How To Make A Mushroom Farm In Minecraft

Farming mushrooms in Minecraft is a process that players may not be familiar with. Mushrooms are fairly useful for food production, as the recipes made with them often give a fair amount of health restoration. Players can get a more stable supply of these mushrooms if they are able to make a farm for them.

Mushrooms are just one of many crops to farm in Minecraft. The more crops players can farm, the better off they will be and the more time they can spend worrying less about hunting for food. Without worrying about food, players can focus more on the adventure and worry more about finding Ender Pearls.

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How To Build A Mushroom Farm

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There are three main ways to build a mushroom farm in Minecraft, with various levels of automated farming possible depending on which type you choose. Each version presents various perks that might determine which type is best for you.

Small Mushroom Farming

The first type of mushroom farm you will likely build is one with regular small mushrooms. However, there are some special considerations you will need to take into account as mushrooms cannot grow in daylight. You can avoid this by planting on specific types of ground, but this might be hard to achieve at the beginning of the game.

The special types of ground that do not require low lighting are Podzol (Old Growth Taiga, Bamboo Jungles), Mycelium (Mushroom Fields), and Nylium (Nether). All of these can only be mined with a tool using Silk Touch, an enchantment in Minecraft. Otherwise, you will only mine dirt.

The simplest and easiest farm to make is underground. Make a room that is two blocks high and about 9x9 or larger. Mushrooms will only spread a certain number of times in that size of space. Plant a small mushroom in the center of the room, of which there are two main types: red or Brown.

At regular 6-space intervals, dig out a space in the ceiling and put a torch in the newly created recess to avoid mob spawning. This will keep the lighting low enough to let the mushrooms grow but bright enough to keep enemy mobs from spawning. In a 9x9 space, a single type of mushroom will only spread enough to have five mushrooms fill that space.

To automate this process, you can create a piston system that will once a day use water to flush the mushrooms out and into hoppers and then a chest. JC Playz's video on YouTube shows how to build this type of system. There are various versions of this build, but the basic idea is to have a way to wash the mushrooms down once a day automatically by using a Redstone repeater.

Huge Mushroom Farming

If you have the space and supplies, this will be a better way to get a lot of mushrooms at once. It will also be easier if you manage to get your hands on Podzol, Nylium, or Mycelium, but it is still possible to do this underground or by placing a floating platform of blocks to block the sunlight as well.

To do this, find a 7x7x8 area to allow the mushroom space to grow, and it must have a light level of 12 or lower without the special block types. Place down the small mushroom and then immediately apply bonemeal to it. Bonemeal in Minecraft can be found in various places, but it can be made from Bone or taken from a Composter.

After the Huge Mushroom grows, you should receive 0-2 mushrooms per mushroom block on the tree. You can then rinse and repeat as long as you have more bonemeal, using this to get mushrooms forever, or at least as long as you need them.

Mooshroom Farming

This is the hardest type of farm to create but perhaps the hardest to find. You will have to find a Mushroom biome in Minecraft, which will help you find Mycelium, but if you manage to wrangle some of the Mooshrum mobs and put them in a fence, you will be able to infinitely breed as many mushrooms as you need.

Now, if you just want a Mushroom Stew or a Suspicious Stew, you can simply milk the mushrooms with a bowl and have as much as you like. However, if you want the mushrooms for other purposes, you can farm them by breeding a herd of Mooshrooms, shearing, and killing about a third of them, as they turn into normal cows after that, and repeating the process.

Only Brown Mooshrooms will produce Suspicious Stew and only after they have been fed a small flower. You must continue to feed them the small flower to milk the stew.

How To Use Mushrooms

Mushroom Farms Remove Hunger Forever

Most of what you can do with Mushrooms is make delicious stews, one of which restores more hunger than any other food in Minecraft. However, they can also become a crucial ingredient for potions, which might be why you have mushrooms to hand if you need them. There are three main types of stew you can create with Mushrooms:

Stew Ingredients Notes Mushroom Stew Red Mushroom Brown Mushroom Bowl Mooshrooms can be milked for this. Rabbit Stew Cooked Rabbit Carrot Baked Potato Any Mushroom Bowl Restores more health than any other food recipe in the game. Suspicious Stew Red Mushroom Brown Mushroom Bowl Any Flower Mooshrooms can be milked for this.

Additionally, Mushrooms can be used to make a Fermented Spider Eye, for which you only need a Brown Mushroom, Sugar, and a Spider Eye. This can be used as an ingredient in the following list of potions, most of which are most useful for combat against enemies:

Potion of Weakness

Potion of Harming

Potion of Slowness

Potion of Invisibility

That is all you need to know about farming mushrooms in Minecraft. As usual, players are free to make the process as automated and massive as they wish, only limited by their imagination and the scope of their PC in Minecraft.

Video Credit: JC Playz/YouTube