# Potion of blindness

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Name

blindness

Appearance

random

Base price

150 zm

Weight

20

Monster use

May be used offensively by monsters.

As the name suggests, the potion of blindness can cause blindness.

Contents

1 Effects
2 Strategy
3 History
4 See also

Effects
When quaffed, a potion of blindness makes you blind for a duration dependent on its BUC status, as shown below.

Blessed
Uncursed
Cursed

125–324
250–449
375–574

Dipping a unicorn horn into one of these will produce an uncursed potion of water.
A potion of blindness can be thrown at monsters to blind them.

Strategy
Blindness is generally undesirable, but protects against gaze attacks and lets you use intrinsic telepathy. A blindfold or towel is preferable, due to togglability and permanence. For advice on how to cope with blindness, see zen.
Once you have a better way to blind yourself, it is best to dilute your potions of blindness to make water.

History
In NetHack 3.4.3, (alternate) wielding this potion nullifies the blindness attack of Archons and yellow lights. This was fixed in NetHack 3.6.0.

See also
Cream pie: another item that can blind monsters or the player

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