Mooshrooms & Mushroom Islands are OP in Minecraft

Mushroom cows mushrooms and the mushroom islands in minecraft seem to be a somewhat useless part of the game but this couldn’t be further from the truth and i’ll show you why right now so the first question is how do you find the rare mushroom island biome well they

Generate in any variant of deep ocean so let’s say you’re right off the coast of something and it has a very shallow ocean biome just the standard ocean like let’s say lukewarm ocean ocean or cold ocean then the mooshroom island could not spawn only if it’s in a deep ocean

Variant but something interesting i found that also breaks this trend is the warm ocean now the warm ocean does not have a deep variant although like you can see right here it is very common that it’ll generate very deep down still so this mushroom island here seems to

Have generated in the warm ocean and yet surrounding this mushroom island and this mushroom island we have a different color of water well something very interesting about this is that this color of water is not a different type of ocean or really not a biome at all

Because on our f3 menu you can see this is still the mushroom fields biome because mushroom fields only generate as an island they’ll always be some water around them that’s still part of that mushroom fields but if you look at this this did generate inside of the warm

Ocean and so that’s how you find this biome another reason why mushroom islands are actually popular and not just a random biome that most players wouldn’t really care about is because of a very unique ability of this biome and that ability is that the mushroom island mushroom island or mushroom fields

Whatever you want to call it is in all practicality a peaceful mode biome it can be in the middle of the night and there are absolutely no hostile mobs that spawn on this island it’s sort of like a respite from all the hostiles basically every block in this island and

Every block in this biome so even caves let’s say if we explored down in a cave here there would be absolutely no mobs that generate in there that are hostile in fact the only two mobs that are even able to generate in the mushroom island are the mushrooms as well as bats deep

In the caves of course you could let’s say get a lush cave underneath here and then you would maybe get some creepers or skeletons or something else but generally that doesn’t happen and usually you will have just the mushroom fields in a plane cave and biomes like

The deep dark are not actually able to generate underneath the mushroom island now of course being a peaceful mode biome is incredibly overpowered but something that makes this biome really good for building as well is the fact the color of grass in this biome is basically the same green as the jungle

Biome a color that’s of course very sought after that’s why some players have even flattened entire jungles just that they can have the grass and let’s say their city or amusement park or whatever else they’re building to be this brilliant green but in the mushroom island you don’t really have to do that

And you have right from the get-go this amazing green color and speaking of colors the watercolor is also quite good on here now it’s of course not some sort of neon color but it’s generally your standard water hue however if you’re on bedrock edition the water here is

Actually gray which is sort of odd i’m not sure if that has something to do with maybe the mycelium being in the water as the idea behind why the water would be gray but it does certainly make for this biome to have some interesting building patterns in it with that green

Grass and yet gray water and in general the generation of this island is very simple we simply have mycelium on the ground and somewhat rugged terrain but really not too much different from let’s say a plane’s biome it is sort of a forest in the fact that

We have the tall red mushrooms and brown mushrooms around here but they’re not very dense caves can generate here normally and i’ve found there’s often very large openings to caves around this biome and the only other part of natural generation here is random brown mushrooms on the ground there are not

Red mushrooms on the ground here only the brown ones and of course the mushroom cow now one thing that is unfortunately very annoying about the mushroom island is that as of 1.18 you are not able to have your world spawn beyond the mushroom island now that you

Technically can set your spawn point to the mushroom island let’s say for the entire world spawn by moving where that is without cheating there is unfortunately no way of having the world spawn be on the mushroom island in fact if let’s say zero zero of the world is a

Mushroom island the spawn point will actually be put somewhere else now you might be wondering why as of course in 1.17 before generating on this biome was not very difficult well the reason why is somewhat simple mojing decided in 1.18 the players should only spawn in biomes where they could have all the

Materials to survive off the get-go so let’s say things like trees but something i find funny about that is the fact that it is definitely still possible to generate in the desert biome at the spawn point and have your world spawn be right in the middle of the

Desert which in my opinion the desert is much more deadly than let’s say the mushroom island but either way that’s why you can’t generate there now of course you can always set your spawn point there with beds but even though you cannot have your world spawn be there the mushroom island is still

Incredibly popular to build at as you can for instance see right here on my minecraft server which you can join by joining my discord server by the way if you’re interested a lot of players have taken this mushroom island taken almost all the mycelium off of it and

Transformed it into an area that is green and grassy and really does have that jungle like grass color even working on this massive mountain in here to make it look a lot less like an alien and sort of strange mushroom island and a lot more like an amazing civilized

Area and something sort of interesting about the mushroom island as well is that it is the only overworld biome that does not also occur in real life now of course yes there are let’s say things like the shattered savannah that you wouldn’t really have in real life but

The actual biome of the savannah is something in real life in fact until the addition of the lush caves in 1.18 and the deep dark in 1.19 it was the only biome in the entire overworld there was not also in real life and mooshroom islands can be from big to small so for

Instance here you can see this mooshroom island was incredibly large and they’ve only begun to transform part of it and also the mycelium on map shows up as purple and the generation of the mushroom islands was changed somewhat between 1.17 and 1.18 they are incredibly more common in 1.18 and also

Generally tend to be much larger in 1.18 and so if you’re finding many more mushroom islands now and also larger ones now that would be why as their general generation mechanics have changed a lot and almost always generate very far away from mainland as well and

Of course we can’t forget about the best part of the mushroom fields which is the mushroom so for starters mushrooms always generate as red mushrooms however there is a brown variety i will get into later now mushrooms have more or less the exact same sounds and exact same ai

As cows although they’re not just a retextured cow but you will notice they are bred with wheat like a cow is and that will give you a baby mooshroom baby mushrooms just like cows can have their growth sped up by right clicking on them with wheat and that’ll take off ten

Percent of the remaining growth time per wheat right clicked on it and the mushroom cows will also follow you around when you’re holding wheat now something that is interesting is if you breed two red mushrooms there is a one in one thousand chance to get a brown mushroom as the

Baby which of course would other than the blue axolotl make the brown mooshroom more or less the rarest mob in the entire game however you can actually get the brown mushrooms another way so if you get yourself a channeling trident and you throw it at a mooshroom during a thunderstorm lightning will summon

Hitting that cow and turning it brown but it’s not just that it converts it from red to brown in fact lightning just converts the cow to whatever it is not right now let’s say we turn it right now it’ll go from brown to red although unfortunately it killed the cow right

Then you do want to be careful with the damage given to these mobs let’s say right here this baby cow here as it was not damaged by the lightning you’ll notice if it’s hit again it does turn into a red cow again and you only need

To have one night of mushroom torture as once you have a brown mushroom you can breed that with a red mooshroom for a 50 50 chance of either a brown mushroom baby or a red mushroom baby then two brown mushrooms would always give you a brown mushroom baby just like two red

Would always give you a red one as a baby except for that very small chance you can milk brown mushrooms or red mushrooms for milk with a bucket which is quite useful and just like with the cow you can spam right click on there to get infinite milk with no cool down but

Here is where the mushrooms become incredibly overpowered with just one mushroom you have infinite food that’s right if you take a bowl and right click on the mushroom it’ll fill up into a mushroom stew the mushroom stews are not the best food and of course they only

Take one brown mushroom and one red mushroom to make but if you consider the fact that you can get absolutely unlimited mushrooms due from the mushroom cows and even once you drink that mushroom stew you can reuse the bowls to get even more if let’s say you

Bring a single mushroom of either the brown or red variety back to your base and put it in a boat maybe near somewhere that you always are you could have yourself infinite food that’s actually a fairly good type mushroom stew is not the best food source what’s also interesting and this is another

Thing that makes the brown mushrooms different is a special ability of the brown mushrooms with the bowl well if we right-click on a standard mushroom with a flower nothing happens but if we go up to a brown mushroom with a flower and we right click on it it’ll actually eat

That flour then if we take a bowl and we milk that mushroom after it’s eaten the flour the first thing that we milk out of it is a suspicious stew the second thing is just a standard mushroom stew that first suspicious stew will be the corresponding stew from the flour that

You gave it so if we drink that you can notice we just got regeneration because we use the oxide daisy let’s say we give it a dandelion and then we milk it we will get a stew of saturation which is an incredibly good food source in fact

Technically the best food source in the entire game although of course it’s not stackable you could kind of make it stackable by having a brown mushroom around your base and having a big chest full of the dandelions and bowls and of course these suspicious stews are basically the only good way of getting

Potion effects early game and even late game they’re a great way of getting them as there’s even some things like let’s say the saturation or even blindness that are only possible through the suspicious stew and so next time you have a lightning storm make sure to turn your red mushrooms into brown mushrooms

Or really just have a good mix of both as that brown mushroom’s special ability is incredibly overpowered but there’s one interesting thing you can do to mushrooms and that is sheer them but it in a sense kills the mushroom if we right click on this mushroom you can

Notice it converted into a cow and it dropped five red mushrooms if we try and sure the brown mushroom i’m sure you can guess what happens it will drop five brown mushrooms and we will have a cow appear there as well i do find the sound

And animation of this to be quite cool right clicking on the cow then sort of an explosion and it turns into the standard cow from the mushroom now generally this would seem like a waste but it actually isn’t and it has to do with the fact of the mushroom cows drops

They’re exactly the same as the cows they will only ever drop steaks and leather they’ll actually never drop mushrooms which is quite interesting and so let’s say we have a massive amount of the mushroom cows that we’re butchering maybe we make a massive field of the mushroom cows well after killing all of

Them you’ll notice we still only have raw beef and leather all these mushrooms are from shearing them and so ideally if you’re making a mushroom farm what you want to do is you want to get a whole bunch of mushrooms bred with each other and then before you butcher them you

Want to shear any of the ones you’re going to butcher then you can kill them as you’ll get the exact same drops from that standard cow as you would from the mushroom but you have the addition of those red mushrooms or brown mushrooms saving a step of having to build a

Mushroom farm in fact there is really no way why after you’ve found a mushroom cow you shouldn’t have all your farms be with mushroom cows instead of standard cows as they just have more abilities with the mushroom stew and the mushroom drops and even the suspicious stew now

Enough about the mushroom cows onto the mushrooms themselves personally the mechanics around mushrooms are some of my very favorite in the game and the reason why is that a lot of them are completely unique and have no other features similar to other items in the game so the first one for instance is

The fact that you have to plant mushrooms in dark areas now granted it is at the right light level you can plant these on any solid block that’s right you do not have to plant mushrooms just on let’s say dirt grass mycelium podzol or things like that for instance

Here we’re planting mushrooms right on top of these random blocks and the mushrooms can even spread from these blocks in the right conditions what are the conditions for mushrooms to grow well if mushrooms are at the right light level which these ones are of course you

Cannot plant them down in fact you can tell where the light level changes because if i right click let’s say here i can plant a mushroom but right here i cannot right here i can right here i can but right here i cannot if there are

Less than five mushrooms in a nine by nine by three radius so that would be nine blocks wide nine blocks long and three blocks tall and if there’s less than five in that radius and that mushroom can grow if the random tech lands on it and of course that does make

For very slow growth but let’s save a massive cave and you very sparingly put a mushroom here or there within the cave then eventually from that you can get yourself a very large amount of mushrooms so it is sort of a strange thing to build a mushroom farm with a

Very slow spreading technique but you could do it if you want to make a very authentic mushroom farm in minecraft and certainly a very unique way of growing an item in the game and something you probably just noticed right here is that mushrooms have a light level of one

That’s right mushrooms are technically a light source and so if you’re ever going through a cave and you happen upon some mushrooms very rarely you’ll notice those do have that light level but if you’ll notice here too when i’m planting these red mushrooms it is only the brown

Mushrooms that cause this light the red mushrooms do not so only those brown mushrooms will give you that light level of one now something you may have noticed is that we cannot let’s say plant this mushroom on this dirt block right here if it’s just right in the

Middle of the sunlight we can plant it on top of this mycelium so what blocks can you plant mushrooms on when we already talked about the fact that they can be planted on any single block if the light level is 12 or lower however there’s only four blocks that you can

Plant mushrooms on at any light level they’re warped and crimson nilium as well as mycelium and podzol now of course podsole because these generate rather frequently and beautifully in the mega taiga and of course the mycelium because it’s literally mushroom roots and the nylon because these mushrooms

Tend to generate a lot in the nether and also nilium is sort of like the nether mycelium in fact i believe that’s where the name of nylium came from is a mixture of nether and mycelium and there’s some other blocks you can plant mushrooms on too that are a bit

Different than others so they can be planted on dirt coarse dirt rooted dirt and grass blocks if it’s dark enough like it is right here there’s a reason why that’s different from let’s say those diamond blocks if you boom the mushroom when it’s on any of these dirt

Type blocks the grass block the nileum the podzol or the mycelium and that can be bone milled into a giant mushroom now of course it has to have the right room like let’s say this mushroom here will grow but this one will likely not unless it can generate tall enough like that

One did but this one here with blocks above it will just bone mill it and it probably will not grow and the same with these ones underneath here so let’s say you want to grow a giant mushroom on one of the dirt or grass blocks what you

Have to do is you have to make a massive platform in the sky to cause enough darkness so these can be brightened up as the light level in the sky is actually always 15 technically although that is not your visible light level that is more or less the distance from

Open sky that there is and so just be aware not to bone meal mushrooms when they’re on invalid blocks so what do the mushroom blocks do well the mushroom blocks if you break them will have a small chance of giving you red mushrooms you just saw i got a couple right there

So in a nutshell that’s how you grow mushrooms but what’s also interesting is that these blocks can be obtained as is they’re broken the fastest with an axe so of course a fortune axe you’d assume would be the best block to break these with if you want mushrooms but that’s

Actually not true as fortune interestingly enough does not apply to the mushrooms so there’s no point of breaking your mushroom blocks with fortune and you’ll notice too when we break these they act a little bit differently than they would as they generate and these are actually really

Great decorative blocks a lot of people don’t use them so basically how they work as you place them down and any side that’s touched a different block will then turn into this strange sort of plain mushroom texture and so you can mold which sides have a texture on them

And which of them don’t this is definitely a very unique mechanic that’s cool because it kind of lets you have a maybe sort of wallpaper look on one side and more of a bright and vibrant almost candy red look on the other side breaking the mushroom stems will never

Give you mushrooms so there’s no reason to do anything but break that mushroom stem with your silk touch axe and you can get those blocks if you break with anything with sulk touch on it does not have to be an axe but more or less that’s how mushrooms and giant mushrooms

Work and giant mushrooms can of course also generate in the dark forest and in the swamp biome if you’re in bedrock edition now enough about the mushrooms what about mycelium well mycelium is a unique and incredibly interesting item that only generates in the mushroom islands although you can plant it

Elsewhere and it’ll slowly spread onto nearby dirt mycelium is unique to this if you look closely at mycelium and you have your particles on full there are small little gray dots that’ll come off of it and those particles are meant to represent the fact that this is a spore

Mycelium is sort of like a mushroom root in real life and so you can see here these are supposed to be the spores of the mushroom coming off of it and the side of the texture definitely does look something like roots also sort of spooky and i’ve seen people use it in halloween

Builds a lot because of that now it acts very similarly to grass and because it’s like grass you can only pick it up with silk touch unfortunately if you try and break it with your hand it will only drop dirt and in a mushroom island if

You break my clam as dirt and place it back it will definitely convert back to mycelium very quickly as mycelium grows basically as quickly as grass does in fact it’s almost the exact same and a strange fact about mycelium is that if there is snow on top of it it looks the

Exact same as grass when it has snow on top of it and so let’s say you have a snowy area and you want to have mycelium on it you could always put snow layers on top of there to give it the exact same visual as if it was grass in fact

Without going to your f3 menu there is no way of knowing that it’s not grass anyway i hope you enjoyed this video about mushrooms and mushrooms and minecraft if you did make sure to press the like button feel free to comment down below if you think mushrooms are

Opa in minecraft i definitely think they are and the mushroom island in general is one of my favorites anyway i’ll see you in the next one and hopefully you’ll have much room to build mushroom builds in the mushroom islands You