Eyeless
Eyeless monsters do not have eyes. The following monsters are eyeless:
In general, eyeless monsters are protected (or prevented, depending on perspective) from things that affect through the eyes; particularly, many sources of blindness. They have no apparent trouble finding and subsequently killing you; however, whatever sense they move by does not carry over to polymorphed players, who are simply made permanently blind.
An eyeless monster or player is unaffected by:
- a thrown potion of blindness[1].
- if also breathless, thrown[2] or exploding[3] potions.
- a black light's hallucination attack.[4][5]
- a floating eye's paralysis attack.[6][7]
- any blinding attack.[8]
- any gaze attack.[9]
- the blinding effect of a stinking cloud[10] (although they are still subject to the HP loss)
Eyeless monsters are unable to:
Eyeless monsters do not ignore Elbereth as blinded monsters do.
References
- ↑ potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1083
- ↑ potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1160
- ↑ potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1672
- ↑ mhitm.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 925
- ↑ uhitm.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1675
- ↑ mhitm.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1328
- ↑ mhitu.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 2529
- ↑ mondata.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 147
- ↑ polyself.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 981
- ↑ region.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 929
- ↑ dokick.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 198
- ↑ muse.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 466
- ↑ muse.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1074