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 [[Putting on]] the ring grants the [[warning]] property, which allows the [[hero]] to detect the presence of most hostile monsters beyond their sight. Monsters will not wear this ring.
-A hero [[Eating jewelry|eating the ring]] has a {{frac|3}} chance of successfully absorbing its magic and granting [[intrinsic]] [[warning]].{{refsrc|src/eat.c|1959|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
+A hero [[Eating jewelry|eating the ring]] has a {{frac|3}} chance of successfully absorbing its magic and gaining [[intrinsic]] [[warning]].{{refsrc|src/eat.c|1959|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
 ==Strategy==

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 ==Description==
-[[Putting on]] the ring grants the [[warning]] property, which allows the [[hero]] to detect the presence of most hostile monsters beyond their sight.
+[[Putting on]] the ring grants the [[warning]] property, which allows the [[hero]] to detect the presence of most hostile monsters beyond their sight. Monsters will not wear this ring.
-[[Eating jewelry|Eating the ring]] has a {{frac|3}} chance of successfully absorbing its magic and granting [[intrinsic]] [[warning]].{{refsrc|src/eat.c|1959|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} Monsters will not wear this ring.
+A hero [[Eating jewelry|eating the ring]] has a {{frac|3}} chance of successfully absorbing its magic and granting [[intrinsic]] [[warning]].{{refsrc|src/eat.c|1959|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
 ==Strategy==

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 ==Messages==
 {{message|The sink glows white for a moment.|You dropped a ring of warning down a sink.}}
 ==References==

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 ===Identification===
-While wearing the ring of warning will not auto-identify it and its base cost of 100[[zm]] is fairly common, an attentive hero can informally identify it by wear-testing rings in areas where known hostiles are outside the hero's sight, e.g. [[mimic]]s within [[shop]]s&mdash;the immediate presence of number glyphs (or colored question marks, if playing with the default [[tileset]]) after putting on an unknown ring of warning is usually enough to tip off the player. [[Dropping]] the ring down a [[sink]] also produces a distinct message.
+While wearing the ring of warning will not auto-identify it and its base cost of 100[[zm]] is fairly common, an attentive hero can informally identify it by wear-testing rings in areas where known hostiles are outside the hero's sight, e.g. [[mimic]]s within [[shop]]s&mdash;the immediate presence of number glyphs (or colored question marks, if playing with the default [[tileset]]) after putting on an unknown ring of warning is usually enough to tip off the player. [[Dropping]] the ring down a [[sink]] also produces a distinct message.{{refsrc|src/do.c|528|nethack=3.6.7}}
 ==History==

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 ==History==
-The ring of warning first appears in [[Hack 1.0]].
+The ring of warning first appears in [[Hack 1.0]]. From this version to [[NetHack 3.3.0]], including some variants based on those versions, a ring of warning displays messages indicating a colored flash when a hostile monster is nearby, with the color corresponding to the warning numbers in later versions:{{refsrc|mon.c|267|version=NetHack_3.3.0}} pink corresponds to "1", red to "2", ruby to "3", purple to "4", and black to "5". Messages higher in the list take precedence over lower ones; while blinded, no warning messages are displayed, and while hallucinating rings of warning are referred to as "mood rings" and their colors are replaced with hallucinatory ones. No warning messages are displayed from the ring if one has been displayed within the hero's last ten actions, unless the new message reflects a higher level of warning than the previous one.
-In [[NetHack 3.3.0]] and earlier versions, including some variants based on those versions, wearing the ring of warning produced the following message:
+The current warning system is first implemented in [[NetHack 3.3.1]].
-{{message|You mood ring glows <color>.|You are wearing a ring of warning.{{refsrc|mon.c|353}}}}
+===Older messages===
 ==Messages==

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 ==Strategy==
 {{main|Warning}}
-The ring of warning is a valuable early find for many roles in order to detect stronger hostile monsters as they work towards progressing out of the early game, and is a valuable supplement to [[telepathy]] since it can detect [[mindless]] monster that would be missed otherwise. Several roles gain warning through [[experience level]]s, which renders this ring useless for them beyond [[polyfodder]], and a few other roles can gain the property from their [[quest artifact]]&mdash;dedicated [[vegan]]s, [[zen]] heroes and various multiple-[[conduct]] character builds among others may consider holding on to one as a means of hostile detection if telepathy sources would either break those conducts, or else they prove especially scarce.
+The ring of warning is a valuable early find for many roles in order to detect stronger hostile monsters as they work towards progressing out of the early game, and is a valuable supplement to [[telepathy]] since it can detect [[mindless]] monster that would be missed otherwise. Several roles gain warning through [[experience level]]s, which renders this ring useless for them beyond [[polyfodder]], and a few other roles can gain the property from their [[quest artifact]]&mdash;dedicated [[vegan]]s, [[zen]] heroes and various multiple-[[conduct]] character builds among others may consider keeping a few to wear or even eat as a means of detecting hostile monsters if telepathy sources would either break those conducts, or else they prove especially scarce.
 ===Identification===

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-Wearing a '''ring of warning''' gives you the [[warning]] property.
+A '''ring of warning''' is a type of [[ring]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''.
-== Identification ==
+==Generation==
-It is easy to identify; simply wear it and go to a dungeon level with monsters that you cannot directly see. The warning will cause them to be displayed as numbers (or colored question marks, if playing with tiles).
+General [[store]]s and jewelers shops can sell rings of warning.
-== Strategy ==
+==Description==
 {{main|Warning}}
-Warning is a valuable property to have; while it does not explicitly reveal the identity of the creatures a la [[telepathy]], it has a larger range than telepathy, and works while unblind unlike intrinsic telepathy. Telepathy also does not sense mindless creatures like undead, whereas warning works on all but monsters of level 3 or lower. However, several roles get warning intrinsically as they increase in level; for them, a ring of warning is obviously useless once they reach that point.
+===Identification===
+While wearing the ring of warning will not auto-identify it and its base cost of 100[[zm]] is fairly common, an attentive hero can informally identify it by wear-testing rings in areas where known hostiles are outside the hero's sight, e.g. [[mimic]]s within [[shop]]s&mdash;the immediate presence of number glyphs (or colored question marks, if playing with the default [[tileset]]) after putting on an unknown ring of warning is usually enough to tip off the player.
-{{stub}}
+==History==
 [[Category:Rings|Warning]]