Mushroom Seeds
Seeds with a mushroom island near spawn: mycelium, mooshrooms and no hostile mob spawns.
Bedrock Mushroom Spawn-1240924097
Spawn directly on a mushroom fields island on Bedrock Edition. No hostile mobs spawn naturally on the island's surface. Mooshrooms provide unlimited mushroom stew. An ocean monument offshore offers a late-game challenge.
Mushroom FieldseasyMushroom Mainland1718842894
Spawn directly on a mushroom fields biome that connects to the mainland via a narrow strip. No hostile mobs spawn naturally in this biome, making this the safest possible survival start. Mooshrooms provide infinite food.
Mushroom FieldseasyMushroom Mega Island195316982981761
One of the largest mushroom field biomes ever documented. The island stretches over 600 blocks with dense giant mushroom forests and large mooshroom herds. The shore caves add underground exploration.
Mushroom FieldseasyMushroom Moat Castle-8294756102938
A ring-shaped mushroom island creates a natural castle with an ocean lagoon in the center. The formation looks like a medieval moat. Build your fortress on the ring with natural protection from all sides.
Mushroom FieldseasyMushroom Peninsula-1362974638
A mushroom fields peninsula connects directly to the mainland, giving you a mob-safe base with easy access to regular biome resources. Walk across the narrow neck to reach forests and plains. No boat needed.
Mushroom FieldseasyHow safe is a mushroom island?
Nothing hostile spawns in mushroom fields through the normal spawn cycle. What does spawn there on its own is a short list: red mooshrooms, glow squid and, in Java, bats. The rule reaches all the way down, so the caves and mineshafts under the island stay free of zombies, skeletons and creepers too.
It is the biome that keeps them away, not the ground. Mycelium you collect with Silk Touch and lay somewhere else protects nothing. A few things ignore the rule as well. Spawners and raids work as normal, a lush cave under the island counts as its own biome where monsters can spawn, wandering traders still show up, and in Java phantoms still come for a player who hasn't slept or died in three in-game days.
They are rare, too. Mushroom fields make up about 0.15 percent of the Overworld and form where the map is furthest from any continent, so they nearly always sit alone in deep ocean, a long way from the mainland. Ocean monuments only generate in deep ocean, which is why one is almost always close to a mushroom island. Now and then two or three of these islands form just a few hundred blocks apart.
In a random world you will almost never start on one. The game picks the world spawn with a search that steers away from ocean and from the extreme climate values these islands form in. Even Bedrock's own Mushroom Island seed template doesn't put you on the island: you start facing it across the water, and it only comes into view with a render distance above 24 chunks.
Food is the easy part. Milk a mooshroom with a bowl and you get mushroom stew, which restores 6 hunger, as often as you like. A bucket gives plain milk. Shearing one drops five mushrooms and turns it into an ordinary cow for good. Wood is the hard part. The biome grows huge mushrooms instead of trees, and the only tree you are likely to see is an azalea marking a lush cave below, so bring saplings or logs from the mainland.
Never entered a seed before? How to use Minecraft seeds covers both editions.
Questions about mushroom islands
How do I get a brown mooshroom?
Lightning turns a red mooshroom brown and a brown one red, and brown mooshrooms never spawn on their own. A storm can do it by chance, or you can throw a trident with Channeling at a red one during a thunderstorm. Breeding works too, slowly: two red parents have a 1 in 1024 chance of a brown calf, while a red and a brown parent give either color half the time.
What is a brown mooshroom good for?
Suspicious stew. Feed a brown mooshroom a small flower, milk it with a bowl, and the stew carries that flower's effect. The next bowl is plain mushroom stew again until you feed it another flower. Red mooshrooms only ever give mushroom stew.
Does mycelium stop mobs from spawning?
No. The protection belongs to the mushroom fields biome, so mycelium placed anywhere else lets mobs spawn on it like on any other block. Mycelium does spread to nearby dirt when the light above it is level 9 or higher, and it only drops as itself when mined with Silk Touch. Any other tool gives you dirt.
How do I find a mushroom island with commands?
With cheats on, type /locate biome minecraft:mushroom_fields in Java or /locate biome mushroom_island in Bedrock. Java samples the map every 32 blocks and searches about 6,400 blocks out in each direction, so a very thin strip of the biome can be missed, and an island further away than that won't be found at all.
Can I grow huge mushrooms myself?
Yes. Bone meal on a small red or brown mushroom has a 40 percent chance to grow a huge one. On most ground the light level has to be 12 or lower, but on mycelium, podzol and nylium it grows in any light. Leave at least five free blocks above it; seven gives most of them room.