Mooshroom

This article is about a variant of cow spawning in mushroom fields biomes. For the hostile mob in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Mooshroom. For the 2020 mob vote mob, see Moobloom.

Not to be confused with Mushroom, MCE:Moobloom, or MCE:Moolip.

Mooshroom

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

Health points	10HP
Behavior	Passive
Mob type	Animal
Hitbox size	Adult: Height: 1.4 blocks Width: 0.9 blocks Baby: Height: 0.7 blocks Width: 0.45 blocks
Speed	0.2
Spawn	Mushroom Fields
Usable items	Bucket Bowl Shears Wheat Flowers (brown variant only) Lead Name Tag Golden Dandelion (baby and brown variant only)

A mooshroom is a mushroom-covered variant of the cow exclusive to the mushroom fields biome. Mooshrooms are a great source of mushroom stew and leather.

Spawning

Red mooshrooms can spawn in mushroom fields biomes in herds of 4–8 on mycelium blocks. They do not naturally spawn in any other biome.

Red mooshrooms have a 5% chance of spawning as babies.

A red mooshroom transforms into a brown mooshroom, and vice versa, when it is struck by lightning. Brown mooshrooms never spawn naturally.

Mooshroom spawns in:

Category: Creature	Java Edition			Bedrock Edition
Spawn area	Spawn weight	Spawn chance	Group size	Spawn weight	Group size
Mushroom Fields	8⁄8	100%	4–8	8	4–8

Breeding

A pair of mooshrooms can breed when being given wheat. A mooshroom cannot be bred with a cow.

Breeding two red mooshrooms has a ¹⁄₁₀₂₄ chance to spawn a brown baby variant and vice versa. When breeding a red mooshroom and a brown mooshroom together, the baby has a ¹⁄₂ chance of being either variant.

Feeding wheat to a baby mooshroom shortens its growing time by 10% of the remaining time. Baby mooshrooms do not have mushrooms on their backs; they appear once the baby grows to an adult.

Drops

Breeding

1–7XP upon successful breeding

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	1–3	100.00%	2.00	1–4	100.00%	2.50	1–5	100.00%	3.00	1–6	100.00%	3.50
	Steak[B]	1–3	100.00%	2.00	1–4	100.00%	2.50	1–5	100.00%	3.00	1–6	100.00%	3.50
	Leather	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	83.33%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00	0–5	94.44%	2.50

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	1–3	1	2	1–4	1	5⁄2	1–5	1	3	1–6	1	7⁄2
	Steak[B]	1–3	1	2	1–4	1	5⁄2	1–5	1	3	1–6	1	7⁄2
	Leather	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	5⁄6	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2	0–5	17⁄18	5⁄2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		5	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)
	Steak[B]	1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		5	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)
	Leather	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	2.00	2.50	3.00	3.50
	Steak[B]	2.00	2.50	3.00	3.50
	Leather	1.00	1.50	2.00	2.50

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	1–3	100.00%	2.00	1–4	100.00%	2.50	1–5	100.00%	3.00	1–6	100.00%	3.50
	Steak[B]	1–3	100.00%	2.00	1–4	100.00%	2.50	1–5	100.00%	3.00	1–6	100.00%	3.50
	Leather	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	66.67%	1.33	0–4	66.67%	1.67	0–5	66.67%	2.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	1–3	1	2	1–4	1	5⁄2	1–5	1	3	1–6	1	7⁄2
	Steak[B]	1–3	1	2	1–4	1	5⁄2	1–5	1	3	1–6	1	7⁄2
	Leather	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	2⁄3	4⁄3	0–4	2⁄3	5⁄3	0–5	2⁄3	2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		5	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)
	Steak[B]	1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		5	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)
	Leather	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	2⁄9 (22.22%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	4⁄3 (1.33)	5⁄3 (1.67)	2 (2.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	2.00	2.50	3.00	3.50
	Steak[B]	2.00	2.50	3.00	3.50
	Leather	1.00	1.33	1.67	2.00

• 1–3XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

Shearing a mooshroom drops 5 corresponding mushrooms and turns the mooshroom into a temperate cow, emitting a smaller version of the explosion particle. The mushrooms do not grow back.

Like other baby animals, killing a baby mooshroom yields no items or experience.

Behavior

Mooshrooms have the same AI behavior as cows: they walk around slowly and aimlessly, huffing and mooing occasionally. They avoid danger such as cliffs, fire, or lava, but make no attempt to stay out of water.

A mooshroom follows a player holding wheat.

A lightning strike within 4 blocks of a mooshroom switches its color, from red to brown and vice versa. Mooshrooms do not take damage from lightning during this transformation.

Milking

A mooshroom can be milked by using a bucket on it, yielding a milk bucket. Mooshrooms can also be milked using bowls to get mushroom stew.

When a small flower is fed to a brown mooshroom, the brown mooshroom produces a suspicious stew related to that small flower the next time it is milked with a bowl. Red mooshrooms do not produce suspicious stew. The brown mooshroom returns to producing mushroom stew until fed another small flower. The small flowers produce the suspicious stew with the following effects.

Flower	Effect	Duration	Type
Allium	Fire Resistance	3s	Positive
Azure Bluet Open Eyeblossom	Blindness	11s‌[JE only] 7s‌[BE only]	Negative
Blue Orchid Dandelion Golden Dandelion	Saturation	0.35s‌[JE only] 0.3s‌[BE only]	Positive
Closed Eyeblossom	Nausea	7s	Negative
Cornflower	Jump Boost	5s	Positive
Lily of the Valley	Poison	11s	Negative
Oxeye Daisy	Regeneration	7s	Positive
Poppy Torchflower	Night Vision	5s	Positive
Tulips	Weakness	7s	Negative
Wither Rose	Wither	7s	Negative

Jockey

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

15% of nearby baby zombies, husks, or drowned may ride an adult mooshroom to form a jockey.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Mooshroom	mooshroom	entity.minecraft.mooshroom

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Family	Translation key
Mooshroom	mooshroom	16	mob mushroomcow	entity.mooshroom.name

Entity data

Mooshrooms have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Java Edition:

Variant	Identifier
Red	red
Brown	brown

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Repopulation	Breed two cows with wheat.	Breed two cows or two mooshrooms.	15	Bronze
		Cow Tipper	Harvest some leather.	Pick up leather from the ground or via fishing.	15	Bronze
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this achievement.	10	Bronze

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
		Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear	Armor stands and players also count for this achievement as they are technically mobs.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Breed a pair of any of these 27 animals: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Nautilus Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	Breed a pair of each of these 26 animals: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Nautilus Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				Added mooshrooms.
							They cannot be milked with a bucket like regular cows can. Right clicking on a mooshroom with more than one bowl equipped turns the whole stack into just one bowl of mushroom stew.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				Breeding a cow with a mooshroom may result in either, chosen randomly. The offspring may be more likely to be the kind the player gave wheat to first, similarly to sheep.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				The mooshroom's horns have been moved.
							The mooshroom udder's model is changed, but the texture isn't changed to match the new model, resulting in the texture on the udder being off-placed.[1]
							Added baby mooshrooms.
							Mooshrooms can now be bred with wheat.
1.2.1			12w07a				Mooshrooms can no longer breed with cows.
			12w07b				Mooshrooms have a new AI system.
1.4.2			12w38a				Added new step, hurt, and idle sounds for mooshroom.
1.6.1			13w16a				Added leads, which can be used to leash mooshrooms.
1.8			14w02a				Baby mooshroom growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
			14w05b				Mooshroom's mushrooms are no longer visible when they have the Invisibility effect.
			14w26b				Mooshrooms now require mycelium, not grass, for random spawning and spawning from mob spawners.
1.8.2			pre5				Fixed mooshroom udder texture not displaying correctly.
							Fixed mooshrooms incorrectly displaying custom mushroom models.
							Changed Mooshroom's Mushroom model.
1.9			15w31a				It is no longer possible to get stew from mooshrooms in Creative mode.[2]
			15w39a				Mooshrooms are now slightly taller (1.4 blocks tall rather than 1.3, with babies 0.7 blocks tall rather than 0.65).
MINECON Earth 2018							The Mojang panel debates whether to add brown mooshrooms.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of the mooshroom and baby mooshroom have been changed.
			19w08a				Added the brown mooshroom variant, which spawns when a regular mooshroom is struck by lightning.
							Brown mooshrooms give the player suspicious stew when fed a flower.
							Breeding two red mooshrooms has a 1⁄1024 chance to spawn a brown baby variant, and vice versa.
1.15			19w39a				The textures of the mushrooms on mooshrooms have been flipped.
							The model of baby mooshrooms have been changed.
1.16			20w15a				Mooshrooms can now be sheared by dispensers.
			pre1				It is once again possible to get stew from mooshrooms in Creative mode.
1.21.2			24w33a				Due to a bug, the baby red and brown mooshroom models are currently broken.[3]
			24w34a				The baby red and brown mooshroom models are now been fixed.
1.21.5			25w05a				The red and brown mooshroom models have been updated to include an extruded snout and mirrored legs.
							Other than being resized, the texture itself hasn't changed, meaning the extruded snout is not visible by default.
			25w07a				The textures for both variants have been updated.
			25w10a				The red and brown baby models now have their heads positioned correctly, to match parity with Bedrock Edition.
26.1			snap2				The model and textures of baby mooshrooms have been changed.
			snap5				Added golden dandelions, which can be used to prevent baby red mooshrooms from growing up.
							Golden dandelions currently do not age-lock baby brown mooshrooms and instead set their stew effect.
			snap8				Golden dandelions now age-lock baby brown mooshrooms.[4]
							Small flowers (except the golden dandelion) can no longer be used on baby brown mooshrooms. Previously, using a small flower on one defined the effect of the first suspicious stew obtained for when it's milked as an adult.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0			build 1				Added mooshrooms and their baby variant.
v0.14.0			build 1				Baby zombies jockeys can now mount mooshrooms when trying to attack players, villagers, or golems.
v0.15.0			build 1				Baby husks can now mount mooshrooms.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of mooshrooms and baby mooshrooms have been changed.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.9				Added brown mooshrooms.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.22				Mooshrooms now spawn at light level 9 or above.[5]
1.21.70			Preview 1.21.70.23				The textures of mooshrooms have been changed. Most notably, the nose now extrudes from their models.
							For whatever reason, the mushrooms on the adult mooshrooms are now hardcoded and can no longer be modified via resource packs.
26.0 Experiment Drop 1 of 2026			Preview 26.0.27				The model and textures of baby mooshrooms have been changed.
							Tweaked the bounding box of both adult and baby mooshrooms to align with Java Edition and the new model.
							Due to a bug, the models of adult mooshrooms are slightly broken.[6]
26.10			Preview 26.10.20				All features behind the "Drop 1 of 2026" experimetal toggle are fully implemented.
			Preview 26.10.21				The models of adult mooshrooms have been fixed.
							Added golden dandelions, which can be used to prevent baby mooshrooms from growing up.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU7	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added mooshrooms and baby mooshrooms.
							Mooshrooms can be bred using wheat.
							Mooshrooms can rarely spawn in the plains biome.
TU11							Mooshrooms can no longer be sheared if the spawn limit for animals is reached.
TU12							Mooshrooms can no longer breed with cows.
TU14		1.04					Using a mooshroom spawn egg, baby mooshrooms can now be spawned by using // on a mooshroom.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Baby mooshroom growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
							The sounds of mooshrooms have been updated.
TU34	CU22	1.25	1.25	1.25	Patch 4		Mooshrooms now have separate spawn limits.
TU56	CU47	1.55	1.55	1.55	Patch 26	1.0.6	Mooshrooms can now be milked in Creative mode.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added mooshrooms.

• 
  Glitched red mooshroom in 19w38a
• 
  Glitched brown mooshroom in 19w38a

Data history

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Issues

Issues relating to "Mooshroom" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• In Minecraft Earth, there was a buttercup-covered variant of mooshrooms known as "mooblooms".^[7] This variant was also part of the Minecraft Live 2020 Mob Vote. It came last and there are currently no known plans to add it to the game.
• Unlike cows, mooshrooms do not have a Moody sound variant.

Gallery

Mojang screenshots

• 
  A red mooshroom
• 
  A brown mooshroom
• 

Development images

• 
  The first image released of the mooshroom

Screenshots

• 
  A dying mooshroom
• 
  A series of mooshrooms spawned on top of a huge red mushroom
• 
  A baby mooshroom
• 
  A few mooshrooms next to a lake
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  A mooshroom in a minecart
• 
  Adult and baby forms of the red and brown mooshrooms

Mojang artwork

• 
  A mooshroom
• 
  A close-up of a mooshroom

Textures

• 
  New mooshroom texture file
• 
  New brown mooshroom texture file
• 
  Baby mooshroom texture file
• 
  Baby brown mooshroom texture file
• 
  Programmer Art red mooshroom texture file
• 
  Programmer Art brown mooshroom texture file

In other media

• 
  Artwork of a mooshroom
• 
  Flippin' Figs mooshroom figure
• 
  A LEGO Minecraft minifigure of a mooshroom
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  A baby mooshroom plush made by JINX
• 
  The plush in a field
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  A mooshroom as it appears in Deep Dive!
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  A mooshroom as seen in Minecraft: Story Mode
• 
  A mooshroom as seen in Minecraft Dungeons

External links

• Cordyceps fungi
• "Mob Menagerie: Mooshroom" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, January 11, 2025.

References