Glow Ring

Glow Ring

Type	Ring
Location	The Mines / Skull Cavern; Fishing Treasure Chest; Feast of the Winter Star
Sell Price	100g

The Glow Ring lights a circle ten tiles wide around the farmer and keeps it lit, which removes the single most annoying part of the early Mines: carrying a torch in a hand that should be holding a sword. Its light shows ladders, barrels and monsters before they arrive, and it works just as well on the farm after dark. The Night Fishing Bundle in the Fish Tank gives one out, so a player who likes fishing can have it long before the deep Mines are reachable. Most farmers find theirs instead by smashing crates on the floors below forty, and some are handed one at the Feast of the Winter Star by Elliott. Later it folds into the Glowstone Ring and the Iridium Band, which is how the light ends up sharing a finger with something else.

The in-game description reads: Emits a constant light.

Location

The surest early route is the Fish Tank. Completing the Night Fishing Bundle hands the ring over as its reward, which puts it within reach of anyone who fishes at night in Summer.

Underground, the ring turns up on the floors from forty downwards in the Mines and on the first thirty nine floors of the Skull Cavern. It comes out of boxes and barrels or as a rare drop from a monster, so both breaking crates and clearing a floor are worth the time. Players who chose remixed mine rewards when starting a save may also find it in the chest on floor twenty.

Fishing treasure chests can hold it, although only while a Luck buff is running, and a stronger buff raises the odds. The last route is the oddest: the Feast of the Winter Star works like a secret gift exchange, and the ring is one of the presents a villager can hand over.

Effect

The ring emits light from the farmer rather than from anything dropped on the ground, so the circle travels and never needs replacing. Ten tiles is enough to see the far side of most Mines corridors, which turns the lower floors from a guessing game into something closer to daylight.

Lighting stacks. Two Glow Rings together brighten a wider area than one, and the ring also stacks with a Small Glow Ring, a Glowstone Ring or an Iridium Band. That matters less than it used to, since a single Glowstone Ring already carries the full glow effect, but it is the reason a farmer with two spare rings can light up an entire floor.

The practical gain is not the light itself so much as the free hand. A torch has to be placed and picked up again, and a Jack-O-Lantern or a lamp cannot be carried at all. The ring just works, in the Mines, in the Skull Cavern and outdoors at night when a Crab Pot still needs emptying.

Notes

Yellow is the ring's dye pot in Emily and Haley's house, which suits a ring that glows.

Crafting a Glowstone Ring at Mining level 4 makes the Glow Ring redundant on its own, since the Glowstone carries both the light and a Magnet Ring's item pull. The Iridium Band goes further again and adds ten percent damage on top. Even so, the Forge allows two different rings with the same effect to be combined, so a Glow Ring and a Glowstone Ring will happily join into one band for twenty Cinder Shards, with the light stacking exactly as if both were worn.

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