What happens when Dylan eats the Mold?
Eating Delicious Mold advances the optional The Park Resonant quest. Dylan enters a short trance and Zoe helps him regain awareness. Refusing the sample leaves this hunt unfinished rather than opening another route to its boss.
The quest proceeds without a lasting gameplay penalty from the eating choice. This does not make the surrounding Mold enemies or yellow environmental fog harmless. You can leave the Park hunt for later if you only want to continue the story.
Count four locations: Cafe, Pizzeria, Minimart and Gym. The Cafe is already the first sample. Returning to the gate after the other three is a return trip, not a fifth sample hunt.
Start at the Cafe beside the gate
Enter The Park through The Park Checkpoint in northeastern Central. Reveal the Park map and locate New Mold strains? near the central pit. Descend into the hole and look for the small cafe near the organic gate.
- Find the sample on the cafe table beside the DO NOT INGEST warning.
- Use the inspection/report prompt and let the conversation with Zoe finish.
- Check Eat the Cafe Mold, then interact with the sample to eat it.
- After the trance ends, track the three remaining marked objectives.
Find the remaining three samples
The markers point to buildings rather than the exact item inside. Finish the encounter sealing each entrance, then look for the shimmering sample on a table or counter. The last three can be eaten in any order.
| Sample | Area | Look for |
|---|---|---|
| Pizzeria | Southeast Park | A dining-booth table inside the pizza shop. Use the underground route and follow the FBC signs. |
| Minimart | Southwest Park | Urban Fresh Mart’s checkout/counter display. |
| Gym | Northwest Park | The reception desk at the bottom of the large Mold-covered route. |
Pizzeria: take the sewer route
Track Eat the Pizzeria Mold. Enter the underground route toward the Pizzeria, go through the round pipe and follow the yellow FBC arrows on the walls. Fight through to the street by the pizza storefront, clear the enemies locking the shop and inspect the dining booth inside.
Minimart: Urban Fresh Mart
Track Eat the Minimart Mold toward the southwest marker. Fight the nearby Mold enemies to release the entrance. Inside Urban Fresh Mart, look around the checkout counter rather than searching every shelf.
Gym: the desk at the end of the route
Track Eat the Gym Mold toward the northwest. Follow the spore-infested path down to the gym and finish the encounter. The sample is on the reception desk. Let its interaction and trance finish before returning to the pit.
Keep track of the four pieces
This reminder saves in this browser. Confirm each objective in the game as well.
After all four, the task becomes Kill the Resonant Behind the Mold Gate. Return to the organic gate beside the first Cafe sample. Continue with the Collective boss guide for the battle and reward choice. Watch the opened-gate boss encounter · 6:32 ▶
Missing prompt or gate still closed
- Check the version first. Remedy confirms that 1.4.0 could make eating Mold impossible. Hotfix 1.4.1 fixes that quest-blocking issue; install it or a later version before retrying.
- Check the encounter and dialogue. Clear the enemies keeping the storefront closed, finish the radio conversation and approach the sample itself.
- If the Pizzeria has persistent damaging yellow fog: PowerPyx’s launch-period guide suggests attacking the outer windows from outside. You can try this environmental workaround after updating. It is not an official fix or a guaranteed remedy for every missing prompt.
- If the gate stays shut: check all four sample objectives in the quest log, then return to the central pit. Ticking this webpage cannot change your game state.
If the prompt is still missing on an updated build, preserve your save and report the exact platform, version and sample location to Remedy support. Avoid deleting saves to troubleshoot an interaction.
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Walkthrough sources, patch notes & image credits
- PowerPyx video — Four storefront samples, quest updates and gate route; selected 1080p frames.
- PowerPyx walkthrough — Location directions and the older Pizzeria window workaround.
- Method — Four samples and the reason to eat them.
- GamesRadar+ — Eating-choice consequences; its sample count is not used here.
- Remedy hotfix 1.4.1 — Official fix for the 1.4.0 missing eating interaction.
Checked October 7, 2026. The launch-period footage’s exact build is not displayed. Official patch notes take priority for the missing interaction. The count is Cafe plus three named storefronts.