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some how the brown mushroom is giving light in dark places. evry time i try to take a screenshot it dosen't show. does anybody have a explanation for this?. if so explain

Brown Mushrooms give off a light level of 1.

Quote from Crininson

Brown Mushrooms give off a light level of 1.

i wonder. why does it do that. is there any reason for it.

That's the way they programmed it. Why? You'd have to ask the dev team that.

That's just the way it is, like a glowing mushroom.

I figured it's so you could find them in the dark? I dunno

I would guess the mushrooms need a light level of 1 to spread. Dark cave with no light would mean no mushroom growth, unless the mushrooms put off just enough light to allow growth on the next block...

Quote from Shades747

I would guess the mushrooms need a light level of 1 to spread. Dark cave with no light would mean no mushroom growth, unless the mushrooms put off just enough light to allow growth on the next block...

I agree. This is probably the rationale for it... and it's kind of cool when you stumble across a large group of them while exploring a new cave.

It would be a neat way to light passages...at short distance in between torches. For example if you had a 3x3 passage mine out the middle block on the wall plant some shrooms and wait... Or just gather a ton of mushrooms....I'm gonna try that.

Too bad you can't eat the red an white spotted one. It could take away a heart but change the colors of everything and maybe make vision really wobbly for a minute or so.

No real added gameplay value...just something kinda neat and funny to unsuspecting players their first time eating one.