Mooshroom

Mooshrooms are mushroom-covered variants of cows exclusive to the rare mushroom fields biome.

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.

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.

Drops
When an adult mooshroom is killed, it drops:


 * 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 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.


 * 1-3 XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

Upon successful breeding, 1-7 XP 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.

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

Milking
A mooshroom can be milked by using a bucket on it, yielding a milk bucket. The player can then use the milk bucket to consume the milk, which removes any status effects from the player.

Mooshrooms can also be milked with bowls to give mushroom stew.

Behavior
Mooshrooms have the same AI behavior as cows: they tend to 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.

History

 * Mooshrooms and baby mooshrooms were added in Xbox 360 TU7, Xbox One CU1, PlayStation 3 1.0, WiiU Patch 1, and Nintendo Switch 1.0.1.
 * In Xbox 360 TU14 and PlayStation 3 1.04, using a mooshroom spawn egg, baby mooshrooms could be spawned by using Left Trigger (Xbox), L2 Trigger (PlayStation), or ZL button (WiiU) on an adult mooshroom.
 * A feature was added in Xbox 360 TU31, Xbox One CU19, PlayStation 3 1.22, and WiiU Patch 3 where baby mooshroom growth could be accelerated using wheat. The sounds of mooshrooms were updated.
 * The textures for the mooshroom and baby mooshroom were changed in PlayStation 4 1.90 as part of the Texture Update.