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Red Mushroom
Utility Blocks

Red Mushroom

The Red Mushroom is a small fungus that spreads in low-light conditions and can be grown into a huge red mushroom. It is used in mushroom stew and suspicious stew.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

red_mushroom

Red Mushroom at a glance

Found in dark areas, swamps, mushroom fields and the Nether and bone meal on a red mushroom to grow a huge mushroom give you Red Mushroom, a block filed under Utility Blocks. A single slot takes 64 Red Mushroom, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Red Mushroom additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Mushroom Stew and Suspicious Stew. There is no waiting on Red Mushroom: its hardness is 0, so it pops the moment you start. It sits between Red Concrete Powder and Red Sand in Utility Blocks, number 267 of 340 there.

Used to craft

Follow Red Mushroom forward and you land on 2 recipes: 2 in Food, the rest spread over that one category, Mushroom Stew through Suspicious Stew. Each link below opens that recipe with Red Mushroom in the grid.

How to obtain

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

Mobs that drop it

Zombie drops 0 to 1 of them. Looting III turns Zombie into 4 Red Mushroom instead of 1, 1 per level.

Notes

Can be planted and grown into a huge red mushroom with bone meal. Combined with a brown mushroom and a bowl to make mushroom stew.

Frequently asked questions about Red Mushroom

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

    How do you get Red Mushroom in Minecraft?

    Red Mushroom is obtained through found in dark areas, swamps, mushroom fields and the Nether, and Red Mushroom from bone meal on a red mushroom to grow a huge mushroom. There is no recipe for Red Mushroom, but 2 recipes ask for it.

  2. Red Mushroom coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Red Mushroom added to Minecraft?

    Red Mushroom was added in the early Alpha development period.

  3. Several Red Mushroom at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Red Mushroom?

    Zombie drops 0 to 1 of them. Looting III turns Zombie into 4 Red Mushroom instead of 1, 1 per level.

  4. Red Mushroom turning into Mushroom Stew and Suspicious Stew, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Red Mushroom used for?

    Red Mushroom is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Mushroom Stew and Suspicious Stew.

  5. 64 Red Mushroom drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Red Mushroom can you stack?

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

Building with it

Red mushrooms need low light to survive on most blocks, but podzol, mycelium and nylium let them stay in daylight. They pair with brown mushrooms for stew, and bone meal on one planted on dirt grows a huge mushroom that drops dozens more.