How to Treat Husk Infection in Barotrauma

Are you wondering how to treat Husk Infection in Barotrauma? A human or crawler character being infected by the Husk Infection can be devastating and have long-lasting implications for your playthrough, so it is essential to understand how the infection works and how to treat it. A single bite from a husked creature or an injection from the Calyx Extract is enough to infect a character, worsening as the infection strengthens.

How to Cure Husk Infection in Barotrauma

All of the following are ways to treat husk infection:

• Calxanide: This is the best way to treat the Husk Infection, as it will heal up to the 100 Final Stage upon successful use and up to 60 in case of a failure within 1 second.
• Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics: This will heal the Husk Infection up to 30 strength on successful use and up to 15 in case of a failure within 60 seconds of use.
  • You cannot use Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics for a Husk Infection of 75 strength or more.
  • The Husk Infection will continue to strengthen during the 60-second treatment time.
  • Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics will also provide 600-strength Husk Infection Resistance upon successful use or 300 upon failure. The resistance will drop every second until depleted.
    • This will also not reduce the chance of infection by Calyx Extract injections or bites.
• Rum: Drinking rum will reduce the Husk Infection by a specific strength over some time. The best way to use Rum is the Health GUI because it ignores the item’s condition. You can do so by holding right-clicking and then using Rum in the health GUI. Doing so will reduce 48 strength from the Husk Infection if it is below 50.
• Cheat Commands: You can heal a character of all inflictions like the Husk Infection by enabling cheat commands and using the code: heal [character name] [all]

Related: All Barotrauma Cheat and Console Commands – Listed

Here are the four Husk Infection stages based on its strength:

• 0 – 50 Dormant Stage: The Husk Infection is hidden from the Health Scanner HUD until it reaches 20 strength. The Affliction icon is hidden from the health bar until it reaches 40 strength.
• 50 – 75 Active Stage: The Husk Infection causes a 30% speech impediment by garbling radio chat and reducing the range of local chat.
• 75 – 100 Transformed Stage: The Husk Infection causes additional effects like water breathing, pressure immunity, and inability to use chat/radio, adds a special infectious attack, and revives a character as a husk on death.
• 100 Final Stage: The Hust Infection causes +6.3 Inter Damage per death until the character dies.

Note: The Husk Infection grows in strength every three seconds.