How to Get Rid of the Garlic Exposure Debuff

Learn how to get rid of the Garlic Exposure debuff in V Rising. Discover methods to reduce its effects, increase your Garlic Resistance, and craft helpful potions and gear.

Garlic Exposure is a debuff encountered in V Rising when players spend too long in areas with garlic, typically found in Dunley Farmlands. It increases damage taken and reduces damage dealt, with effects worsening with more stacks, up to a maximum of 100.

How to Remove Garlic Exposure:

The primary method to remove Garlic Exposure is by waiting it out. Approximately 20 seconds are needed for one stack to disappear without any Garlic Resistance. Increasing your Garlic Resistance significantly speeds up this process. For instance, with 90 Garlic Resistance, four stacks disappear in about 20 seconds. Using items like the Hunter's Cloak, Garlic Resistance Potion, or transforming into Bear Form can instantly reduce your current stacks to 33, even if you were at 100.

Increasing Garlic Resistance:

Your resistances can be viewed on the character screen, to the right of your equipment. Increasing Garlic Resistance reduces the rate at which stacks are applied, speeds up recovery, and lowers the maximum stacks you can accumulate. For example, 15 Garlic Resistance reduces stack application by 60%, increases recovery by 60%, and caps maximum stacks at 89.

Methods to Increase Garlic Resistance:

• Consumables: Temporary buffs that can last up to 20 minutes.
• Gear: Equipping items with Garlic Resistance +X provides a permanent increase.

Garlic Resistance Consumables:

• Minor Garlic Resistance Brew: +25 Garlic Resistance for 1200 seconds. Crafted in the Character Screen with 40 Hell’s Clarion, 1 Rat, 1 Water-filled Canteen. (Reward from defeating V-Boss Polora the Feywalker).
• Garlic Resistance Potion: +50 Garlic Resistance for 1200 seconds. Crafted at an Alchemy Table with 20 Hell’s Clarion, 20 Sunflower, 4 Rat, 1 Water-filled bottle. (Unlocked via Study with 75 Scrolls, or as a reward from defeating V-Boss Clive the Firestarter).

Garlic Resistance Equipment:

• Hunter’s Cloak: +15 Garlic Resistance (also provides +15 Sun Resistance, +15 Silver Resistance). Crafted at a Tailoring Bench with 8 Cotton Yarn. (Reward from defeating V-Boss Beatrice the Tailor).

Garlic Resistance Powers:

• Bear Form: Provides +25 to resistances. Obtained by hunting V-Boss “Ferocious Bear”.