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Mooshrooms are unique forms of cows that spawn in the Mushroom biome.

Appearance

Mooshrooms use the same model as the cow, but have red skin(with the white patches also used by the cows), black eyes, and are covered with red mushroom growths.

Uses

Mooshrooms can be sheared for 2-5 red mushrooms, which turns them into cows. Sheared Mooshrooms cannot be reverted back to Mooshrooms. If killed, they drop leather and raw beef (steak if killed with fire), exactly like cows. Mooshrooms can be milked with a bucket as well, but also can be "milked" with an empty bowl to obtain a bowl of mushroom stew making them very useful.

Behavior

Mooshrooms roam the Overworld Mushroom biome in herds of 4—8. Mooshrooms make no attempt to stay out of water, and will bob up and down to stay afloat.

Breeding

Main article: Breeding

Breeding a pair of Mooshrooms will produce another Mooshroom. If you shear the baby Mooshroom´s parents, the parents stop following the baby.

Baby Mooshrooms will walk faster and are followed by their parents. They will not drop anything when killed, but still can be milked and sheared. Shearing will turn the baby Mooshrooms into Calves.

History

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1.9pre1Mooshrooms were added. Mooshrooms only inhabit the Mushroom biome. They also could not be milked with a bucket like regular cows can. Right clicking on a Mooshroom with more than one bowl equipped would turn the whole stack into just one bowl of mushroom stew.
1.9pre2Breeding a cow with a Mooshroom may result in either, chosen randomly. The offspring may be more likely to be the kind you gave wheat to first, similarly to Sheep. However, Mooshrooms do not follow wheat like other passive mobs.
1.9pre3Shearing a Mooshroom would cause it to split into two regular cows that could not be killed.
1.9pre4Mooshrooms may now spawn in other biomes as well.
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12w07bMooshrooms have the new AI system.
1.2.3Fixed shearing bug.(please verify if this is the correct version)
1.2.5Fixed mushroom stew "milking" bug.(please verify if this is the correct version)
Mooshrooms can no longer breed with cows.(please verify if this is the correct version)
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12w38aAdded new step, hurt, and idle sounds.

Video

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Gallery

Bugs

  • In SMP when a Mooshroom is sheared, a server-side cow spawns, as well as a client-side cow that spawns for the player who sheared the Mooshroom. (This bug was partially fixed in update 1.2.3, however it would still occur rarely.)This phantom "ghost cow" cannot be hit, does not obey block physics, and can be clipped through.
  • When a Mooshroom is sheared after it has already bred once, it can be bred again immediately.

Trivia

  • The Mooshroom's name is a portmanteau of "moo," the sound Cows make, and "mushroom."
  • When a Mooshroom transforms into a normal cow by shearing, it emits smoke particles.
  • When sheared, Mooshrooms drop red mushrooms and not brown mushrooms. However, one can "milk" a Mooshroom with a bowl to obtain mushroom stew, which normally needs both red mushrooms and brown mushrooms to create.
  • Mooshrooms are similar to infected insects with Cordyceps fungi. Just like Cordyceps fungi growing on infected insects and terrestrial arthropods, mushrooms also grow on the Mooshroom.
  • It is very similar to a famous cow on a popular milk brand sold in Sweden (and other countries) known as the "Arla cow".
  • Because a Mooshroom can be "milked" repeatedly for mushroom stew, they can be used for an infinite food source.
  • Despite having only 3 mushrooms on their backs, Mooshrooms can be sheared for 2-5 mushrooms.
  • The Mooshroom is called mushroomcow in the game code and its mesh is called redcow.
  • When hit by a Potion of Invisibility , the Mooshroom's body will be invisible, but the mushrooms on it's back are still visible.

References

  1. Note: Mooshrooms have a small chance of spawning outside Mushroom Biomes. Check in-game code if in doubt.

See also

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