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Tags: <minecraft-java-edition>
Title: How do I find mushroom biomes?
Question: Minecraft's mushroom biome sounds like a pleasant place: Food in abundant supply, and zero hostile mob spawns.  However, in all my time playing, I've never ever found one. Is there a trick to finding them, or do you just have to get lucky?

Answers:
sents: text: It's important to realize that mushroom biomes only spawn as islands in the middle of oceans.
text: So, if you want to look for one in a world that doesn't spawn you in one, you can't go walking to find one, you need to find an ocean, make a boat, and search the ocean for a mushroom island.
text: I can't offer any personal experience of how easy it is to find one by that approach
text: (I've no idea whether most oceans contain one, more than one, or just have a chance of containing one).
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/18830/Theodore Murdock
score: 26
sents: text: I'm afraid you have to get lucky.
text: Your best bet is to start a world with a seed that spawns in a mushroom biome, e.g. lost . ...or swim for a long time until you find one.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/3610/fredley
score: 11
sents: text: Install the planes mod, build a p-51 with a radial engine, and have fun exploring almost faster than the map can load/generate.
text: This should make locating mushroom biomes a lot faster.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/25489/Jakbruce2012
score: 3
sents: text: Well, I'm not bragging, I was really lucky.
text: In my Legit survival world I found a mushroom biome.
text: And here are some of my tips to find them: Scout the Ocean.
text: Make sure that the ocean is big and don't go next to the coast line, just keep the coastline visible in the corner of your eye.
text: Scout all coast lines of your map.
text: Since oceans are pretty much endless, you can walk on the beaches until you find one that is connected to your beach (worked for me) Use a seed with one either near, or in the map near spawn.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/23949/alaskafish
score: 1
sents: text: Mobs cannot spawn on mycelium and the best way to find one is to make a boat and explore out in the middle of nowhere, kind of like finding diamonds.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/25827/jose
score: 1
sents: text: The best "out of game" means I've found for identifying mushroom islands (and any other feature for that matter) is to use the third party tool AMIDST .
text: Before version 1.7.2 mushroom islands were extremely rare.
text: (I haven't explored much in 1.7.2 yet, to know how that has changed.)
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/16398/John
score: 1
sents: text: Not actually a biome location answer:
text: Mycelium spreads on dirt much like grass; if you're playing in SMP with the /give command (or other some other use of a inventory editor), you could give yourself Mycelium and simulate your own biome that way.
text: It wouldn't be a perfect recreation of Mushroom Biome (if you built over a Desert biome, you may not be able to raise huge mushrooms); Mycelium only allows spawning of Mooshrooms, whereas the Biome itself is what causes anti-mob and natural giant mushrooms.
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answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/14438/Broam
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
Make a boat and scout the ocean for a mushroom island. 
Detailed explanation as to how to find the location in question, is offered. Also, there are different recommendations, regarding that matter, such as third party softwares.