The rules for a Long Rest state (PHB p. 186) that a Long Rest is interrupted by a “period of strenuous activity—at least 1 hour of walking, fighting, casting spells, or similar adventuring activity”. Therefore, taking a Short Rest does not interrupt a Long Rest. You can have Short Rests within a Long Rest.
How many items can you attune to during a long rest?
An item can be attuned to only one creature at a time, and a creature can be attuned to no more than three magic items at a time. Any attempt to attune to a fourth item fails; the creature must end its attunement to an item first.
Can you attune to an item?
Yes, an unattuned magic weapon can be a pact weapon. Some magic items require a creature to form a bond with them before their magical properties can be used.
Can you use a short rest to attune to a magic item?
Thus requiring only one short rest. No. You can’t attune to a magic item if you don’t understand it’s properties, especially if you don’t know that it requires attunement. The rules specifically require that the short rest used to attune be a different short rest than the short rest used to identify its properties:
Can You short rest during a long rest?
By RAW, you can. The rules for a Long Rest state (PHB p. 186) that a Long Rest is interrupted by a “period of strenuous activity—at least 1 hour of walking, fighting, casting spells, or similar adventuring activity”. A Short Rest does not constitute “strenuous activity”.
When to take a short rest in Minecraft?
Adventurers can take Short Rests in the midst of an Adventuring day and a Long Rest to end the day. A Short Rest is a period of downtime, at least 1 hour long, during which a character does nothing more strenuous than eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds.
Is there an allowance for a short rest?
There is no allowance here for getting the benefits of a short rest if you managed to go at least an hour before getting interrupted. As written, you would have to first choose to have a short rest, wait out that hour, and then begin a separate long rest if you wanted to try and get the long rest’s benefits.
