Terraria NPC Happiness Guide to Pylons & Cheap Prices (2024)

FAQs

How to maximize NPC happiness in Terraria? ›

Happiness is positively affected by crowding, biome preference, and NPC preference. A lack of crowding multiplies the total by 95%, a loved biome or NPC multiplies by 88%, and a liked biome or NPC multiplies by 94%.

Two other factors come into play, but for these, happiness is irrelevant – all that matters is the NPC's presence: NPCs also suppress enemy spawning nearby. In Normal mode, 3 NPCs "on screen" are needed to completely suppress the spawning of enemies, which is usually desirable for a town.

If you want to make cleansing your entire world a feasible task, a Clentaminator or Terraformer is an essential tool. A handful of Biome Sight Potion will greatly help you too. PC version) blocks for the Terraformer, then glide down each one using Wings or a Featherfall Potion, while spraying both sides.

Dating: After 3 days in love, the female NPC will ask you to date. You can accept or not. During courtship, the price of items that NPCs sells will be reduced by 50% and they displayed heart emoticons when close to players.

The most expensive item in all of Terraria is the Companion Cube, a subtle reference to the popular Valve sci-fi puzzle video game, Portal. The Companion Cube will rarely be part of the Traveling Merchant's shop, and he will sell it for an extortionate amount of five platinum.

Part 1: NPC => Bazaar

When people say "NPC Flipping", they usually refer to this method. Most of the time NPC item selling price is lower than a Bazaar selling price. That means you can actually buy items from NPC and sell these items to Bazaar for a higher price. This method can give you about 100k coins daily.

If an NPC is killed, they will respawn after a delay, as long as a suitable vacant house is still available.

grab Demolitionist early if you want an underground pylon. he'll sell you one put a cat / dog in there too so you activate it with 2 npcs nearby.

How to get every Terraria pylon? ›

You can obtain each pylon by putting 2–3 NPCs in one biome and getting their happiness high enough. The only pylon that doesn't require this is the universal pylon, which is obtained by completing the bestiary and is sold by the zoologist.

Once players have fourteen NPCs (eight on the mobile and console versions) in their Terraria town, there is then a 2.5% chance that the Party Girl will spawn every morning and evening. Players should note that the Old Man, Traveling Merchant, and Skeleton Merchant NPCs don't count toward this goal.

Jungle Biome

This is probably the easiest biome to set up. All of the NPCs like each other and the biome they are in, and the painter is in love with the Dryad.

The Goblin Tinkerer is one of the most useful NPCs in Terraria due to his ability to reforge items. This means he can change the modifiers on weapons and accessories for a price. He also sells some useful items, such as the Tinkerer's Workshop which is needed to combine certain accessories.

Luck influences many of Terraria's randomly-chosen items and events, such as the chances of item drops, rare enemy and critter spawns, certain town NPCs' first appearances, or the Traveling Merchant's inventory items.

Torches. By placing or holding torches in the correct locations, players can increase their luck: Placed torches on the Surface and in Space are ignored. This means that in these layers, only held torches will affect luck.

To get the Truffle to move in, there must be a vacant House in (or near) a Surface Glowing Mushroom Biome (i.e. one that is above 0 elevation). Surface Glowing Mushroom biomes do not generate naturally and therefore must be manually created.

The Dye Trader is an NPC that sells the Dye Vat and other dye-related items. He will move in when the following criteria have been met: There is an empty house. The player has a dye, dye ingredient, or Strange Plant in their inventory, and at least four other town NPCs are in the world.