Potion of full healing
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| Name | full healing |
| Appearance | random |
| Base price | 200 zm |
| Weight | 20 |
| Monster use | May be used defensively by monsters. |
A potion of full healing is a type of potion that appears in NetHack. It can reliably heal up to 400 HP and cure many negative effects.
Generation
Healers start the game with the potion of full healing identified. Randomly-generated monsters may receive the potion of full healing as a defensive item.
Alchemy
The potion of full healing can be created via alchemy by mixing a potion(s) of extra healing and a potion(s) of either gain energy or gain level; mixing a potion of full healing with a potion of gain energy or gain level can create a potion of gain ability.
Description
Quaffing a potion of any beatitude will heal you for up to 400 HP, cure hallucination and blindness, and exercise constitution and strength. A non-cursed potion will also cure sickness and boost your maximum HP if quaffing it would heal you to full HP: an uncursed potion increases maximum HP by 4, while a blessed potion increases it by 8.
Quaffing a blessed potion will also restore one lost experience level if you have any, but also decreases your maximum experience level by one in the process - e.g., if a character is level drained to XL 10 from XL 14, and quaffs a blessed potion of full healing, it will bring their level back up to 11 and lower their "remembered" maximum to 13.
Inhaling the vapors from a potion of any beatitude will heal you for 3 HP up to your maximum and exercise constitution; if you are polymorphed, the health of your base form is adjusted as well.[1]
Dipping a poisoned weapon into a potion of full healing will remove the poison coating. Hitting Pestilence with a wielded or thrown potion will deal damage to him.
Strategy
Several potions of full healing, alchemized and otherwise, are a common fixture in almost every late-game kit.
Smoky and milky potions of full healing present a peril to even the most otherwise-prepared characters: an unexpected ghost or djinn is a quick way to end up dead in a pitched combat situation. Even a blessed potion of full healing with a smoky randomized appearance can prove incredibly (and fatally) inconvenient if you get a peaceful or even hostile djinn when trying to quaff one with your HP in the single-digits. This makes it imperative to heal proactively and avoid treating potions of full healing in particular as a poor man's amulet of life saving.
Quaffing blessed full healing is a decent means of restoring lost levels, but players looking to regain all of their levels may usually prefer a potion of restore ability.
References
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