All Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen Locations

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How To Find Mind Flayer Parasite Specimens In Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3)Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen Locations In Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3)Baldur’s Gate 3

Mind Flayer Parasite Specimens are central to unlocking the player’s Illithid Powers in Baldur’s Gate 3. Many players will seek to resist the power of the parasite trapped within their minds and wish to remove it before they transform into a brutal Mind Flayer. Others, however, will want to collect as many Mind Flayer Parasite Specimens as possible.

A Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen can only be collected from the corpses of those infected with the same tadpole-like parasite as the player in Baldur’s Gate 3. Players can either loot these tadpoles from corpses or find jars scattered around the world. Luckily, players will know when they get close to a Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen.

How To Find Mind Flayer Parasite Specimens In Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3)

Due to the size of Baldur’s Gate 3, there isn’t a definitive list of every potential Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen in the world. However, the game has a simple trick that lets players know when they are close to one. It involves the Guardian, the second character player’s design during character creation. The Guardian appears in the player’s dreams after they use their Illithid Powers and offers to help.

After dreaming of the Guardian, they will start helping the player in their search for more parasites. When players get close to a Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen in Baldur’s Gate 3, whether in a jar or still in a living being’s head, the Guardian will speak telepathically to the player and inform them that a parasite is nearby. When players hear the Guardian, they should carefully examine their surroundings for a jar or an NPC to fight.

Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen Locations In Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3)

A goblin on the left, with green skin and blueish black hair, face covered in warpaint as they grimace upward. On the right is a mind flayer, red eyes on a tentacled face looking directly at the camera.

Technically, players can get Mind Flayer Parasite Specimens from many of their companions in Baldur’s Gate 3, including Shadowheart and Wyll. Killing them would erase a potential companion from the campaign, but if players want to collect every parasite, they can. The better way to collect Mind Flayer Parasite Specimens is to check out the following locations.

Location	Source	Details
Emerald Grove	Drow Corpse	This is a jarred Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen found on a table next to a dissected drow in the Enclave Library. Players should only grab it when Nettie isn’t looking.
Forest west of Emerald Grove	Edowin	While traveling west of Emerald Grove, players can find Absolute cultists gathering around a dying True Soul named Edowin. Players can get his parasite after he dies.
Druid Grove	Brynna’s Friend	Brynna can be found over the corpse of a dead friend who carries a Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen in his head.
Risen Road	Flind the Gnoll Warlord	This Gnoll Warlord can be found with a group of other Gnolls and can be used to take care of his friends before players kill him and harvest his parasite.
Shattered Sanctum	Priestess Gut	This priestess is one of three goblin leaders players are hired to take out to free Halsin. She is first found in the main hall of Shattered Sanctum.
Shattered Sanctum	Dror Ragzlin	Dror Ragzlin is the second goblin leader who can be found in the northernmost portion of Shattered Sanctum.
Shattered Sanctum	Minthara	Minthara is the third goblin leader and a potential companion if players don’t want her parasite and are willing to get violent. She can be found in the northeast room of Shattered Sanctum.
Grymforge	True Soul Nere	Arriving in Grymforge will give players a choice to either kill or side with True Soul Nere. Whether they kill Nere now or betray him later, he has a Mind Slayer Parasite Specimen to collect after death.
Grymforge	True Soul Nere	If players side with Nere and kill the slaces and slavemasters, he will give players the Gift of the Absolute, which counts as a Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen.
Last Light Inn	Flaming Fist Marcus	When Marcus attacks Last Light Inn, players can kill him and take his parasite.
Moonrise Towers	Docks	There are two Mind Flayer Paradite Specimens on a boat docked northwest of the Rivington waypoint when players arrive at Moonrise Towers. This boat moves to the smuggler’s dock in Act 3.
Moonrise Towers	Linsella	Linsella is found in the kitchen. The player can either kill Linsella personally or cut her connection to her gnoll servants so they turn on her.
Moonrise Towers	Zealot Malik	Players can get Zealot Malik’s parasite if they kill him after letting Nightsong go.
Moonrise Towers	Adept Merim	Adept Merim appears with Zealot Malik. Her parasite can be collected in the same way as Zealot Malik’s.
Moonrise Towers	Disciple Z’rell	Disciple Z’rell is part of the collection of enemies who try to protect Ketherlic Thorm.
Moonrise Towers	Zealot Krizt	Zealot Krizt is in the Oubliette of the Moonrise Towers prison within the hole where people dump bodies.
Mind Flayer Colony	Brine Pool	If players pass a Perception Skill Check on a brine pool in the same room as Zariel’s Asset.
Lower City	Manip Edenosa	While players explore Bloomridge Park may have to fight a group of Bhaal cultists. Afterward, a Flaming Fist named Manip Edenosa, controlled by a parasite, will speak to the player and die. Players can get the Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen after the conversation ends.
Crèche Y’llek	Infirmary	There are three Mind Flayer Parasite Specimens in the infirmary of Crèche Y’llek while players hunt for the Githyanki egg for Lady Esther.
Lower City	The Blushing Mermaid	When players enter the cellar of the Blushing Mermaid during the quest “Save Vanra,” they can find a jar with a Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen next to some branches on a wooden platform.
Lower City	Steel Watch Foundry	Before players enter the control room of the foundry, they should check the back of the chamber, where a jar with a Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen sits on a desk.

There are likely more Mind Flayer Parasite Specimens hidden within Baldur’s Gate 3. However, with this list, players can collect two dozen parasites to increase their Illithid Powers.