Best Rings in Core Keeper: Ring Rankings for Each Build

Best rings for melee builds

Starting from the best combination, this shows how much damage (expected DPS) rises when you swap in each ring for one of your two ring slots.

Rank	Ring	Damage gain
1	Spine Ring	+19.5%
2	Sky Ring	+14.8%
3	Mold Ring	+13.6%
4	Morpha's Ring	+13.1%
5	Lava Spike Ring	+13.0%

Best rings for ranged builds

Starting from the best combination, this shows how much damage (expected DPS) rises when you swap in each ring for one of your two ring slots.

Rank	Ring	Damage gain
1	Spine Ring	+21.5%
2	Gold Crystal Ring	+15.8%
3	Mold Ring	+15.7%
4	Clarity Ring	+14.8%
5	Polished Gold Crystal Ring	+14.5%

Best rings for magic builds

Starting from the best combination, this shows how much damage (expected DPS) rises when you swap in each ring for one of your two ring slots.

Rank	Ring	Damage gain
1	Spine Ring	+21.7%
2	Polished Golden Spike Ring	+17.2%
3	Bubble Ring	+15.0%
4	Azure Ring	+13.3%
5	Glass Bead Ring	+10.9%

Best rings for minion (summon) builds

Starting from the best combination, this shows how much damage (expected DPS) rises when you swap in each ring for one of your two ring slots.

Rank	Ring	Damage gain
1	Puppet Ring	+36.1%
2	Vicious Ring	+11.6%
3	Hourglass Ring	+0.3%
4	Sacred Ring	+0.2%
5	Glow Tulip Ring	+0.1%

Rings for mining and fishing

Rings that boost mining

Gear	Slot	Effect (base)	Max (Lv.20)
Ring of Stone	Ring	+14 mining damage	+276 mining damage
Ancient Gem Ring	Ring	+62 mining damage	+133 mining damage
Black Ring	Ring	+49 mining damage	+82 mining damage
Topaz Ring	Ring	+23% mining damage	+41% mining damage
Polished Octarine Ring	Ring	+7% mining speed	+9.8% mining speed
Black Ring	Ring	+2.5% mining speed	+3.1% mining speed

Rings that boost fishing

Gear	Slot	Effect (base)	Max (Lv.20)
Sea Foam Ring	Ring	+51 fishing	+113 fishing
Goldfish Ring	Ring	Fish (and other things) bite 13% faster	Fish (and other things) bite 25% faster

For full mining and fishing loadouts, see mining gear and fishing gear.

How to choose rings

• You can wear two rings. Combining rings with different effects usually beats wearing two of the same (the summary above is calculated as a pair).
• Values are compared at Lv.20. See upgrading and reinforcing for how to upgrade.
• Every ring is in the ring list. How damage is calculated is explained in the damage formula.