# Breathless
In NetHack, breathlessness is a property that allows you or other monsters to travel underwater, making them amphibious.[1]
Breathlessness protects from sleeping gas traps[2][3][4] and stinking clouds.[5][6] It does not protect from a worn amulet of strangulation unless the player is also mindless, instead displaying different messages indicating a lack of blood flow to the brain. Breathless players cannot choke on food, but will instead "vomit voluminously" and lose 1000 nutrition.[7]
Breathlessness is only granted by eating or wearing an amulet of magical breathing, but is possessed naturally by many monsters.

Breathless monsters
All undead: LMVWZ&nbsp;
All jmvyFP'
All e except floating eyes
b&nbsp;acid blob
g&nbsp;gargoyle
g&nbsp;winged gargoyle
E&nbsp;earth elemental
X&nbsp;xorn
the @&nbsp;Wizard of Yendor
@&nbsp;Charon (deferred)
&amp;&nbsp;mail daemon
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Binders gain breathlessness while they have Astaroth bound to them.

References

↑ mondata.h in NetHack 3.4.3, line 32

↑ trap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 784

↑ trap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1227

↑ trap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1808

↑ region.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 908

↑ region.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 925

↑ eat.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 240

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