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Brown Mushroom
Utility Blocks

Brown Mushroom

The Brown Mushroom is a small fungus that emits a faint light and spreads in low-light conditions. It is an ingredient in mushroom stew, suspicious stew and fermented spider eyes.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

brown_mushroom

Brown Mushroom at a glance

Minecraft files Brown Mushroom under Utility Blocks: a block you get from found in dark areas, swamps, mushroom fields and the Nether and bone meal on a brown mushroom to grow a huge mushroom. A slot of Brown Mushroom holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest.

Brown Mushroom is also a hub ingredient, feeding 3 different recipes in this catalogue, so a stock in a chest unlocks that many crafts at once. It is instant to break, which is what a hardness of 0 buys you. There is no second figure for Brown Mushroom; explosions meet 0 too. It gives off light level 1 on its own. It sits between Brown Concrete Powder and Brown Stained Glass in Utility Blocks, number 68 of 340 there.

Used to craft

From Fermented Spider Eye to Suspicious Stew, 3 recipes use Brown Mushroom, and 2 of those sit in Food. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Brown Mushroom in it.

How to obtain

  • Found in dark areas, swamps, mushroom fields and the Nether
  • Bone meal on a brown mushroom to grow a huge mushroom

Notes

Can be planted and grown into a huge brown mushroom with bone meal. Used in mushroom stew and fermented spider eye.

Frequently asked questions about Brown Mushroom

  1. Brown Mushroom as it appears in the game, the item this answer is about

    How do you get Brown Mushroom in Minecraft?

    Brown Mushroom is obtained through found in dark areas, swamps, mushroom fields and the Nether, and Brown Mushroom from bone meal on a brown mushroom to grow a huge mushroom. You never craft Brown Mushroom; 3 recipes spend it.

  2. 64 Brown Mushroom drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Brown Mushroom can you stack?

    Brown Mushroom at 64 a slot, and Fermented Spider Eye takes 1 per craft, so a full slot is 64 Fermented Spider Eye with nothing left over. A double chest of Brown Mushroom comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  3. Brown Mushroom as a block, the one this breaking time belongs to

    How long does Brown Mushroom take to break?

    0 hardness is one number on Brown Mushroom, and 0 blast resistance is the other number on it. That is the default pairing for Brown Mushroom, and it means it has no special toughness either way. No tool tag applies to Brown Mushroom, and no tool is needed to collect it either. It is also a light source, worth 1 on it. Java 26.2 records Brown Mushroom with the numbers above, and it keeps them here.

  4. Brown Mushroom coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Brown Mushroom added to Minecraft?

    Brown Mushroom was added in the early Alpha development period.

  5. Brown Mushroom turning into Fermented Spider Eye and Mushroom Stew, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Brown Mushroom used for?

    Brown Mushroom is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Fermented Spider Eye, Mushroom Stew, and Suspicious Stew.

Building with it

Brown mushrooms grow in the dark, spread on their own, and give light in a small radius. With a red mushroom and a bowl they make stew, and a mushroom island lets them grow in daylight, which is why that biome is such a comfortable place to settle.