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Mushroom DIY Crafting Recipes & How To Get Them [2022]

Mushrooms are a special autumn seasonal crafting material in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH)! Learn how to get Mushrooms on your island and all of the Mush & Forest Set items you can craft with them in this guide.

How to Find & Get Mushrooms

To find and collect Mushrooms in Animal Crossing: New Horizons naturally, you’ll need to be playing during the month of November in the Northern Hemisphere or month of May in the Southern Hemisphere.

There are no specific dates beyond that as you can find Mushrooms throughout the entire month. Maple Leaves are also available for a period of 10 days towards the end of the month and offer a completely separate set of Maple Leaf DIY Crafting recipes.

Five different types of Mushroom items can be found to hunt down during the month and they are found in different locations depending on the type — here’s a complete list of all Mushrooms below including sell prices:

• Flat Mushroom (Sell Price: 200 Bells)
• Rare Mushroom (Sell Price: 16,000 Bells)
• Round Mushroom (Sell Price: 200 Bells)
• Skinny Mushroom (Sell Price: 300 Bells)
• Elegant Mushroom (Sell Price: 10,000 Bells)

Where To Find Thin, Round, Flat, Elegant Mushrooms

You can find Thin, Round, Flat, and Elegant Mushrooms randomly spawned on the ground during the season near both regular trees and cedar trees. Each day at 5AM local time on your island, a fresh new batch should appear around your trees.

The rarest and most valuable of these is the Elegant Mushroom selling for 10,000 Bells each, which is used in the Forest Wall and Mush Wall crafting recipes. You should always pick these up solely for selling purposes, even if you have the crafted items already.

Where To Find Rare Mushrooms

Unlike the other types of Mushrooms that can be found plainly visible on the ground near your trees, the Rare Mushrooms are hidden out of sight. You can find them buried in the ground around trees marked by X star spots, just like Fossils! If you spot one, simply take out your Shovel and dig it up.

We’ve heard some reports that having a 5 Star Island rating with Isabelle at Resident Services may increase your chances of finding Rare Mushrooms on your island, but that’s unconfirmed. That being said, they can definitely be found on islands less than 5 Stars too.

To be honest, Rare Mushrooms aren’t particularly important anyway for crafting items. There’s only a single DIY Crafting Recipe (Forest Flooring) that uses them and only one Rare Mushroom is required to craft the item. That being said, they do sell for a generous 16,000 Bells each and are worth your while for that reason alone.

How to Get Mushrooms Outside November / May

If you’d like to craft items that require Mushrooms and your island isn’t currently in season for them to appear, you can travel to another player’s island that is and catch them there. Alternatively, you may adjust the date and time on your Nintendo Switch to November in the Northern Hemisphere or May in the Southern Hemisphere.

The Mushrooms crafting materials can also be kept in your house storage or other places just like any other item, so you can trade with players online outside of the season who have stockpiled the resource.

Mushroom Item DIY Crafting Recipes List

There are 12 different Autumn themed items you can exclusively craft with Mushroom seasonal materials in Animal Crossing: New Horizons including furniture, wallpaper, flooring, accessories, and more.

The complete list below includes all of these Mushroom related items and their DIY Crafting recipes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons with photos of each item, the crafting materials you need to make them, and how to unlock the recipes.

Additionally, a number of Cooking recipes that use Mushrooms as ingredients were added in Version 2.0 during late 2021, but these recipes are simply learned from random villagers. Unfortunately, no new regular crafting recipes have been added in updates since 2020.

How to Craft Forest Flooring

The following crafting materials below are required to craft the Forest Flooring:

• 1 Rare Mushroom
• 2 Round Mushroom
• 2 Skinny Mushroom
• 2 Flat Mushroom
• 10 Clump of Weeds

How to Craft Forest Wall

The following crafting materials below are required to craft the Forest Wall:

• 2 Elegant Mushroom
• 2 Round Mushroom
• 2 Skinny Mushroom
• 2 Flat Mushroom
• 10 Wood

How to Craft Mush Lamp

The following crafting materials below are required to craft the Mush Lamp:

• 1 Skinny Mushroom
• 5 Clay

How to Craft Mush Log

The following crafting materials below are required to craft the Mush Log:

• 2 Skinny Mushroom
• 1 Log Stool (4 Hardwood)

How to Craft Mush Low Stool

The following crafting materials below are required to craft the Mush Low Stool:

• 2 Round Mushroom

How to Craft Mush Parasol

The following crafting materials below are required to craft the Mush Parasol:

• 3 Flat Mushroom

How to Craft Mush Partition

The following crafting materials below are required to craft the Mush Partition:

• 3 Skinny Mushroom

How to Craft Mush Table

The following crafting materials below are required to craft the Mush Table:

• 2 Flat Mushroom
• 6 Wood

How to Craft Mush Umbrella

The following crafting materials below are required to craft the Mush Umbrella:

• 3 Flat Mushroom

How to Craft Mush Wall

The following crafting materials below are required to craft the Mush Wall:

• 1 Elegant Mushroom
• 1 Round Mushroom
• 1 Skinny Mushroom
• 1 Flat Mushroom

How to Craft Mushroom Wand

The following crafting materials below are required to craft the Mushroom Wand:

• 3 Skinny Mushroom
• 3 Star Fragment

How to Craft Mushroom Wreath

The following crafting materials below are required to craft the Mushroom Wreath:

• 10 Tree Branch
• 1 Round Mushroom
• 1 Skinny Mushroom
• 1 Flat Mushroom

Total Materials Needed To Craft All Mushroom Items

Looking to craft the entire Mush Set of items with Mushrooms? In the handy table below, you can find a complete summary of how many Mushrooms and other crafting materials are needed to craft every single item listed above.

How to Get & Learn Mushroom DIY Recipes

There are two ways you can find and get new Mushroom DIY Crafting Recipes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but unfortunately it’s mostly dependent on luck taking time and patience.

Morning Isabelle Announcement

Near the beginning of the Mushroom season in November for Northern Hemisphere and May in Southern Hemisphere, you should hear from Isabelle in the morning announcements about the new seasonal crafting material and recipes. If you haven’t already learned the Mushroom Wreath DIY Crafting recipe, she’ll send it to your NookPhone during the announcements.

There’s been a lot of confusion in the community about when or how this morning announcement from Isabelle occurs, but from our knowledge so far, it can only happen when you have no other notable announcements.

In other words, the game seems to use the Mushroom recipe announcement as a filler item of sorts when there’s nothing else for Isabelle to talk about! So whenever you have no villagers moving in, buildings opening, or other notable events for her to discuss, you should get the announcement.

Flying Balloon Presents

During the Mushroom season, all Balloon Presents flying in the sky over your island have a chance of dropping one of the 12 different Mushroom DIY Crafting recipes! Just pull out a Slingshot and shoot away when you see one.

Unfortunately, there’s no concrete way to control exactly what you’ll get from balloon presents, so you’ll need to just keep shooting them down until you get lucky. Duplicate crafting recipes are easily possible too and should be expected, so we recommend trying to make trades with friends to complete the collection faster. You may be able to sell any duplicates for a hefty amount online too.

We do have some general tips for how you can most effectively hunt and farm balloon presents though by taking advantage of a few specific mechanics. And for the laziest farming method, check out our Farm DIY Recipe Balloons Easy Using Jail Bars Wall Trick guide here!

New Balloons can spawn every 5 minutes at times ending in a ‘4’ or ‘9’. For example, a balloon could appear at 4:19pm or 4:24pm. By the time it actually reaches your beach though, the time will likely be closer to 4:20pm or 4:45pm.

A Balloon won’t always spawn on these minutes — it’s a random chance as to whether one will actually appear every time. Expect some spawn times to be duds with nothing to see.

The wind direction that Balloons fly in from changes throughout the day. Once you spot the direction that one Balloon flies into your island from, you can expect all Balloons to come from that side for quite some time. Then around 6pm-7pm in the evening, the direction will flip to the opposite.

Walk up and down your beach around spawn time. Now that you have an idea of the current wind direction and when Balloons can spawn, it’s possible to find them with relative ease by pacing up and down the side of your beach where the wind is blowing from when it’s near the possible spawn times ending in ‘4’ and ‘9’.

Turn up your volume and listen carefully. When a Balloon is flying nearby you, a relatively obvious wind sound plays to let you know. This is great when multitasking.

Not From Villagers or Bottles

A common misconception in the Animal Crossing community is that seasonal crafting recipes that can learned by finding villagers crafting in their homes or in message bottles on the beach.

While many other DIY Crafting recipes can be found in this manner, it is not the case for seasonal recipes like the Mushroom items. You’ll need to keep shooting down those pesky balloons for your best chance at hunting them down.

Thanks to Mogyay, Laudine, and Murray for contributing photos to this guide! If you have any suggestions or spot any errors, please help us out in the comments below so we can address them.