Restful sleep

Restful sleep is a property in NetHack that causes the hero to fall asleep at random intervals.

The only source of the property is putting on or eating an amulet of restful sleep.

Description

While wearing an extrinsic source of restful sleep, the hero will fall asleep sometime within 100 turns after they put on the object, awakening within 1 to 20 turns or else when they are disturbed—this cycle continues as long as they wear the extrinsic source of the property. A hero that has intrinsic restful sleep will randomly fall asleep with the same effects. Sleep resistance will not cure the condition, but prevents the hero from actually falling asleep.

The following information pertains to an upcoming version (NetHack 3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.

Per commit 91c46ab5, while a hero has restful sleep and is asleep, their hit point regeneration is also boosted so that they gain 1 additional HP each turn. If the hero is not polymorphed into another form, this stacks with normal HP regeneration and any additional regeneration property (e.g. from a ring of regeneration).

Per commit 5b5e5477, a message is printed if the hero is within a few turns of falling asleep.

Messages

You fall asleep.

You have the restful sleep property, and have either fallen asleep or else viewed your status via enlightenment.

The following information pertains to an upcoming version (NetHack 3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.

The following message is added from commit 5b5e5477.

You yawn.

You have the restful sleep property and it will cause you to fall asleep in four turns.

Variants

SLASH'EM

In SLASH'EM, the ring of sleeping also confers restful sleep while worn, and can be eaten to obtain the property.

FIQHack

In FIQHack, restful sleep is one of the intrinsic properties a non-cursed potion of wonder can confer when quaffed; dipping an appropriate item in a non-cursed potion also has a chance of giving it restful sleep as an object property.