Animal Crossing: New Horizons seasonal mushroom DIY recipe list

Make some cute mushroom stuff

By Julia Lee@hardykiwis May 1, 2020, 1:57pm EDT

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Two Animal Crossing characters sit around a bunch of mushroom furniture

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Part of Animal Crossing: New Horizons guides

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, mushrooms appear around your trees during the fall.

Northern Hemisphere players will find mushrooms for the entire month of November and Southern Hemisphere players will spot the fungus throughout May.

You can only find mushroom-based recipes during this time period. You’ll have to shoot down balloons with your Slingshot to find them. If you don’t grab all the recipes before the mushrooms stop growing, you’ll have to wait until next year, time travel, or ask your buddies to help you craft.

The mushrooms you’ll need for the recipes will spawn around Hardwood Trees. Most will be visible on the ground, but Rare Mushrooms will appear underground around these trees, indicated with the usual star-shaped digging spot.

You can check out a list of the items you can get below, along with the recipes you need to make them.

Mush Wall

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

Forest Flooring

Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Polygon — The recipe for a Forest Flooring

1 Rare Mushroom
2 Round Mushrooms
2 Skinny Mushrooms
2 Flat Mushrooms
10 Weeds

Forest Wall

2 Elegant Mushrooms
2 Round Mushrooms
2 Skinny Mushrooms
2 Flat Mushrooms
10 Wood

Mush Lamp

1 Skinny Mushroom
5 Clay

Mush Low Stool

2 Round Mushrooms

Mush Parasol

3 Flat Mushrooms

Mush Partition

3 Skinny Mushrooms

Mush Table

2 Flat Mushrooms
6 Wood

Mush Umbrella

3 Flat Mushrooms

Mushroom Wand

3 Skinny Mushrooms
3 Star Fragments

Mushroom Wreath

Isabelle will give you this DIY recipe during her morning announcements, but it’s possible to shoot this recipe down from a balloon as well.

10 Tree Branches
1 Round Mushroom
1 Skinny Mushroom
1 Flat Mushroom

Mush Log

2 Skinny Mushrooms
1 Log Stool

There are many other seasonal recipes to unlock, depending on the season:

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