Do Mushrooms Regrow?

[aWolfSurviving]

I recently started a new save and I was just wondering if mushrooms regrow, when I first started I would always just harvest all the mushrooms but now I just leave them there hoping they regrow.

[Voldemort]

No, they are generated with the world, at least from what I saw in vanilla. Same with resin from trees.

 

[Thorfinn]

They used to come back, though it was not fast. About the same as reeds. I'm not a mushroom kind of guy except in extremis, so have not witnessed it myself recently, but I have not seen any patch notes about it being changed, and more importantly, there have not been hundreds of posts asking for it to be changed back.

[7embre]

From what I've noticed, they do regrow. However, not in the same spot, but rather in the same general area. How did I know? I just marked spots with mushrooms to collect them again in the future, and found none at the mark, but noticed a new bunch that wasn't present there before about 20 blocks away.

[Thorfinn]

Twenty blocks is a lot. I suspect that was probably a second mushroom zone that just didn't have mushrooms the first time.

If you want a little more "under-the-hood" understanding without reading the code, try out the mod Dana Tweaks, and enable, I don't remember, mycelium, maybe? It will highlight regions where mushrooms can spawn. I wouldn't play with it on, but it's a good way to get a visual understanding of how that works.

[idiomcritter]

2 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

mycelium, maybe? It will highlight regions where mushrooms can spawn.

to build on this, my personal observation from game play has to do with a certain area where I was landscaping.  seems grass blocks going through an update (remove and replace the grass/dirt block, or covering then removing a block on top of the grass/dirt block) will cause either new grass to grow in the spot, or sprout a mushroom (sooner?)

[7embre]

2 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

Twenty blocks is a lot. I suspect that was probably a second mushroom zone that just didn't have mushrooms the first time.

If you want a little more "under-the-hood" understanding without reading the code, try out the mod Dana Tweaks, and enable, I don't remember, mycelium, maybe? It will highlight regions where mushrooms can spawn. I wouldn't play with it on, but it's a good way to get a visual understanding of how that works.

I have a giant meadow a few hundred blocks in diameter to the north of my house, and mushrooms (puffballs) pop here and there, but never did I see them in the same spot exactly on my mark, it become aparent after third harvest. Looked like they grow like.. mushrooms IRL, in relatively the same "biome"

[Thorfinn]

55 minutes ago, idiomcritter said:

will cause either new grass to grow in the spot, or sprout a mushroom (sooner?)

Exactly. It's kind of exploity, but not game breaking. I guess you could use it to get a stock of mushrooms in your cellar, but turnips are so much easier.

I guess if you wanted to "farm" mushrooms there, the most effective way would be to lay down a layer of dirt over the whole area and let it go through its growth stages, then dig them back off so you have fresh dirt underneath. Seems like a lot of work, though.

[EDIT]

I sometimes do something similar to get fields full of grass. Remove any that don't have grass on them and put the dirt back in the holes. If you pick a place with lots of grass, most of those will spawn grass in one of the stages. Remove and replace whatever didn't grow. A few iterations and your scything always gets 6.

Edited January 30, 2025 by Thorfinn