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Quick answer
- Mooshrooms live only on mushroom fields.
- Use a
Bowl for 
Mushroom stew, or a bucket for milk. - Lightning turns red mooshrooms brown. Brown ones make
Suspicious stew.
Mooshrooms are cows covered in mushrooms. They give you free food without ever killing them.
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Where to find them
Red mooshrooms spawn in herds of 4 to 8 on mushroom fields, rare islands out in the ocean. Brown mooshrooms never spawn on their own.
What they give
| Use | You get |
|---|---|
| Bowl | Mushroom stew |
 Bucket | Milk |
 Shears | 5 mushrooms, and it turns into a normal cow |
Careful with shearsShearing a mooshroom turns it into a cow for good.
Brown mooshrooms
- Lightning striking within 4 blocks swaps red to brown, or brown to red.
- Two red mooshrooms have a 1 in 1,024 chance of a brown baby.
Suspicious stew
- Feed a small flower to a brown mooshroom.
- Milk it with a bowl.
- You get suspicious stew with that flower's effect.
Pick your flowerEach flower gives a different effect. Try a few to find the ones you like.
Cheat sheet
- Mushroom fields only
- Bowl = stew, bucket = milk
- Lightning swaps red and brown
- Flower + brown mooshroom = suspicious stew
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