The quick answer
Open Time Limited activities, choose Pardon Parade in Progress, join an available event and accept Public Procession beside the cart. Land ten food throws for participation credit. Jailed players start their own parade from the prison interface; a Joint Parade involves players jailed together under Joint Punishment.
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Join a parade as a spectator
- Open the golden-bird Time Limited activities menu.
- Select Pardon Parade in Progress and choose a listing with space.
- After travelling to the event, follow the marker to the prisoner cart.
- Use the Public Procession prompt and throw the provided food at the prisoner.
- Land ten successful throws and confirm the participation reward before leaving.
A full listing can refuse entry; return to the list and choose another active event. If throwing is disabled after you arrive, step back from the cart until the interaction becomes available.
Understand the weekly reward limit
The standard spectator reward listing includes Jade Fish, Coins, Adventure Slips and experience. Participation rewards are limited to five parades per week; joining additional processions is still possible, but attendance alone does not create more claims.
Check your remaining reward allowance and the current event panel before adding parades to your routine. A missed throw is not progress toward the ten-hit requirement, and a completed event beyond the claim limit is not an unlimited currency farm.
Start a parade while jailed
From the prison sentence interface, select Pardon Parade and then Go to Parade. The procession runs automatically. A standard completed parade removes an hour from the detention timer; its own route lasts up to about ten minutes and can be shortened by participation.
The event timer and the remaining sentence are different clocks. Finishing one parade does not guarantee release when the sentence is longer than its reduction. Read the remaining detention time after returning.
How Joint Parades differ
When a primary offender and implicated players are jailed together through Joint Punishment, they can use the Joint Parade option in the prison interface. It puts the shared punishment into one group procession, with greater sentence reduction for more participating prisoners.
Being in an ordinary co-op party is not the same as having this prison state. If Joint Parade is unavailable, check the sentence interface and whether the players were actually jailed together. Spectators use the same parade-list and throwing interactions described above; there is no separate reward routine to learn.
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Common questions
Why can I not throw food in a Pardon Parade?
Accept Public Procession first and stand a short distance from the cart. Being too close can disable the throwing interaction.
Do I need to be jailed to earn Pardon Parade rewards?
No. Spectators join through Time Limited activities and earn participation credit by landing the required throws, subject to the weekly reward limit.
Sources & verification
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- store.steampowered.com research
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