Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen | Baldurs Gate 3 Wiki

Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen is a Item in Baldur's Gate 3. Some Items can be consumed, granting various effects like buffing the Character or restoring HP, while others can be used to interact with the environment or provide Lore about Baldur's Gate 3 world.

Hanging suspended in murky slime, the living tadpole looks like some hideous cousin to the slug, only gorged and slick with remnants of of brain fluids.

Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen Information

• Weight: 0.2 Kg.
• Value: 100 Gp.
• Rarity: Rare

Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen Location & Where to Find

• One can be found on the dead True Soul Edowin in Forest (X139, Y444), do not resist the tadpole to acquire.
• One can be found by defeating Flind, the Gnoll Warlord (X33, Y594) (Quest Find the Missing Shipment)
• One can be found in the Druid Grove , in Nettie's/Halsin's office on a table. (X-445, Y17)
• One can be found by defeating True Soul Gut (X297, Y-12)
• One can be found by defeating Minthara
• One can be found by defeating Dror Ragzlin
• One can be found by defeating True Soul Nere
• If you side with the Absolute, you can get as many Illithid Powers as "Gift by the Absolute" as you missed by not killing the true soul bosses.
• One can be found by defeating Fist Marcus
• Three can be found in the Infirmary of Crèche Y'llek, next to the Zaith'isk.
• Two (?) at Moonrise Towers' docks, inside Zhentarim Shipping Crate (70, 187) 
• One can be found on Linsella, Moonrise Towers Kitchen
• Three at the front entrance of Moonrise Towers from Disciple Z'Rell, Zealot Malik, and Adept Merim
• One on a body in Oubliette (X:628, Y: -92) named Zealot Krizt *Is not there after Dark Justiciar decision, get beforehand ^[BUG]
• One in a brine pool (X678, Y45) in the Mind Flayer Colony (requires passing perception check)
• One special tadpole (Astral-Touched Tadpole) can be acquired after you helped the Dream Visitor before reaching Baldur's gate. This one awards five specimens worth of upgrades. Requires you to accept his offer of evolution.
• Another special item that gives a charge is the fresh mindflayer's brain in the Abandoned Windmill in Rivington. (X44, Y-38)
• One on a beach northwest of Rivington, on a barrel next to the Stone Lord thugs about to fight the Guild members (Near X-225, Y108)
• A further two on the ship the Stone Lord thugs arrived in, in the big 'Storage' unit. (Near X-212, Y129)
• One from killing Avery Sonshal at Felogyr's Fireworks, Baldur's Gate Lower City.
• Two can be found on Enver Gortash's Parents, the Flymms (X-30, Y-116), Baldur's Gate Lower City.
• One can be found in High Security Safe n6 (near X-715, Y882) in the high-security vault of counting house.
• One can be found sitting on a table on the ground floor of Sorcerous Sundries (X-8, Y-91). 
• One can be found on the second floor of The Lodge. (X-207, Y-87)
• One on a table in the Sanguine Laboratory, entered from Baldur's Gate's Lower City down a hatch (X-92, Y-91)
• Six can be found on a ship protected by Steel Watchers, in front of the Steel Watch Foundry. (X-202 Y-125)
  • One additional one can be found on the body of Churg Elvek, who is preaching next to this ship.
• One can be found in Iron Throne, on the table near Omeluum. (x-45, Y17)
• One can be found on a desk in the Steel Watch Foundry - Lab Level (X-1940, Y447)
• One can be acquired from Manip Edenosa in Bloomridge Park.
• One can be found in the basement of the Blushing Mermaid. (X-2336, Y-120)

Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen Notes & Tips

• There is a functionally similar item called Gift from the Absolute

NOTE: After you accept the use of parasites to acquire powers, these no longer appear as items in your inventory, instead, they become skill points in your Illithid Powers skill tree (hotkey B)