Eating jewelry

Eating jewelry is a method to permanently to 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
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

Ring	Intrinsic granted
ring of adornment	+n charisma
ring of hunger	hunger
ring of protection	+n AC
ring of protection from shape changers	protection from shape changers
ring of stealth	stealth
ring of sustain ability	no effect
ring of warning	warning
ring of aggravate monster	aggravate monster
ring of cold resistance	cold resistance
ring of gain constitution	+n constitution until unpoly
ring of gain strength	+n strength until unpoly
ring of increase accuracy	+n to-hit bonus
ring of increase damage	+n damage bonus
ring of invisibility	invisibility
ring of poison resistance	poison resistance
ring of see invisible	see invisible
ring of shock resistance	shock resistance
ring of fire resistance	fire resistance
ring of free action	sleep resistance
ring of levitation	levitation for d10+10 (more) turns
ring of regeneration	regeneration
ring of searching	searching
ring of slow digestion	inedible
ring of teleportation	teleportitis
ring of conflict	conflict
ring of polymorph	polymorphitis
ring of polymorph control	polymorph control
ring of teleport control	teleport control

Beware: eating a ring of conflict, ring of regeneration, or ring of hunger will permanently increase your nutrition consumption.

Effects of eating amulets

Amulet	Effect
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