Talk:Mushroom Grass Seeds/@comment-72.190.44.47-20111229174029

To clear up any confusion: 1) Mushrooms can only be grown underground. You will know you are deep enough when a) the music changes, b) the background changes to the rocky one, and c) the depth meter reaches 0 ft. 2) They must be planted in mud. 3) No water is needed. 4) Harvesting can be done with an axe, pickaxe, or weapon. May be able to do with magic as well, but I have not personally tested it. 5) Supposedly, the mushrooms will grow faster and spread more quickly if there is no light. I have not tested this. 6) You can chop down mushroom trees with your axe. 7) You can harvest seeds from mushroom trees or regular glowing mushrooms, but they are very rare. 8) Mushroom trees can grow on a farm, but they must have a large number of blocks above them so that they have room to grow - they will not grow if they can't reach maturity and still have their tops underground.

Note: Before patch 1.1.1, you could not have another kind of block touching your mud block, or the grass would not spread. Therefore, you layered 2 layers of mud around the outside edges of your farm. I have not tested this since 1.1.1.

Farm design option: Layer 2 blocks deep of mud around your farm. Drop to the bottom and put a single layer of mud over your head, adding wood platforms to the side on both sides 2 wide for easy navigation. Leave one block open above that, and the another layer of mud. Then repeat that once more, so you have 3 single rows of mud with platforms on each end. Stand on your top layer, and add another layer above your head and repeat the above "pattern" of mud. To harvest, you will simply take a long reaching weapon and keep swinging as you run down the rows you fit through. I recommend Muramasa for the click and hold swinging.