Potion of sleeping
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| Name | sleeping |
| Appearance | random |
| Base price | 100 zm |
| Weight | 20 |
| Monster use | May be used offensively by monsters. |
A potion of sleeping is a type of magical potion that appears in NetHack.
Contents
Generation
Wizards may generate with a potion of sleeping as any of their three random starting potions.[1]
Potions of sleeping make up 21⁄500 (4.2%) of all randomly-generated potions. General stores and liquor emporiums can sell potions of sleeping.
Description
Quaffing a potion of sleeping without sleep resistance or free action will put a hero to sleep for a duration dependent on the beatitude of the potion:[2] a blessed potion lasts for 13-23 turns, an uncursed one lasts for 25-35 turns, and a cursed one lasts for 37-47 turns. The potion has no effect on a hero that has either sleep resistance or free action.[3]
A monster hit by a thrown potion of sleeping will fall asleep for up to 12 turns if they do not have sleep resistance or free action, while a hero that is hit by a thrown potion or breathes the potion's vapors will be immobilized for up to five turns and abuse dexterity unless they have sleep resistance or free action.[4][5]
Strategy
The potion of sleeping is a decent option early on to immobilize a particularly troublesome monster, but can easily be overshadowed by the wand of sleep or the spell of sleep; one of its few comparative advantages is that it does not risk catching nearby monsters in the crossfire unlike sleep rays. Outside of this, potions of sleeping are generally a candidate for dilution.
History
The potion of sleeping first appears in NetHack 3.3.0.
Messages
- You suddenly fall asleep!
- You quaffed a potion of sleeping and fell asleep.
- You feel rather tired.
- You breath the vapors of a potion of sleeping.
- You yawn.
- You quaffed the potion or breathed its vapors while you have sleep resistance or free action.
- <The monster> falls asleep.
- A monster was put to sleep by the potion of sleeping.
Encyclopedia entry
The potion of sleeping shares its encyclopedia entry with the potion of booze:
On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes -- it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip, "I have not slept here all night." He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep. The strange man with a keg of liquor -- the mountain ravine -- the wild retreat among the rocks -- the woe-begone party at ninepins -- the flagon -- "Oh! that flagon! that wicked flagon!" thought Rip -- "what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle!"
