Ring of cold resistance

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Name cold resistance
Appearance random
Base price 150 zm
Weight 3

A ring of cold resistance is a type of ring that appears in NetHack.

Description

While worn, the ring confers cold resistance - this prevents you from taking any cold damage, though it can still affect your open inventory and shatter any potions present.

Strategy

Like some other resistance rings, the ring of cold resistance may be worth wearing early on to deal with obstacles such as an early wand of cold, or else as aid in obtaining the property intrinsically: for example, blue jellies are sessile but cannot be attacked in melee without triggering their cold passives, and winter wolves and their cubs can generate in the early game and cause severe damage with their breath. Their corpses and tins along of such monsters also serve as decent sources of the intrinsic.

Identification

Main article: Price identification

The ring of cold resistance is 150zm like many other rings with resistance properties.

History

In Hack 1.21, which is based on Jay Fenlason's Hack, a ring of fire and cold resistance exists that confers both properties. The ring of cold resistance appears as its own item in Hack for PDP-11, and is also included in the initial item list for Hack 1.0.

Messages

The cold water faucet flashes brightly for a moment.
You dropped a ring of cold resistance into a sink - this will prompt you to type-name the ring.

Variants

dNetHack

In dNetHack, the ring of cold resistance auto-IDs if worn.

Message

Your finger feels warm!
You put on a ring of cold resistance.

EvilHack

In EvilHack, the ring of cold resistance is worthwhile as an extrinsic source of the property to safely traverse the Ice Queen's Realm and block cold damage from the level itself or the attacks of several monsters within - beware of ice nymphs stealing the ring off your finger if you do not have full intrinsic resistance or a backup extrinsic source!