Crimson Fungus

This article is about the red fungi found in the Nether. For the other type of mushrooms, see Mushroom. For the structure, see Huge Crimson Fungus. For the fungus used for potions, see Nether Wart. For the fungus-like block family, see Sculk family.

Crimson Fungus

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	35 NETHER
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A crimson fungus is a fungus found in crimson and warped forests or by using bone meal on nylium. It can grow into a huge crimson fungus if bone mealed, but only if planted on crimson nylium. It can also be used to breed hoglins.

Obtaining

Breaking

A crimson fungus can be mined instantly and always drops itself. Mining a flower pot containing a crimson fungus drops both items separately.

Block	Crimson Fungi
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)

Legend

incorrect tool, drops nothing
correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
correct tool, drops the block itself
italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Crimson fungi naturally generate in the crimson forest and warped forest biomes, with crimson fungus most commonly generating in its respective biome, the crimson forest and less frequently in the other, the warped forest.

Mob loot

An enderman holding a crimson fungus drops the fungus upon death.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Crimson Fungus	Bastion Remnant	Hoglin stable chest	2–7	22.8% { "item": "Crimson Fungus", "stacksize": "2–7", "chance": 0.22793887963348602, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Hoglin stable chest" }

Post-generation

Applying bone meal to nylium causes crimson fungi to appear nearby, similar to flowers on grass blocks. While crimson fungi and other Nether vegetation can generate this way, they are more likely to be the same type as the nylium.

Usage

Placement

All of the blocks that crimson fungi can be placed on

Crimson fungi may be placed on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, podzol, farmland, rooted dirt, moss blocks, nylium, mycelium, soul soil, mud, and muddy mangrove roots. Attempting to place it on any other block fails. Crimson fungi requires a solid block underneath it, and pops off and drops itself if it is no longer supported.

Crimson fungi can also be placed in flower pots.

Growth

When bone meal is used on a crimson fungus that is planted on crimson nylium, it has a 40% chance to grow into a huge crimson fungus. The crimson stem, shroomlight, or Nether wart blocks may replace certain blocks including slabs and torches.

Breeding

Crimson fungus can be used to breed hoglins and keep them from despawning, but feeding hoglins does not stop them from attacking the player.

Composting

Placing a crimson fungus into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

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Sounds

Java Edition:

`fungus` sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.fungus.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
	Block placed^{[until: JE 26.4]}	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.fungus.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
	Block breaking^{[sound 1]}	Blocks	Not normally encounterable^{[sound 2]}	`block.fungus.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
	Something falls on a block^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.fungus.fall`	`subtitles.block.generic.fall`	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.fungus.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.135	0.9/1.12	16

↑ ^a ^b Does not display due to the lack of attached audio: MC-311504
↑ Since all blocks this sound type applies to break instantly, this can never be heard in normal gameplay. Besides playing manually via /playsound, it can only be encountered with a Mining Fatigue level of 86 or above: MC-311511

Bedrock Edition:

`fungus` sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.fungus`	?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	?	Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.fungus`	?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`dig.fungus`	?	0.25	0.5
	?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	`dig.fungus`	?	0.4	1.0
	?	Blocks	Walking on the block	`dig.fungus`	?	0.15	1.0
	?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	`dig.fungus`	?	0.12	1.0
	?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	`dig.fungus`	?	0.14	1.0

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