Amethyst Ring

Amethyst Ring

Type	Ring
Location	Adventurer's Guild; Fishing Treasure Chest (0.05%)
Price	1000g
Sell Price	100g

Marlon puts the Amethyst Ring on the Adventurer's Guild counter the moment the Initiation quest is finished, which makes it one of the very first pieces of combat gear a farmer can simply buy rather than earn. Wearing it pushes monsters a tenth further away with every hit, and wearing two pushes them a fifth further. That sounds like nothing, and in a one on one fight it nearly is, but distance is the thing that stops a Bat from landing its own blow straight after the farmer lands theirs. It shares the bottom of the Guild's ring list with the Topaz Ring, so the first thousand gold in an adventuring budget usually goes on one or the other. At the Forge the two can stop competing and become a single band, which is where the Amethyst Ring finally earns a permanent slot.

Location

The Guild is the plain route. Initiation opens the door east of the Mines, and the ring stays in Marlon's stock from that day onwards. He buys rings over the same counter, so a duplicate turns straight back into gold.

Fishing is the slower route. Treasure chests start appearing on the line once Fishing reaches level 2, and the ring is one of the small prizes they can hold. Nobody casts out hoping for an Amethyst Ring, but anyone who hooks chests for a few seasons will eventually pull one up.

Effect

Knockback is how far a hit shoves a monster backwards, and the heavier the weapon the harder the shove. The Amethyst Ring does not add a fixed amount to that push. It scales whatever the weapon already manages, raising it by ten percent, and a second ring on the other finger raises it to twenty. Clubs therefore feel the ring more plainly than daggers do, because there is more push there to multiply.

The benefit shows up in crowds rather than duels. Dust Sprites, Bats and Serpents all work by drifting back into range and nibbling away at health, and a longer shove buys the half second needed for the next swing to connect first. Flying monsters make the point clearest, since nothing on the floor slows them down and the only thing keeping them off a farmer is the last hit they took.

The push is not always welcome. A Shadow Brute knocked across a gap or behind a boulder takes longer to finish off, and a monster bounced into the far corner of a Skull Cavern floor has to be chased. Players who would rather keep enemies within reach go the other way and hope a forged weapon rolls the innate enchantment that reduces weight.

Notes

The dye pots in Emily and Haley's house at 2 Willow Lane accept the ring as a purple dye, so a spare is worth keeping back if a wardrobe needs colouring. Emily unlocks that machine herself in a cutscene once the farmer has collected a single piece of Cloth.

The Forge on the tenth floor of the Volcano Dungeon changes what the ring is worth. Twenty Cinder Shards fuse two different rings into one, which means the knockback no longer has to take up a whole finger. Joining it to the Topaz Ring turns the Guild's two cheapest gems into one band that both softens hits and spreads monsters out, a tidy setup for the middle floors of the Mines. Three rings cannot be folded together, so a combined ring is final, although unforging splits it apart again and returns some of the shards.

All Rings

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Image	Price
Amethyst Ring		100g
Aquamarine Ring		200g
Burglar's Ring		750g
Crabshell Ring		1000g
Emerald Ring		300g
Glow Ring		100g
Glowstone Ring		100g
Hot Java Ring		100g
Immunity Band		250g
Iridium Band		1000g
Jade Ring		200g
Jukebox Ring		100g
Lucky Ring		100g
Magnet Ring		100g
Napalm Ring		1000g
Phoenix Ring		100g
Protection Ring		100g
Ring of Yoba		750g
Ruby Ring		300g
Savage Ring		750g
Slime Charmer Ring		350g
Small Glow Ring		50g
Small Magnet Ring		50g
Soul Sapper Ring		100g
Sturdy Ring		750g
Thorns Ring		100g
Topaz Ring		100g
Vampire Ring		750g
Warrior Ring		750g