fungus`	?	0.4	1.0
	?	Blocks	Walking on the block	`dig.fungus`	?	0.15	1.0
	?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	`dig.fungus`	?	0.12	1.0
	?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	`dig.fungus`	?	0.14	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Crimson Fungus	`crimson_fungus`	Block & Item	`enderman_holdable`	`block.minecraft.crimson_fungus`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Crimson Fungus	`crimson_fungus`	`483`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.crimson_fungus.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

History

Announcement

September 28, 2019							Crimson fungus was shown as part of crimson forest biome.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.16	20w06a	Added crimson fungi.
	20w07a	Crimson fungi can now be obtained by bartering with piglins, making them renewable. It has a ¹⁰⁄₁₀₉ (~9.17%) chance of being offered in a stack of 1–4.
	20w07a	Hoglins can now be bred with crimson fungi.
	20w09a	"Crimson Fungi" has been renamed to "Crimson Fungus".
		Crimson fungus can no longer be obtained by bartering with piglins, making it no longer renewable.
		Huge crimson fungi can now be grown only if crimson fungus is on the same type of nylium.
		Crimson fungus can now be planted in flower pots.
	March 3, 2020	Adrian Östergård states fungi are to be renewable in the future, but not through bartering.
	20w12a	Crimson fungi now generate when bone meal is used on nylium, making them renewable again.
	20w15a	Crimson fungi can now be composted.
	20w16a	Crimson fungi now generate in bastion remnant chests.
1.16.2	20w27a	Crimson fungi can now be placed on mycelium.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.16.0	beta 1.16.0.51	Added crimson fungi.
	beta 1.16.0.51	Crimson fungi have a chance to generate when applying bone meal directly to a nylium block, making them renewable.
	beta 1.16.0.57	Huge crimson fungi can now be grown only if the crimson fungus is on the same type of nylium.
		Crimson fungi now generate in bastion remnant chests.
		Crimson fungi can now be composted.
1.16.100	beta 1.16.100.54	Crimson fungi can now be placed on mycelium.

Issues

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