# Ring of stealth

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Name

stealth

Appearance

random

Base price

100 zm

Weight

3

Probability out of rings

3.57%

Probability out of items in:

containers

Rogue level

Gehennom

Elsewhere

0.179%

0.179%

0.286%

0.107%

The ring of stealth is a ring that appears in NetHack.

Contents

1 Effects
2 Strategy
3 Messages
4 History

Effects
Wearing a ring of stealth gives you extrinsic stealth and will auto-identify the ring unless you have another source of stealth.
Polymorphing and eating the ring may grant you stealth as an intrinsic.

Strategy
The ring of stealth is a good choice for avoiding sleeping monsters and tackling special rooms (such as the Sokoban treasure zoo), especially if you do not have intrinsic stealth, and you either have not found any elven equipment or else your current boots and cloak are useful enough as is (e.g. speed boots or a cloak of magic resistance). Its auto-identification is useful for saving players a trip to the sink.
Characters with intrinsic stealth will find the ring redundant, and may opt to polypile them once they have it identified, as well as hanging on to one in case intrinsic stealth is lost.

Messages
You move very quietly.
You put on a ring of stealth, and didn't already have stealth. The ring is auto-identified.
You sure are noisy.
You removed your ring of stealth, and didn't have any other source of stealth. The ring is auto-identified.
The sink seems to blend into the floor for a moment.
You dropped the ring of stealth down a sink.
History
The auto-identifying quality of the ring was introduced in NetHack 3.6.0.