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* ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'': Kobolds who live away from humanoid civilization are often found living inside giant mushrooms.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', the nobles of the [[TheClan Great House]] Telvanni -- a Great House focused on magic and [[TheMagocracy ruled by wizards]] -- reside in magically-grown giant mushrooms in which rooms and corridors are hollowed out, essentially forming giant fungal {{Mage Tower}}s. The commoners live in smaller mushroom houses, the size of a cottage.
** If you join House Telvanni, you are eventually allowed to grow your own giant mushroom to live in, Tel Uvirith.

** ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine issue #56 adventure "The Bigger They Are...". Deep in a forest, the PlayerCharacters encounter two huge fungi, one fifteen high and the other ten feet high. Each has had their insides hollowed out and carved into small rooms by the quickling who lives in them.

* ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'': While traveling through [[TheLostWoods the Forest of Skund]], the protagonists meet Swires, a gnome living inside a mushroom with a red cap with white spots. The mushroom itself is described as belonging to a kind that a shaman they met previously, who habitually consumed hallucinogenic fungi [[MushroomSamba to trigger religious experiences]], would only eat "after tying himself to a rock".

* A Mushroom ''Factory'' is a major feature of one of the Ages in ''VideoGame/UruAgesBeyondMyst''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFruitties'', some of the houses in Fruittie Village are big mushrooms.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'': The eponymous tiny blue humanoids live in a hidden village in the forest made up of mushrooms like this, with stout round stems hollowed out to make houses and tall, colorful caps. Unless they're actually regular if tiny houses built to look like mushrooms, in an in-universe {{invok|edTrope}}ing of this trope.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', the nobles of the [[TheClan Great House]] Telvanni -- a Great House focused on magic and [[TheMagocracy ruled by wizards]] -- reside in magically-grown giant mushrooms in which rooms and corridors are hollowed out, essentially forming giant fungal {{Mage Tower}}s. The commoners live in smaller mushroom houses, the size of a cottage. If you join House Telvanni, you are eventually allowed to grow your own giant mushroom to live in, Tel Uvirith.

* ''TabletopGame/MagiNation'': The Underneath, a vast region of caverns BeneathTheEarth, is almost entirely covered by vast forest-like growths of [[FungusHumongous gigantic mushrooms with purple stalks and orange, spotted caps]]. For lack of other building materials, the locals often hollow these mushrooms out, fit them with doors and windows and use them as their primary source of housing.

See also ArborealAbode, for the variant of this trope as applied to plants, and FungusHumongous, for when normal-sized people living in house-sized mushrooms.

** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the nobles of the House Telvanni -- a Great House focused on magic and [[TheMagocracy ruled by wizards]] -- reside in magically-grown giant mushrooms in which rooms and corridors are hollowed out, essentially forming giant fungal {{Mage Tower}}s. The commoners live in smaller mushroom houses, the size of a cottage. If you join House Telvanni, you are eventually allowed to grow your own giant mushroom to live in, Tel Uvirith.
** The ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' DLC ''Dragonborn'' allows you to visit Tel Mithryn, one of the last surviving mushroom strongholds of a Telvanni noble, located on the isle of Solstheim.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': Like in the games that inspired the show, the people of the Mushroom Kingdom are shown living in large mushrooms, which in this case are solid brown and with upturned caps with purple gills, with doors in their stems and windows in their caps.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': Like in the games that inspired the show, the people of the Mushroom Kingdom are shown living in large brown mushrooms with purple gills, with doors in their stems and windows in their caps.

** The Myconids are a race of [[MushrooomMan Mushroom People]] from the Underdark who cultivate a wide variety of fungi, including large ones that they sometimes use as dwellings.

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