How do you tame a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?

For the mob in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD: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. A red mooshroom transforms into a brown mooshroom (and vice versa) when it is struck by lightning. Brown mooshrooms never spawn naturally.

Red mooshrooms have a 5% chance of spawning as babies.

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.

Breeding two red mooshrooms has a 1⁄1024 chance to spawn a brown baby variant and vice versa.

When breeding a red mooshroom and a brown mooshroom together, there is 1⁄2 chance of getting a red baby variant, and a 1⁄2 chance of getting a brown baby variant.

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 (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

Upon successful breeding, 1–7 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.

Behavior[]

Mooshrooms have the same AI behavior as cows: they 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.

A lightning strike on a mooshroom switches its color, from red to brown, or brown to red.

Milking[]

A mooshroom can be milked by using a bucket on it, yielding a milk bucket.

Mooshrooms can also be milked using bowls to get mushroom stew.

When a small flower is used on a brown mooshroom, the brown mooshroom produces a suspicious stew related to that small flower the next time it is milked with a bowl. Red mooshrooms do not produce suspicious stew. The brown mooshroom returns to producing mushroom stew until fed another small flower. The small flowers produce the suspicious stew with the following effects.

Flower Effect Duration (BE) Duration (JE)
Allium Fire Resistance 2s 4s
Azure Bluet Blindness 6s 8s
Blue Orchid
Dandelion
Saturation 0.3s 0.35s
Cornflower Jump Boost 4s 6s
Lily of the Valley Poison 10s 12s
Oxeye Daisy Regeneration 6s 8s
Poppy Night Vision 4s 5s
Tulips Weakness 7s 9s
Wither Rose Wither 6s 8s

Sounds[]

Mooshrooms use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
Cow moos[1] Friendly Creatures Randomly entity.cow.ambient[1] subtitles.entity.cow.ambient[1] ? ? 16
Cow dies[1] Friendly Creatures When a mooshroom dies entity.cow.death[1] subtitles.entity.cow.death[1] ? ? 16
Cow hurts[1] Friendly Creatures When a mooshroom is damaged entity.cow.hurt[1] subtitles.entity.cow.hurt[1] ? ? 16
Cow gets milked[1] Friendly Creatures When a mooshroom is milked entity.cow.milk[1] subtitles.entity.cow.milk[1] ? ? 16
Footsteps Friendly Creatures While a mooshroom is walking entity.cow.step[1] subtitles.block.generic.footsteps ? ? 16
Mooshroom transforms Friendly Creatures When a mooshroom is struck by lightning entity.mooshroom.convert subtitles.entity.mooshroom.convert 0.75 ? 16
Mooshroom eats Friendly Creatures When a brown mooshroom is fed a flower entity.mooshroom.eat subtitles.entity.mooshroom.eat ?, 1, ? 0.95, ?, 1.05 16
Mooshroom gets milked Friendly Creatures When a mooshroom is milked with a bowl entity.mooshroom.milk subtitles.entity.mooshroom.milk ?, 1, ? 0.9, ?, 1.1 16
Mooshroom gets milked suspiciously Friendly Creatures When a brown mooshroom is milked with a bowl after being fed a flower entity.mooshroom.suspicious_milk subtitles.entity.mooshroom.suspicious_milk ?, 1, ? 0.9, ?, 1.1 16
Shears click Friendly Creatures When a mooshroom is sheared entity.mooshroom.shear subtitles.item.shear ? ? 16

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierTranslation key
Mooshroom mooshroom entity.minecraft.mooshroom

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
Mooshroom mooshroom 16 entity.mooshroom.name

Entity data[]

Mooshrooms have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Java Edition:

  • Entity data
    •  EffectDuration: Optional. An integer indicating the duration of the status effect the brown mooshroom may give to a suspicious stew.
    •  EffectId: Optional. A byte indicating the type of the status effect the brown mooshroom may give to a suspicious stew.
    •  Type: ID of the mooshroom's type.

Mooshroom type

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements[]

IconAchievementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)Gamerscore earnedTrophy type (PS4)
PS4Other
Repopulation Breed two cows with wheat. Breed two cows or two mooshrooms. 15G Bronze

Advancements[]

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
How do you tame a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?
The Parrots and the Bats
Breed two animals together Husbandry Breed a pair of any of these 23 mobs:

  • Axolotl
  • Bee
  • Cat
  • Chicken
  • Cow
  • Donkey
  • Fox
  • Frog
  • Goat
  • Hoglin
  • Horse
  • Llama
  • Mooshroom
  • Mule
  • Ocelot
  • Panda
  • Pig
  • Rabbit
  • Sheep
  • Strider
  • Trader Llama
  • Turtle
  • Wolf

A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.
husbandry/breed_an_animal
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Two by Two
Breed all the animals! The Parrots and the Bats Breed a pair of each of these 22 mobs:

  • Axolotl
  • Bee
  • Cat
  • Chicken
  • Cow
  • Donkey
  • Fox
  • Frog
  • Goat
  • Hoglin
  • Horse
  • Llama
  • Mooshroom
  • Mule
  • Ocelot
  • Panda
  • Pig
  • Rabbit
  • Sheep
  • Strider
  • Turtle
  • Wolf

A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.
husbandry/bred_all_animals

History[]

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The specific instructions are: Did the mushrooms previously have shading before 1.8?

Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease
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Added mooshrooms.
They cannot be milked with a bucket like regular cows can. Right clicking on a mooshroom with more than one bowl equipped turns the whole stack into just one bowl of mushroom stew.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2Breeding a cow with a mooshroom may result in either, chosen randomly. The offspring may be more likely to be the kind the player gave wheat to first, similarly to sheep.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3
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The mooshroom's horns have been moved.
The mooshroom udder's model is changed, but the texture isn't changed to match the new model, resulting in the broken udder glitch.[2]
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Added baby mooshrooms.
Mooshrooms can now be bred with wheat.
1.2.112w07aMooshrooms can no longer breed with cows.
12w07bMooshrooms have a new AI.
1.4.212w38aAdded new step, hurt, and idle sounds for mooshroom.
1.814w02aBaby mooshroom growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
14w05bMooshroom's mushrooms are no longer visible when they have the Invisibility effect.
14w26bMooshrooms now require mycelium, not grass, for random spawning and spawning from mob spawners.
1.8.2pre5Fixed mooshroom udder texture not displaying correctly.
Fixed mooshrooms incorrectly displaying custom mushroom models.
1.915w39aMooshrooms are now slightly taller (1.4 blocks tall rather than 1.3, with babies 0.7 blocks tall rather than 0.65).
1.1116w32aThe entity ID of the mooshroom has now been changed from MushroomCow to mooshroom.
MINECON Earth 2018The Mojang panel debates whether to add brown mooshrooms.
1.1418w43a
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The textures of the mooshroom and baby mooshroom have been changed.
19w08a
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Added brown mooshroom variant, which spawn when a regular mooshroom is struck by lightning.
Brown mooshrooms give the player suspicious stew when fed a flower.
Breeding two red mooshrooms has 1⁄1024 to spawn a brown baby variant, and vice versa.
1.1519w39a
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How do you tame a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?
The textures of the mushrooms on mooshrooms have been flipped.
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The models of the baby mooshrooms have been changed.
1.1620w15aMooshrooms can now be sheared by dispensers.
Pre-release 1It's now possible to get stew from mooshrooms in creative mode.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0build 1
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How do you tame a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?
Added mooshrooms and their baby variant.
v0.14.0build 1Baby zombie jockeys can now mount mooshrooms when trying to attack players, villagers, or golems.
v0.15.0build 1Baby husks can now mount mooshrooms.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0The entity ID of the mooshroom has now been changed from mushroomcow to mooshroom.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3
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The textures of the mooshroom and baby mooshroom have been changed.
1.13.0beta 1.13.0.9
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How do you tame a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?
Added brown mooshrooms.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7CU1 1.0 Patch 11.0.1
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How do you tame a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?
Added mooshrooms and baby mooshrooms.
Mooshrooms can be bred using wheat.
TU14 1.04 Using a mooshroom spawn egg, baby mooshrooms can now be spawned by using
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on an adult mooshroom.
TU31CU19 1.22 Patch 3Baby mooshroom growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
The sounds of mooshrooms have been updated.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0
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Added mooshrooms.
  • How do you tame a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?

    The first image released of the mooshroom.

  • How do you tame a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?

    Glitched mooshroom at 19w38a

  • How do you tame a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?

    Glitched brown mushrooms at 19w38a

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Mooshroom" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

How do you tame a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?

The moobloom in Minecraft Earth.

  • Mooshrooms are the fourth mob in the game that are directly affected by being struck by lightning.
  • In Minecraft Earth, there was a buttercup-covered variant of mooshrooms known as "mooblooms".[3] This variant was also part of the Minecraft Live 2020 Mob Vote. It came last and there are currently no plans to add it to the game.

Gallery[]

Screenshots[]

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    A dying mooshroom mob.

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    A calf.

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    A few mooshrooms next to a lake.

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    A mooshroom in a minecart.

  • How do you tame a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?

    Adult and baby forms of the red and brown mooshrooms.

In other media[]

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  • How do you tame a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?

    Baby mooshroom plush made by JINX.

  • Cordyceps fungi

References[]

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m The mooshroom reuses many of the cow's sound events instead of having its own, resulting in these unintuitive subtitles - see MC-98316
  2. MC-49704
  3. "Mooblooms! A new mob variant in Minecraft Earth!" – @jorax79 on Twitter, July 17, 2019

What do you feed a Mooshroom cow in Minecraft?

Like regular cows, mooshrooms will follow players holding wheat. If two mooshrooms close to each other are fed wheat, they will breed to make a baby mooshroom. Baby mooshrooms do not have mushrooms on their backs, and they can be fed wheat to grow more quickly.

How do you tame a cow in Minecraft?

Equip the harvested wheat in a Hotbar and take them to the cows to approach them. The cow follows you as long as you have wheat in your hand. Now, you will see the “Feed” icon, so click on it to feed the cow and tame it.