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Mushroom Stew
FoodCraftable

Mushroom Stew

A stew crafted from a red mushroom, a brown mushroom, and a bowl. It restores 6 hunger points.

Stack Size

1

Durability

N/A

Category

Food

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

mushroom_stew

Mushroom Stew at a glance

Food holds Mushroom Stew: a food item out of crafting and milking a mooshroom with a bowl. One slot, one Mushroom Stew: nothing stacks here, and nine of them fill a hotbar. 27 chest slots take 27 of them. Hunger goes up 6 and saturation 7.2 when you eat Mushroom Stew, so 3 drumsticks a time.

6 hunger back per Mushroom Stew keeps natural regeneration running, and the 7.2 saturation behind it is what buys you the time until the next meal, rather longer than the hunger number on its own suggests. It sits between Honey Bottle and Potato in Food, number 21 of 37 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Red MushroomRed Mushroom
Brown MushroomBrown Mushroom
BowlBowl
Mushroom StewMushroom Stew

How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Milking a mooshroom with a bowl

Food value

Hunger Restored

6 (3 drumsticks)

Saturation

7.2

Time to Eat

1.6 seconds

Eat On A Full Bar

No

Eating

4 helpings clear an empty hunger bar, at 1.6 seconds each, which is 6.4 seconds before Mushroom Stew has done the job. Every hunger point Mushroom Stew gives back carries 1.2 saturation with it, which is what decides how long you stay full. On saturation Mushroom Stew lands at 11 of 37, just under Cooked Chicken and just over Suspicious Stew.

Notes

Cannot be stacked. Shapeless recipe. Also obtained by using a bowl on a mooshroom. The empty bowl is returned after eating.

Frequently asked questions about Mushroom Stew

  1. Red Mushroom, Brown Mushroom, Bowl going into Mushroom Stew, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Mushroom Stew in Minecraft?

    Mushroom Stew is crafted from Red Mushroom, Brown Mushroom, and Bowl at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from milking a mooshroom with a bowl, not just the recipe above.

  2. Mushroom Stew beside the 6 hunger points one helping restores

    How long does it take to eat Mushroom Stew?

    1.6 seconds for one Mushroom Stew, 4 Mushroom Stew for an empty bar, 6.4 seconds for the two multiplied out. What that time buys is 1.2 saturation for every hunger point, which is where Mushroom Stew sits against the rest.

  3. Mushroom Stew on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Mushroom Stew used for?

    Mushroom Stew is eaten to restore 6 hunger and 7.2 saturation, helping you keep your hunger bar full and regenerate health.

  4. One Mushroom Stew, the whole of what a single inventory slot holds

    How many Mushroom Stew can you stack?

    One Mushroom Stew per slot, since Mushroom Stew does not stack, and every one then costs 1 Red Mushroom, 1 Brown Mushroom, and 1 Bowl. A double chest holds 54 Mushroom Stew, one to a slot.

  5. Mushroom Stew coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Mushroom Stew added to Minecraft?

    Mushroom Stew was added in the early Alpha development period.

Building with it

One red mushroom, one brown mushroom and a bowl give six hunger of stew. Mushrooms grow in the dark without any farmland at all, which makes stew the food of choice for players living underground with no space for wheat.