Molina Mold
Harvesting
- Category
- Flora
- Sub-type
- fungus
Required by contracts(1)
- Clean Aircollect 5
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
An aggressive harvestable fungus introduced in Star Citizen Alpha 4.6, central to the "Clearing the Air" medical-crisis event around Levski in the Nyx system; its spores cause potentially fatal fungal infections in humans.
What it is
Molina Mold is a harvestable fungus (flora-type collectible) rather than a plant or animal part. In-game data classes it as a miscellaneous harvestable with the internal class name `harvestable_base_MolinaMold`, and it shares its base form with other hand-collectible flora harvestables (its "base variant" is listed as the Amiant Pod). It is an aggressive mold first described growing inside faulty air filters at Levski. When its airborne spores are inhaled in high enough concentrations they can make humans fatally ill, which is the premise of the 4.6 event built around it. As a physical item it is small (item "Size 3", roughly 1 cSCU / ~1000 µSCU in volume, ~0 kg mass), consistent with a hand-carried harvestable rather than bulk cargo.
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Gameplay use
Molina Mold functions as an event resource / collection objective rather than a medical consumable you use on yourself. During the Alpha 4.6 "Clearing the Air" event it sits at the front of a manufacturing chain: players gather biological resources so that antifungal cures and replacement air filters can be produced and shipped to Levski. The event splits into transport, defense, and collection mission types, and Molina Mold (and its related event commodities) feeds the collection/hauling side. Note two related but distinct event commodities that appear alongside the raw harvestable: "Molina Mold Samples" (MOLMS) — the biological material contractors are hired to track down and deliver — and "Molina Mold Treatment" (MOLMT), the finished antifungal product hauled to Levski (one community cargo run carried roughly 296 SCU of treatment canisters). So the loop is: collect/recover Molina Mold and samples, treatments and filters get manufactured, then those are delivered into Nyx.
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Value & where to sell
No reliable aUEC buy or sell price is currently documented for the raw Molina Mold harvestable. Both the cstone (Universal Item Finder) and UEX item entries show it is not sold through standard vendor channels, and UEX's commodity pages for the related "Molina Mold Samples" (MOLMS) and "Molina Mold Treatment" (MOLMT) show no established price data — expected for a freshly introduced event item whose community trade data is still sparse. Treat any value as event-driven (mission payouts and event rewards) rather than a stable commodity price, and note these figures are volatile and may change as the event matures or ends.
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Where to harvest
Molina Mold and its associated event activity are concentrated in and around Levski in the Nyx system, the outbreak's origin point, with supporting contractor and hauling work running between Stanton (e.g. New Babbage) and Nyx. The "Clearing the Air" event was designed as a dynamic framework spanning both the Nyx and Stanton systems, so collection, sample-recovery, and delivery missions tied to the mold appear across those locations rather than at a single fixed node. Community gameplay videos document hunting/collecting Molina Mold and hauling Molina Mold cargo from New Babbage to Levski during the 4.6 PTU. Specific cave/biome harvest coordinates are not well documented in text sources yet.
Source
Molina Mold is itself the source organism — a fungus, not a part harvested from a separate creature or plant. It is described as having first appeared growing inside defective ventilation/air filters supplied by Gyson Inc. (sometimes rendered "Gison, Inc.") that were installed at Levski station in the Nyx system. It is named after Samuel Molina, reported as the first person to die from its effects.
Grades & variants
No graded tiers (e.g. Grade A/AA/AAA) are documented for Molina Mold. It belongs to a broader family of hand-collectible flora/fungus harvestables that share the same base item structure — relatives listed in the game data include Amiant Pod (its base variant), Bluemoon Fungus, Amioshi Plague, Decari Pod, Fotia Seedpod, Degnous Root, Flareweed Stalk, Heart of the Woods, Golden Medmon, Pingala Seeds, Pitambu, Prota, Sunset Berries, Ranta Dung, Revenant Pod, and Wuotan Seed. Separately (and not a grade of the harvestable), the event introduces the processed commodities Molina Mold Samples and Molina Mold Treatment.
Effects
In lore the mold is a hazard rather than a beneficial consumable: its airborne spores, inhaled in high enough concentrations, cause potentially fatal fungal infections in humans, which is what drives the system-wide medical crisis. The event's antifungal "Molina Mold Treatment" is the in-fiction cure produced to counter those effects. No player-facing buff/heal/poison stats are documented for carrying the harvestable itself.
Lore / discovery
Molina Mold's outbreak is the backbone of the Alpha 4.6 "Clearing the Air" event. The growth was traced to faulty ventilation filters from Gyson Inc. installed at Levski in Nyx, and it is named for Samuel Molina, the first reported fatality. Clinics and hospitals across Nyx were overwhelmed with people showing symptoms, prompting the People's Alliance to work with the UEE-affiliated Alliance Aid relief organization to replace the defective filters and distribute treatment. The crisis also created criminal opportunity: gangs in Nyx began hijacking delivery ships and ransoming mold victims, while mercenaries were hired to protect shipping lanes and rescue the afflicted. Event participation rewards include new armor, ship tints/paints, weapon skins, and other cosmetics.
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Trivia
- Named after Samuel Molina, the first individual reported to have died from the mold's effects. - The in-game item description states the fungus was "first discovered growing within faulty air filters installed in Levski." - It is one of the few harvestables defined primarily by an active live-service event rather than by a fixed planetary biome. - The fictional supplier of the defective filters is rendered inconsistently across coverage as "Gyson Inc." and "Gison, Inc."