Building a Minecraft Mushroom Farm: Automatic Farm for Food, Brewing, and Decoration

Mushrooms are among the most versatile resources in Minecraft. Whether for delicious mushroom soups, useful potions, or as decoration – they are indispensable. However, manually collecting them can be time-consuming. With an automatic mushroom farm, you ensure a steady supply. In this guide, you’ll learn how to build your own mushroom farm in just a few steps!

Mushrooms in Minecraft: Food, Potions, and More

Mushrooms come in two variations: a brown and a red mushroom. Both have been part of Minecraft since the earliest Classic versions, and their functionality has surprisingly changed very little since then!

Where to Find Mushrooms in Minecraft

While playing Minecraft, you’ve surely encountered a mushroom or two. They grow practically everywhere if the light level is below 12. You’re most likely to find them under trees or in dark caves. You’ll also find mushrooms in the Nether! You can harvest and collect them just like any other vegetation with your bare hand. One of the best features of mushrooms is that they spread if you don’t harvest them. We’ll take advantage of this fact later when setting up the automatic farm.

If you’re specifically looking for mushrooms, the corresponding biome is your best destination. The Mushroom Island is rare and only available as an island, but it’s full of mushrooms! Additionally, the biome is very unique, as you’ll also find Mooshroom cows infected by mushrooms. You can shear these cows to remove the mushrooms. Moreover, no hostile mobs spawn here, making the biome unique.

Mushrooms as a Food Source: Soup and More

Mushrooms are used in three delicious recipes, ensuring you are always well-fed. Mushroom stew has been available for many years and can be crafted and enjoyed with both variants and a bowl. For a complete rabbit stew, you only need one of the best mushrooms. Lastly, you can cook a suspicious stew, where different flowers give you specific effects.

Mushrooms for Brewing: Crafting Useful Potions

A brown mushroom is also needed to create fermented spider eyes, along with sugar and a regular spider eye. With this, you can brew various potions, depending on the recipe. You can brew a Potion of Slowness, Harming, Weakness, or Invisibility with the fermented spider eye.

Mushrooms as Decoration: Creative Uses

You can also use mushrooms simply as decoration. They can be placed on any block and used as natural decor. They add a lot of variety and can be well integrated into builds. For your home, you can also put them in flower pots, which looks nice as well!

The small mushrooms can also be grown into their large variants with bone meal, which you can find in swamps, dark forests, or Mushroom Islands. They are also a wonderful way to give your world a new look and create a unique decoration.

Building an Automatic Mushroom Farm in Minecraft: Step-by-Step

A mushroom farm relies on the mushrooms’ ability to grow on their own. Players have been taking advantage of this since the early versions and can easily integrate it into modern Minecraft. We just need to ensure enough mushrooms grow and are automatically harvested. Water and hoppers are our friends here. We’ll also use a simple Redstone clock to automatically turn the water on and off.

The farm works best if you build the design we present multiple times on top of each other. Six of these chambers should be sufficient to collect enough mushrooms. They grow rather slowly, so it might take some time for the farm to function properly.

Materials for Building an Automatic Mushroom Farm

For one chamber:

• 1 stack of podzol
• several stacks of building blocks
• 2 trapdoors + 2 water buckets
• 2 Redstone torches
• 1 lever
• 1 hopper + chest + sign
• 24 mushrooms

Redstone Hopper Clock:

• 2 hoppers
• 2 Redstone comparators
• 6 Redstone dust
• 2 sticky pistons
• 1 Redstone block
• 1 stack of items

Automatic Mushroom Farm: Step-by-Step Guide

First, we create a setup that allows the mushrooms to spread. The best dimension is 4x4 blocks, as this allows them to multiply efficiently. We use two platforms for this, each with a row in between. Mushrooms are placed at the ends and in the middle, both above and below. Use the mushrooms you need or mix both types.

Next, we lay the foundation for the Redstone. Build a small staircase in the middle and attach a Redstone torch at the back of the lower block and on the side of the upper block. If you want to activate the farm manually, simply use a lever or button to control the water.

In addition to the Redstone, we now need water, which will remove the mushrooms. Use a trapdoor and water for this. Use additional building blocks (like the glass in the image) to prevent the water from overflowing.

On the opposite side, we build the collection mechanism. Everything must be enclosed here as well, with holes at the ends for the mushrooms to fall through. Build two small water trenches that meet in the middle at a hopper. Place a sign above the hopper to stop the water.

And that’s it! Once enough mushrooms have grown, simply flip the lever and the water will wash all the mushrooms into the chest. You can build the farm as high as you like to collect even more mushrooms.

Bonus: Automating with a Redstone Hopper Clock

With an automatic Redstone hopper clock, you don’t have to do anything yourself. It uses two hoppers pointing into each other, continuously exchanging items and sending a Redstone signal. You can see the setup in our image. Comparators compare the contents of the hoppers, and sticky pistons move a Redstone block back and forth. The more items you have in the hoppers, the longer the signal lasts. We recommend 30 blocks of one type, but feel free to vary this.

Conclusion: Why an Automatic Mushroom Farm in Minecraft is Essential

Mushrooms have the unique ability to grow on their own. We take advantage of this in a farm that operates completely automatically! Ensure you always have enough mushrooms to support your adventures. Rent your Minecraft server and build an effective mushroom farm! You can then use the mushrooms as stylish decor, for brewing important potions, or as food.