The ActionType of an Attack's statuseffect is considered "OnEating" instead of "OnUse" if the target is dead. Prevents husks from gaining health by attacking corpses (which allowed players to huskify themselves on purpose and stay alive indefinitely).

Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/Source/Characters/Attack.cs

@@ -161,16 +161,20 @@ namespace Barotrauma
         
         public AttackResult DoDamage(Character attacker, IDamageable target, Vector2 worldPosition, float deltaTime, bool playSound = true)
         {
+            Character targetCharacter = target as Character;
             if (OnlyHumans)
             {
-                Character character = target as Character;
+                if (targetCharacter != null && targetCharacter.ConfigPath != Character.HumanConfigFile) return new AttackResult();
-                if (character != null && character.ConfigPath != Character.HumanConfigFile) return new AttackResult();
             }
 
             DamageParticles(deltaTime, worldPosition);
             
             var attackResult = target.AddDamage(attacker, worldPosition, this, deltaTime, playSound);
             var effectType = attackResult.Damage > 0.0f ? ActionType.OnUse : ActionType.OnFailure;
+            if (targetCharacter != null && targetCharacter.IsDead)
+            {
+                effectType = ActionType.OnEating;
+            }
             if (statusEffects == null) return attackResult;
 
             foreach (StatusEffect effect in statusEffects)

Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/Source/Items/Item.cs

@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ namespace Barotrauma
         OnWearing, OnContaining, OnContained, 
         OnActive, OnFailure, OnBroken, 
         OnFire, InWater,
-        OnImpact
+        OnImpact, 
+        OnEating
     }
 
     partial class Item : MapEntity, IDamageable, ISerializableEntity, IServerSerializable, IClientSerializable