The only exceptions are mycelium, podzol, and nylium, which allow you to place mushrooms in any light level without them popping off.
How to place mushrooms in Minecraft without them breaking
If the light level is 13 or higher, the mushroom will pop off and drop as an item within seconds. This is why mushrooms you try to place on a sunny lawn will always break. The key exceptions are mycelium, podzol, and nylium, these blocks override the light restriction entirely, letting you place mushrooms in broad daylight or torch-lit rooms. Always check the light level with the F3 debug screen (Java Edition) or by observing whether the mushroom stays planted after a few seconds.
Where to find mushrooms in your world
Mushrooms spawn naturally in dark caves, under trees in swamp biomes, and on the surface of mushroom field biomes where mycelium covers the ground. In the Nether, red and brown mushrooms grow on netherrack and nylium blocks. When you collect mushrooms for a farm, prioritize gathering mycelium, podzol, or nylium blocks with a Silk Touch pickaxe, these are the blocks that let you place mushrooms in any light. Without them, you will need to build a dark room to keep your mushrooms alive. If you also want to grow apples in Minecraft, gather oak or dark oak saplings while you are out collecting. While gathering those saplings, you can also strip wood in Minecraft to turn the logs into decorative building blocks.
How to grow huge mushrooms with bonemeal
Each use of bonemeal has a chance to trigger growth; if the space is too tight or the light is too high, the bonemeal will have no effect. Huge mushrooms yield many mushroom blocks when broken, making them ideal for decoration or bulk farming.
How to make mushrooms spread and build a farm
Small mushrooms spread slowly over time to adjacent valid blocks if there are fewer than five mushrooms of the same type within a 9x9x3 area around the original mushroom. This means you can build a sustainable farm by placing one or two mushrooms on mycelium or podzol in a dark room, then waiting for them to spread to nearby blocks. To harvest sustainably, break only the mushrooms that have spread, leaving at least one mushroom of each type to continue the process. A 9x9x3 area of mycelium with a single mushroom can eventually fill with mushrooms without any bonemeal, giving you a renewable food source and material for mushroom stew.
