To grow the familiar red and brown mushrooms in Minecraft, collect a small mushroom, place it on podzol, mycelium, or nylium, and let it spread—or use bone meal to try to grow a huge mushroom. On ordinary dirt or grass, keep the light level at 12 or lower. A huge mushroom can produce many small mushrooms, making it the faster way to build up a supply.
Water and humidity are not mushroom mechanics in Minecraft; the substrate and light level matter.
Look in Mushroom Fields, underground caves, and the Nether. The official Minecraft guide also recommends these locations. Break a small mushroom to collect it, then bring it to your farm site. A single mushroom is enough to start, but keeping one red and one brown makes it easier to grow both colors.
Use podzol, mycelium, or nylium for a lit farm. On dirt or grass, use a roofed area with light level 12 or lower; brighter conditions can prevent placement or make mushrooms pop off after a block update. A dark, damp cave is not required.
Leave open patches for each color and enough overhead room for a future huge mushroom.
Place each mushroom directly on a suitable block. It will not grow taller by itself, but it can spread slowly to nearby valid spots. Spread stops locally when five mushrooms of the same color are within a 9-by-9-by-3 area, so leave open planting spots instead of crowding the patch.
Keep a few starters and harvest only part of the patch. A mushroom does not regrow in the same spot after breaking, so save or replant one.
For a larger harvest, plant on podzol, mycelium, or nylium, or use another valid block with light at 12 or lower. Leave a 7-by-7 footprint and 8 blocks of vertical clearance. Apply bone meal; each use has a chance, not a guarantee, to grow a huge mushroom of the same color.
Break the cap blocks to collect small mushrooms, then replant a few and repeat. Minecraft’s official guide describes podzol and bone meal as a way to build a larger supply.
Craft mushroom stew with one red mushroom, one brown mushroom, and a bowl; eating it returns the bowl. Raw mushrooms are not cooked in a furnace or brewed with water into a regeneration potion. A brown mushroom combines with sugar and a spider eye to make a fermented spider eye, used in recipes such as Potion of Weakness.
Java Edition 26.3 and Bedrock Edition 26.50 also add a separate Shelf Mushroom, which bone meal can grow from small to large. It is different from the red and brown mushrooms covered here.
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