Eating jewelry
Eating jewelry is a method to permanently gain the intrinsics conveyed by wearing some rings and amulets. To eat a ring or amulet, one must first polymorph into a creature that can eat the material of the ring or amulet.
The material of a ring is dependent upon its randomized appearance, not its function. Not all rings are edible, so the set of rings that can be eaten varies from game to game. All amulets are iron so are edible by metallivores, specifically rock moles, rust monsters, and xorns.
Eating a ring has a one in three chance of conveying its powers to the eater, while eating an amulet only has a one in five chance of conveying its powers.
Edible rings
The edible rings, and who can eat them, are given in the following table:
Appearance | Material | Consumable by |
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pearl | iron | metallivore (rock mole, rust monster, xorn) |
iron | iron | metallivore |
twisted | iron | metallivore |
steel | iron | metallivore |
wire | iron | metallivore |
engagement | iron | metallivore |
shiny | iron | metallivore |
bronze | copper | metallivore not restricted to rustprone metals (rock mole, xorn) |
brass | copper | metallivore not restricted to rustprone metals |
copper | copper | metallivore not restricted to rustprone metals |
silver | silver | metallivore not restricted to rustprone metals |
gold | gold | metallivore not restricted to rustprone metals |
wooden | wood | gelatinous cube |
granite | mineral | inedible |
clay | mineral | inedible |
coral | mineral | inedible |
moonstone | mineral | inedible |
opal | mineral | inedible |
black onyx | mineral | inedible |
jade | gemstone | inedible |
agate | gemstone | inedible |
topaz | gemstone | inedible |
sapphire | gemstone | inedible |
ruby | gemstone | inedible |
diamond | gemstone | inedible |
emerald | gemstone | inedible |
tiger eye | gemstone | inedible |
ivory | bone | inedible |
Effects of eating rings
Beware: eating a ring of conflict, ring of regeneration, or ring of hunger will permanently increase your nutrition consumption.
Note: If you eat a ring of adornment, ring of gain strength, or ring of gain constitution and then return to your normal form, you will lose the changes to your stats.
Effects of eating amulets
Amulet | Effect | |
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amulet of change | change gender | |
amulet of ESP | gain telepathy | |
amulet of life saving | no effect | |
amulet of magical breathing | gain magical breathing | |
amulet of reflection | no effect | |
amulet of restful sleep | sleep for 1d100 turns | |
amulet of strangulation | immediately choke | |
amulet of unchanging | unpolymorph | |
amulet versus poison | gain poison resistance | |
cheap plastic imitation of the Amulet of Yendor | inedible | |
Amulet of Yendor | inedible |