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
- 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:
- Cherry-blossom DIY (Spring)
- Young Spring Bamboo DIY
- Summer Shell DIY
- Pine Cone and Acorn DIY (Fall)
- Maple Leaves DIY (Fall)
- Snowflake DIY (Winter)
- Snowboy DIY (Winter)
- Festive season DIY (Summer/Winter)
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