Jukebox Ring
| Jukebox Ring | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ring |
| Location | Item ID Glitch |
| Sell Price | 100g |
The Jukebox Ring is a curiosity rather than a piece of equipment. It exists in the game's own list of rings, with a name, a picture and a description, but the valley holds no chest, shop or monster that hands one over. Its description promises a random assortment of music the farmer has already heard, which reads as a wearable version of the Mini-Jukebox that sits in a farmhouse and plays collected tracks. Farmers who have gone looking for every ring in the game run into it as the one gap in the collection. It appears on the game's ring list beside the Wedding Ring and the gem rings, and like them it carries a small resale value, which is the only number attached to it that means anything.
Effect
The name and the description together describe the intention clearly enough. A ring that plays music would have worked the way the Mini-Jukebox does, drawing from the songs the farmer has unlocked by hearing them in the valley, and playing them continuously while the ring stayed on. That would have made it the only ring in the game whose effect was neither a stat nor a drop, simply company on a long walk.
Ring slots are the real currency on that list. Two rings go on at once, and the Forge at the top of the Volcano Dungeon welds two of them into a single Combined Ring that carries both effects for a payment of Cinder Shards. A combined ring cannot be fed back into another combination, so the practical ceiling is four effects across the two slots. Any ring whose whole job was music would have had to win one of those four places against something like a Burglar's Ring or a Lucky Ring, which says a lot about who wanted it and why.
It is listed with the rings, counted with the rings, and leaves the two ring slots to the twenty odd rings that do something.
Notes
Collectors are the people who care about it. Anyone working through the full list of rings and boots will find that the list cannot be finished by ordinary play, and this ring is one of the reasons. Farmers comparing notes about the complete set usually name it alongside the Cowboy Boots, the other piece of gear with a name, a sprite and nowhere to be found.
The Forge also runs in reverse. Dropping a combined ring back in and pressing the unforge button splits it into the two originals, with some of the Cinder Shards refunded. A late-game farmer can therefore build one pairing for a cave run and a different pairing for a quiet day on the farm. That shuffling is why the ring list feels like a collection in the first place. The Jukebox Ring sits outside the routine, remembered rather than worn.
Worn or not, it joins the ring family in the valley's own reckoning, which is why it turns up on the ring list at all.
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 |