Mooshroom

Red Adult
Brown Adult
Red Baby (JE)
Brown Baby (JE)
Red Baby (BE)
Brown Baby (BE)

Classification

Animal

Behavior

Passive

Usable items

Details

Size

In Java Edition:

Adult:
Height: 1.4 Blocks
Width: 0.9 Blocks
Baby:
Height: 0.7 Blocks
Width: 0.45 Blocks
In Bedrock Edition:
Adult:
Height: 1.3 Blocks
Width: 0.9 Blocks
Baby:
Height: 0.65 Blocks
Width: 0.45 Blocks

Mooshrooms are mushroom-covered variants of cows exclusive to the rare mushroom fields biome. Although they look similar to cows, they are not cows.

Spawning[]

Red mooshrooms can spawn in mushroom fields biomes in herds of 4–8 when the light level is 9 or higher and on mycelium. They do not naturally spawn in any other biome. A red mooshroom transforms into a brown mooshroom (and vice versa) when it is struck by lightning. Brown mooshrooms never spawn naturally. Red mooshrooms have a 5% chance of spawning as babies. Cows do not spawn in mushroom fields biomes.

Breeding[]

A pair of mooshrooms can breed after being given wheat. A mooshroom cannot be bred with a cow unless the mooshroom has been sheared.

Feeding wheat to a calf shortens its growing time by 10% of the remaining time. Baby mooshrooms do not have mushrooms on their backs. Mushrooms appear once the baby grows to an adult. 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, there is a 50% chance for the baby mooshroom to be either red or brown.

Drops[]

When an adult mooshroom is killed, it drops:

1 Raw Beef (Steak if killed while on fire). The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 1-6 with Looting III.
0–2 Leather. The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-5 with Looting III.
1–3 (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

Upon successful breeding, 1–7 is dropped.

Shearing a mooshroom drops 5 corresponding mushrooms and turns the mooshroom into a normal cow, emitting a smaller version of the explosion particle. The mushrooms don't grow back. This implies that mooshrooms are normal cows that have been infected with mushrooms.

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. Although they behave similarly to cows, it is important to note that they are not the same as cows.

A mooshroom follows a player holding wheat. A lightning strike on a mooshroom switches its color, from red to brown, or brown to red.

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 used on 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 (BE)	Duration (JE)
Allium	Fire Resistance	2s	4s
Azure Bluet	Blindness	6s	8s
Blue Orchid Dandelion	Saturation	0.3s	0.35s
Cornflower	Jump Boost	4s	6s
Lily of the Valley	Poison	10s	12s
Oxeye Daisy	Regeneration	6s	8s
Poppy Torchflower	Night Vision	4s	5s
Tulips	Weakness	7s	9s
Wither Rose	Wither	6s	8s

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Mooshrooms use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Cow moos ^{[sound 1]}	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	`entity.cow.ambient`^{[sound 1]}	`subtitles.entity.cow.ambient`^{[sound 1]}	0.4	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
Cow dies^{[sound 1]}	Friendly Creatures	When a mooshroom dies	`entity.cow.death`^{[sound 1]}	`subtitles.entity.cow.death`^{[sound 1]}	0.4	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
Cow hurts^{[sound 1]}	Friendly Creatures	When a mooshroom is damaged	`entity.cow.hurt`^{[sound 1]}	`subtitles.entity.cow.hurt`^{[sound 1]}	0.4	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	While a mooshroom is walking	`entity.cow.step`^{[sound 1]}	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16
Mooshroom transforms	Friendly Creatures	When a mooshroom is struck by lightning	`entity.mooshroom.convert`	`subtitles.entity.mooshroom.convert`	1.5	1.0	16
Mooshroom eats	Friendly Creatures	When a brown mooshroom is fed a flower	`entity.mooshroom.eat`	`subtitles.entity.mooshroom.eat`	2.0	varies ^{[sound 2]}	16
Cow gets milked^{[sound 1]}	Friendly Creatures	When a mooshroom is milked	`entity.cow.milk`^{[sound 1]}	`subtitles.entity.cow.milk`^{[sound 1]}	1.0	1.0	16
Mooshroom gets milked	Friendly Creatures	When a mooshroom is milked with a bowl	`entity.mooshroom.milk`	`subtitles.entity.mooshroom.milk`	1.0	varies ^{[sound 3]}	16
Mooshroom gets milked suspiciously	Friendly Creatures	When a brown mooshroom is milked with a bowl after being fed a flower	`entity.mooshroom.suspicious_milk`	`subtitles.entity.mooshroom.suspicious_milk`	1.0	varies ^{[sound 3]}	16
Shears click	Friendly Creatures	When a mooshroom is sheared	`entity.mooshroom.shear`	`subtitles.item.shear`	1.0	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m The mooshroom reuses many of the cow's sound events instead of having its own, resulting in these unintuitive subtitles - see MC-98316
↑ Can be 1.0, 0.95, or 1.05 for each sound
↑ ^a ^b Can be 1.0, 0.9, or 1.1 for each sound

Bedrock Edition:

Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
Friendly Creatures	Randomly	`mob.cow.say`	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
Friendly Creatures	When a mooshroom dies	`mob.cow.hurt`	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
Friendly Creatures	When a mooshroom is damaged	`mob.cow.hurt`	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
Friendly Creatures	While a mooshroom is walking	`mob.cow.step`	0.65	0.9-1.1
Friendly Creatures	When a mooshroom is struck by lightning	`mob.mooshroom.convert`	0.75	1.0
Friendly Creatures	When a brown mooshroom is fed a flower	`mob.mooshroom.eat`	1.0/0.95/1.05	0.8-1.2
Friendly Creatures	When a mooshroom is milked	`mob.cow.milk`	1.0	1.0
Friendly Creatures	When a mooshroom is milked with a bowl	`mob.mooshroom.suspicious_milk`	1.0/0.9/1.1	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Mooshroom	`mooshroom`	`entity.minecraft.mooshroom`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Mooshroom	`mooshroom`	`16`	`entity.mooshroom.name`

Entity data[]

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

Java Edition:

Entity data
- Additional fields for mobs that can breed
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
- EffectDuration: Optional. An integer indicating the duration of the status effect the brown mooshroom may give to a suspicious stew.
- EffectId: Optional. A byte indicating the type of the status effect the brown mooshroom may give to a suspicious stew.
- Type: ID of the mooshroom's type.

Mooshroom type

[edit]

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements[]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		Repopulation	Breed two cows with wheat.	Breed two cows or two mooshrooms.	15G	Bronze

Advancements[]

Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Monster Hunter	Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Axolotl Bee Blaze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Chicken Jockey Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Skeleton Horseman Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Spider Jockey Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.	`adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst`
The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of any of these 25 mobs: Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule 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.	`husbandry/breed_an_animal`
Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed a pair of each of these 25 mobs: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule 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.	`husbandry/bred_all_animals`

History[]

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The specific instructions are: Did the mushrooms previously have shading before 1.8?

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Added mooshrooms.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			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 broken udder glitch.^[1]
					Added baby mooshrooms.
					Mooshrooms can now be bred with wheat.
1.2.1		12w07a			Mooshrooms can no longer breed with cows.
1.2.1		12w07b			Mooshrooms have a new AI.
1.4.2		12w38a			Added new step, hurt, and idle sounds for mooshroom.
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 under texture not displaying correctly.
1.8.2		pre5			Fixed mooshrooms incorrectly displaying incorrect mushroom models.
1.9		15w39a			Mooshrooms are now slightly taller (1.24 blocks tall rather than 1.23, with babies 0.7 blocks tall rather than 0.065).
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID of the mooshroom has now been changed from `MushroomCow` to `mooshroom`.
MINECON Earth 2018					The Mojang panel debates whether to add mooshrooms.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of the mooshroom and baby mooshroom have been changed.
		19w08a			Added brown mooshroom variant, which spawn when a regular mooshroom is struck by lightning.
					Brown mooshrooms give the player suspicious stew when fed a flower.
					Breeding two red mooshrooms has ¹⁄₁₀₂₄ to spawn a brown baby variant, and vice versa.
1.15		19w39a			The textures of the mushrooms on mooshrooms have been flipped.
1.15		19w39a			The models of the baby mooshrooms have been changed.
1.16		20w15a			Mooshrooms can now be sheared by dispensers.
1.16		Pre-release 1			It is now possible to get stew from mooshrooms in creative mode.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0		build 1			Added mooshrooms and their baby variant.
v0.14.0		build 1			Baby zombie jockeys can now mount mooshrooms when trying to attack players, villagers, or golems.
v0.15.0		build 1			Baby husks can now mount mooshrooms.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			The entity ID of the mooshroom has now been changed from `mushroomcow` to `mooshroom`.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of the mooshroom and baby mooshroom have been changed.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Added brown mooshrooms.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added mooshrooms and baby mooshrooms.
TU7		1.0			Mooshrooms can be bred using wheat.
TU14		1.04			Using a mooshroom spawn egg, baby mooshrooms can now be spawned by using // on an adult mooshroom.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Baby mooshroom growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		The sounds of mooshrooms have been updated.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added mooshrooms.

The first image released of the mooshroom.
Glitched mooshroom at 19w38a
Glitched brown mooshroom at 19w38a

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Mooshroom" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

Moobloom — The moobloom in *Minecraft Earth*.

Mooshrooms are the fourth mob in the game that are directly affected by being struck by lightning.
In Minecraft Earth, there was a buttercup-covered variant of mooshrooms known as "mooblooms".^[2] This variant was also part of the Minecraft Live 2020 Mob Vote. It came last and there are currently no plans to add it to the game.