Itchy skin

itchy skin

ID	Itchy skin

itchy skin

Skin flakes and itches. Is something growing there?

itchy skin is an effect caused by failing the Toughness save caused by contact with fungal spores from a broodpuff or a creature infected with fickle gill.

This effect develops into a fungal infection after 2-3 days (2400 - 3600 turns).^[1].

While this effect is active, the player will periodically see the message "Your skin itches." in the message log.

Prevention or Removal

Drinking honey or eating yuckwheat stems have no interaction with itchy skin. They do not prevent it and they will not reduce the chances of it turning into a fungal infection.
Cooking effects that grant a "75% chance that itchy skin doesn't develop into a fungal infection" (such as Kyakukya's Mulled Mushroom Cider or a custom recipe containing the freeze-dried hoarshrooms or pickled mushrooms) will work only if the cooking effect was present before the itchy skin effect was first applied. This cooking buff has no effect on existing instances of itchy skin.
- However, triggered effect of "making you immune to fungal spores for 6 hours" gained by combining the same mushrooms with certain other foods will terminate existing instance of itchy skin.
Cooking effects that grant a triggered effect of "...one of your negative status effects is removed at random" or "...all of your negative status effects are removed" can remove an existing itchy skin effect. You can potentially gain one of these cooking effects by cooking with starapple jam, congealed salve, or soul curd. You'll need to combine one of those ingredients with at least one other ingredient, and the metabolized effect gained by cooking may or may not be the one that can remove negative status effects.
The physical debuff-removing effect of the Regeneration mutation can remove the itchy skin effect, and will almost certainly do so before it can develop into a fungal infection, even at mutation level 1.