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'''Breathlessnesss''', also known as '''magical breathing''', is a [[property]] in ''[[NetHack]]'' that allows a [[hero]] or [[monster]] to breathe in any environment even if it would ordinarily be lethal, and also makes them [[amphibious]], allowing for underwater travel if they are capable of moving in water.

The only item that grants the breathless property is the [[amulet of magical breathing]]. Various monsters also have this trait as an [[Monster attribute|attribute]], sometimes referred to as '''unbreathing''', that is governed by <code>breathless(ptr)</code> in the code.{{refsrc|include/mondata.h|37|nethack=3.6.7}} 

{{upcoming|3.7.0|Per {{commit|24713061124282731c2d16d3d8ebecc57d906233}}, a hero that successfully prays while in the midst of [[poison cloud]]s and cannot be teleported to a safe area will be given temporary magical breathing for 8-20 turns.}}

==Description==
While breathless, the hero can breathe while underwater without [[drowning]] by any means, though their inventory will be subject to [[Wet|water damage]] as usual, and water squares become "safe" for purposes of [[teleportation]]. The hero is also protected from the effects of [[sleeping gas trap]]s and the [[engulf]]ing attacks of [[fog cloud]]s;{{refsrc|src/trap.c|1109|nethack=3.6.7|comment=sleeping gas traps against you}} [[poison cloud]]s will not damage them regardless of [[poison resistance]] and are not considered a major [[trouble]] for prayer while you have the property, though they can still render the hero [[blind]].{{refsrc|src/region.c|972|nethack=3.6.7|comment=you and poison clouds}}{{refsrc|src/region.c|1081|nethack=3.6.7|comment=dangerous locations and prayer}} Protection from sleeping gas and poison clouds also applies to breathless monsters.{{refsrc|src/trap.c|1619|nethack=3.6.7|comment=sleeping gas traps against your steed}}{{refsrc|src/trap.c|2312|nethack=3.6.7|comment=sleeping gas traps against other monsters}}{{refsrc|src/region.c|995|nethack=3.6.7|comment=monsters and poison clouds}}

A hero cannot choke while breathless: if they would choke from [[eating]] too much food, they will instead "vomit voluminously", abusing [[constitution]] and losing 1000 [[nutrition]].{{refsrc|src/eat.c|252|nethack=3.6.7}} This also protects from the instant choking effect of eating an [[amulet of strangulation]], but does ''not'' protect from a worn amulet of strangulation unless the hero is also [[mindless]], since the worn amulet also crushes their neck.

The 1000 [[experience point]]-bonus for killing [[sea monster]]s with drowning attacks does not apply while the hero are amphibious, including from breathlessness.{{refsrc|src/exper.c|119|nethack=3.6.7}}

===List of breathless monsters===
The following monsters are breathless:

* All [[undead]]: {{mcsl|L}}{{mcsl|M}}{{mcsl|V}}{{mcsl|W}}{{mcsl|Z}}{{mcsl| }}
* All {{mcsl|j}}{{mcsl|m}}{{mcsl|v}}{{mcsl|y}}{{mcsl|F}}{{mcsl|P}}{{mcsl|'}}
* All {{mcsl|e}}, except [[floating eye]]s
* {{monsymlink|acid blob}}
* {{monsymlink|gargoyle}}
* {{monsymlink|winged gargoyle}}
* {{monsymlink|earth elemental}}
* {{monsymlink|xorn}}
* the {{monsymlink|Wizard of Yendor}}
* {{monsymlink|Charon}} ([[deferred features|deferred]])
* {{monsymlink|mail daemon}}

==Messages==
{{message|You are laden with moisture and find it mildly uncomfortable.|You are breathless and engulfed by a [[fog cloud]].}}
{{message|You sink like a rock. But you aren't drowning. You touch bottom.|You fell into the water while breathless.}}
{{message|You choke, but recover your composure.|You were saved from instant choking by breathlessness.}}
{{message|You stuff yourself and then vomit voluminously.|You were saved from overeating by breathlessness.}}

==Variants==
===SLASH'EM===
In [[SLASH'EM]], [[Vampire (starting race in SLASH'EM)|vampiric]] heroes are naturally unbreathing.

===UnNetHack===
In [[UnNetHack]], [[Vampire (starting race in UnNetHack)|vampiric]] heroes are naturally unbreathing as in SLASH'EM.

===dNetHack===
In [[dNetHack]], breathlessness does not prevent strangulation as such, but causes the hero's breath timer to ignore the status entirely until it times out harmlessly.

[[Vampire (starting race in dNetHack)|Vampiric]] characters are naturally unbreathing as in other variants. [[White dragon scales]] and scale armor grant breathlessness as a secondary extrinsic while worn. The [[Spirits (dNetHack)|spirit]] [[Astaroth]] confers breathlessness while bound.

===FIQHack===
In [[FIQHack]], wearing white dragon scales or [[white dragon scale mail]] also grant breathlessness.

Breathlessness is one of the properties that can be conferred by [[quaff]]ing or [[dip]]ping into a [[potion of wonder]].

===EvilHack===
In [[EvilHack]], [[sea dragon scales]] and [[sea dragon scale mail]] grant breathlessness while worn.

===notdNetHack===
In addition to dNetHack details, [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]] add [[The Gillystone]], an [[artifact]] emerald that conveys breathlessness while carried.

===Hack'EM===
In [[Hack'EM]], sea dragon scales and sea dragon scale mail grant breathlessness while worn.

==References==
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[[Category:Properties]]
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