Drowning - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: upcoming, earmark

2025-10-07T18:18:58Z

upcoming, earmark

Umbire the Phantom: potholes

2025-01-16T15:34:16Z

potholes

Ais523: drowning is not normally a delayed instadeath – when it kills, it's a regular instadeath except in the case of a drowning attack (which behaves similarly to a delayed instadeath even though it is implemented differently)

2024-06-15T23:35:33Z

drowning is not normally a delayed instadeath – when it kills, it's a regular instadeath except in the case of a drowning attack (which behaves similarly to a delayed instadeath even though it is implemented differently)

Umbire the Phantom: earmark for a later pass, pothole

2023-11-10T07:49:36Z

earmark for a later pass, pothole

Netzhack: "result in"+verb takes a gerund, not an infinitive.

2019-09-01T12:04:41Z

"result in"+verb takes a gerund, not an infinitive.

Luxidream at 15:51, 14 October 2018

2018-10-14T15:51:53Z

Bluescreenofdeath at 06:06, 25 July 2017

2017-07-25T06:06:56Z

Bluescreenofdeath: Another rather obscure example

2017-07-25T06:06:12Z

Another rather obscure example

Lwm: Another way to drown: pets!

2017-07-24T16:46:46Z

Another way to drown: pets!

NeonKow: Redundant bullet point

2015-10-26T14:59:12Z

Redundant bullet point

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 As a side note, if you have [[teleportitis]], random teleports will only place you in water if you are [[breathless]] or [[amphibious]].
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 Common forms of drowning are:
 * Stepping or falling into water when you have too much [[encumbrance]] to escape.
-* Falling into water with no adjacent, non-occupied land tile to escape to.  This could be caused by a [[foocubus]] or [[nymph]] removing your [[boots of water walking]], [[levitation boots|levitation]], or [[ring of levitation]].
+* Falling into water with no adjacent, non-occupied land tile to escape to.  This could be caused by a [[foocubus]] or [[Nymph (monster class)|nymph]] removing your [[boots of water walking]], [[levitation boots|levitation]], or [[ring of levitation]].
 * Being pulled under water by a monster's [[drowning attack]] (which functions similarly to a [[delayed instadeath]] in that it has to hit twice to succeed).
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-'''Drowning''' is a means of [[delayed instadeath]] caused by being submerged in [[water]] when you are neither [[breathless]] nor [[amphibious]].
+'''Drowning''' is a means of [[instadeath]] caused by being submerged in [[water]] when you are neither [[breathless]] nor [[amphibious]].
 Common forms of drowning are:
 * Stepping or falling into water when you have too much [[encumbrance]] to escape.
 * Falling into water with no adjacent, non-occupied land tile to escape to.  This could be caused by a [[foocubus]] or [[nymph]] removing your [[boots of water walking]], [[levitation boots|levitation]], or [[ring of levitation]].
-* Being pulled under water by a monster's [[drowning attack]].
+* Being pulled under water by a monster's [[drowning attack]] (which functions similarly to a [[delayed instadeath]] in that it has to hit twice to succeed).
 Less common forms of drowning include displacing a flying pet away from water onto the only dry land available:

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-[https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?588679-Nethack-First-time-I-died-i-that-i-way This link] describes the tale of a player who was blanking potions on the [[Castle]] level by repeatedly walking into the moat while holding junk potions, and who drowned because a [[giant]] threw a boulder at him. Since that resulted in the only dry land tile adjacent to the water to suddenly be occupied, [[YASD]] by drowning ensued.
+[https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?588679-Nethack-First-time-I-died-i-that-i-way This link] describes the tale of a player who was blanking potions on the [[Castle]] level by repeatedly walking into the moat while holding junk potions, and who drowned because a [[giant]] threw a boulder at him. Since the boulder suddenly occupied the only dry land tile adjacent to the water, [[YASD]] by drowning ensued.
 If you can [[teleport]], you will attempt to teleport away with a certain probability (before crawling out), provided you have sufficient energy. If you also have [[teleport control]], you will always attempt to do so. However, it will not work on a no-teleport level.