# Meat ring

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Name

meat ring

Base price

5 zm

Nutrition

5

Turns to eat

1

Weight

1

Conduct

meat

A meat ring is a type of comestible that very rarely appears in NetHack.

Contents

1 Generation
2 Description
3 Strategy

3.1 List of mineral and gemstone rings

4 History
5 Messages
6 Variants

6.1 SLASH'EM

7 Encyclopedia entry

Generation
Meat rings are are only created by zapping a spell of stone to flesh at a ring with a mineral or gemstone randomized appearance.

Description
Meat rings give 5 nutrition when eaten and can be worn like normal rings, but have no effect (not even ring hunger); you can still drop a meat ring onto a sink similar to normal rings, though this also has no effect beyond giving a specific message. Like tripe rations, meat rings are considered a treat for carnivorous pets.

Strategy
Like meat sticks, most meat rings are accidental creations from an accidental stone to flesh zap at yourself, or a deliberate one used to cure stoning. A meat ring provides very little nutrition, and are best used as lightweight treats to feed any meat-eating pets or else tame carnivorous domestic animals - they can also be used as polyfodder to try and turn into lightweight food such as lembas wafers.
If you cannot uncurse a cursed mineral or gemstone ring any other way, a viable method is to drop all other mineral and gemstone items and then cast stone to flesh on yourself - the cursed ring can then be eaten off your finger, with the only remaining concern being adverse effects of rotten food.

List of mineral and gemstone rings
Rings with the following randomized appearances can be turned into meat rings:

agate
black onyx
clay
coral
diamond
emerald
granite
jade
moonstone
opal
ruby
sapphire
tiger eye
topaz
History
The meat ring is introduced alongside the spellbook of stone to flesh in NetHack 3.3.0.

Messages
Several flies buzz around the sink.
You dropped a meat ring into a sink.
Variants
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, meat rings can be randomly generated as wares found in food stores.

Encyclopedia entry
See the encyclopedia entry for meatball.