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Mycelium is only found natively in Mushroom Island Biomes.
Behavior
Mycelium behaves in a number of ways:
- When harvested, it will yield one dirt block, unless harvested using an enchanted "Silk Touch" tool which has a chance of dropping a Mycelium block (otherwise can only be acquired via inventory hacks, or SMP commands from an op).
- It slowly spreads out to cover bare dirt blocks. Because Mycelium is only found in Mushroom Land biomes, providing it with a dirt path to grow into or using pistons are the only "legitimate" ways to grow it outside the Mushroom Land biome. As of Beta 1.9 pre-release 4, it can be harvested by a sword with the Silk Touch enchantment.
- It grows faster when light is near, unlike the habits of real fungi.
- When covered in snow, the sides will use the same texture as snow-covered grass.
- When placing a grass block in mushroom biomes, it will turn into Mycelium.[citation needed]
- It is extremely sensitive to water. In the time it takes a Water source block to fully spread out and recede on flat land, 20-40% of Mycelium blocks under the water will have reverted to dirt.
Other behaviors:
- Saplings and Flowers cannot be placed on Mycelium, but Mycelium can spread beneath them, which causes them to drop as items from the spot.
- Mycelium is also the only block on which mushrooms can stay when an adjacent block is updated despite a light level that is too high for the Mushroom to remain.
- Mushrooms spread faster on Mycelium than on other blocks.
- Mycelium cannot be tilled with a Hoe.
- The tops of Mycelium blocks have a particle effect that resembles tiny spores being released constantly from the surface. This effect persists even when the Mycelium block is covered in snow.
- Mycelium and grass do not replace one another.
- Unlike other dirt-like blocks, Mycelium does not harvest at a higher rate using a shovel, but instead is weaker to swords. It is unknown if this is intentional or a bug.
Gallery
- MyceliumPart.png
Some Mycelium making up a small hill in a mushroom biome.
- MushroomBiome19pre.png
A Mushroom Biome, primarily composed of Mycelium.
See also
- Mycelium on Wikipedia
