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9	A common feature BeneathTheEarth, in the MouseWorld and in the EnchantedForest alike, it is not uncommon in fantasy settings to see people making their homes in hollowed-out mushrooms of various sorts. More often than not, this will happen in one of two ways, although exceptions and overlap of course exist:
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11	Sometimes, this kind of residence will be made out of normal-sized mushrooms and will be the home of choice for diminutive humanoids such as [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnomes]], [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairies]], [[OurPixiesAreDifferent pixies]] and other such {{Lilliputians}}. These Mushroom Houses will typically look like toadstools with stout stems fitted with doorways and windows, and with the inside furnished to provide its inhabitant a comfortable home. The mushroom's cap -- which will often, but not always, be red with white spots in resemblance to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria fly agaric]] -- may or may not be fitted with windows of its own. This sort of house is a common feature of the more magically inclined {{Mouse World}}s.
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13	The other common variant involves normal-sized people living in giant-sized mushrooms instead. These will typically serve as a much more alien variant of the ArborealAbode, highlighting the alien, magical or generally otherworldly and unusual nature of the place they're found in. This type may sometimes be paired with intelligent [[MushroomMan mushroom people]].
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15	See also ArborealAbode, for the variant of this trope as applied to plants, and FungusHumongous, for when normal-sized people live in house-sized mushrooms.
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22	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': Planet Guling has a large mushroom building with a telescope on the top.
23	* ''Animation/NanaMoon'': There is a certain section of Moon Haven near a forest that has numerous giant mushrooms fashioned into houses.
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27	* ''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.
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31	* ''Franchise/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.
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35	* ''VideoGame/IceAndFireMinecraft'': Pixie villages consist of blocks resembling large red or brown mushrooms carved out to serve as tiny houses, alongside logs modified for the same purpose.
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39	* ''Literature/TheLightFantastic'': While traveling through [[EnchantedForest 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".
40	* ''Literature/OctoberDaye'': Pixies can and do set up housekeeping in the real world wherever they can. However, inside Faerie, they live in mushrooms, many of which are puffballs that give off knockout spores as a defense mechanism.
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44	* ''Series/KabouterPlop'' revolves around a gnome called Plop who lives in a mushroom with a red cap with white spots. The series mostly takes place in and around this mushroom, in which Plop keeps an inn open in which his friends can come along to have a glass of milk.
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48	* ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'': [[OurKoboldsAreDifferent Kobolds]] who live away from humanoid civilization are often found living inside giant mushrooms.
49	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
50	** The myconids are a race of [[MushroomMan Mushroom People]] from the Underdark who cultivate a wide variety of fungi, including large ones that they sometimes use as dwellings.
51	** The Abyssal realm of the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Demon Queen]] Zuggtmoy is a cavern choked with FesteringFungus and [[FungusHumongous miles-tall mushrooms]] in which she has carved her palace.
52	** ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine Issue #56 adventure "The Bigger They Are...": Deep in a forest, the PlayerCharacters encounter two huge fungi, one fifteen feet 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.
53	** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': Eleven miles BeneathTheEarth, the Underdark "Garden City" of Fluvenilstra is partly built into the giant mushrooms and other magically enhanced plants that dominate the local landscape. It also has relatively large MushroomMan, PlantPerson, and {{Planimal}} populations.
54	** ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'': Psilofyr, the god of the [[MushroomMan myconids]], lives within a giant hollowed-out mushroom at the center of his realm in Mechanus.
55	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Gerbies, a type of fairy resembling anthropomorphic crosses of rodents and lizards, live in houses made from hollowed-out mushrooms.
56	* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'': Towershrooms are gigantic mushrooms native to England and northwestern Europe, notable for having hollow stems and for growing to about the size of a house. Naturally, this leads to people often retrofitting them into dwellings.
57	* ''TabletopGame/WorldTreeRPG'': Dullogs are large, dome-like mushrooms that grow up to a few hundred feet around and forty high. Their insides are spongelike networks of interconnected chambers, which people -- usually non-primes, as most prime species have better options -- often use as living spaces. While windows can be cut into the outer cells to let in light, people living further in depend on the fact that dullog flesh glows orange when wet.
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61	* Ride/{{Efteling}}: The Fairytale Forest features a gnome village in which all of the houses are mushroom-shaped.
62	* ''Plopsaland De Panne'' has a boat ride based on the popular children's show ''Series/KabouterPlop'' (see above) in which visitors enter the gnome forest from the show where all gnomes live in mushrooms.
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66	* ''VideoGame/TheCrystalKey'': The Nehli people of Meribah live build their houses from enormous mushrooms that grow on the branches of enormous Monolith Trees.
67	* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': If you're in a pinch and need a quick shelter, a red mushroom and some bone meal to grow it will come in handy, since it produces a giant mushroom that you can then use as an impromptu home for the night.
68	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
69	** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'': 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 and advance through the questline, you eventually grow your own giant mushroom to live in, Tel Uvirith.
70	** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': The ''Dragonborn'' DLC allows you to visit Tel Mithryn, one of the last surviving mushroom strongholds of a Telvanni noble, located on the isle of Solstheim.
71	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': The [[MushroomMan mushroom-like Toads]] have lived in Mushroom Houses since ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''. In the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games, Toad Town consists entirely of buildings of this sort.
72	* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': It's possible to build houses out of glowing mushrooms, and doing so is required in order to summon [[MushroomMan the Truffle]].
73	* ''VideoGame/UruAgesBeyondMyst'': A Mushroom ''Factory'' is a major feature of one of the Ages.
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77	* ''Webcomic/TheDreamlandChronicles'': The Fairy village is built out of mushrooms, [[FungusHumongous some of which are large enough to be apartment buildings]].
78	* ''Webcomic/{{Jailbreak}}'': Once in the forest, the first elf to be summoned shacks up in a comfortable bungalow with a roof shaped like a spotted mushroom cap.
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82	* ''WebVideo/{{Stampylongnose}}'': Early in Stampy's ''Quest'' series, he and Squid build houses in [[FungusHumongous giant mushrooms]].
83	* ''WebVideo/TheUnexpectables'': Taken to extremes in the Underdark, where a single colossal mushroom dominates the ecology of the cave system and houses an entire civilization of svirfneblin (subterranean gnomes) in its gills.
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87	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': Like in the games that inspired the show, the [[MushroomMan Toads]] 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.
88	* ''WesternAnimation/BenAndHollysLittleKingdom'' features a village of fairies living in toadstools.
89	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFruitties'': Some of the houses in Fruittie Village are big mushrooms.
90	* ''Series/KabouterPlop'' (''Plop the Gnome''), a popular Belgian children's show created by Creator/Studio100, focuses on four (later six) small gnomes that live inside mushroom houses.
91	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E16ItAintEasyBeingBreezies "It Ain't Easy Being Breezies"]], the magically hidden home of the [[OurFairiesAreDifferent breezies]] is filled with mushrooms of this sort, with caps with glowing blue undersides. Unusually, however, the homes don't seem to be in the stems themselves. Instead, the tall, thin stems only have a doorway at their base, while multiple windows dot the broad caps high in the air.
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95	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_House The Mushroom House]] in Perinton, New York, is about as close as you're going to get to living in a mushroom in real life. It's a one-story house in the woods made up of circular rooms, each with windows around its rim and covered with a domed roof with a blunt spike in its center. The house is built jutting out over a slope, and several of the round platforms are suspended in the air, each supported by a narrow pillar built to resemble a stem. It's supposed to be based on umbrella-shaped flowers like Queen Anne's Lace, but the final effect is far more reminiscent of mushrooms.
96	* Decorative mushroom houses are fairly popular in modern fairy gardens (small-scale outdoor features built along fairytale themes), especially when paired with gnomes.
97	* Several of the Mushroom Houses of Charlevoix are organically shaped stone structures with curved cedar-shake roofs, giving them a mushroom-like appearance and their colloquial name.
98	* Some species of fly larvae live in, and feed upon, the stems and gills of mushrooms.
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