We tell you how you can get all the Terraria characters to appear in one of the habitable houses you have built.As you progress through Terraria , both traveling merchants and NPCs will approach your humble abode in search of shelter, either temporarily or permanently. This time, we’re going to talk about how you can get all the characters to come to you to get certain key items, which will help you continue advancing in the game.
All Terraria Characters
As we mentioned at the beginning, Terraria NPCs are essential if we want to get a specific item. The thing is, to get them all we will have to unlock them , either by reaching certain milestones or completing specific missions. In the following list, we will leave you everything you need to know about them, along with the difficulty mode in which they appear.
Normal Mode
aspect |
name |
specialty |
requirements |
weapon |
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GUIDE |
It gives you advice and teaches you the possible crafts with a certain object or material. |
Have a habitable house available in the world |
Bow and arrows |
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MERCHANT |
Sells basic items |
Get 50 Silver Coins |
Throwing knife |
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NURSE |
Heal and remove negative effects from your character in exchange for coins |
Find and use your first Life Crystal |
Poisoned Syringe and Healing Syringe |
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DEMOLISHING |
Sells all kinds of explosives |
Adds an explosive type to your inventory |
Grenade |
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DRYAD |
Sell nature objects |
Defeat the Eye of Cthulhu |
Blessing of the Dryad |
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GUN-RUNNER |
Sells firearms and ammunition |
Get a gun or other firearm |
Gun |
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OLD MAN |
Free the Skeletron |
You will have to free him from his curse in the Dungeon |
None |
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PEDDLER |
Sells clothes and thread |
Defeat the Skeletron |
Book of Skulls |
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MECHANICS |
Sells objects related to mechanisms |
You will have to rescue her from the Dungeon after defeating the Skeletron |
Wrench |
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BITTER ELF |
Sell various items and reforge your weapons and accessories |
Defeat the goblin army and unleash it somewhere underground |
Ball with spikes |
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DYE MERCHANT |
Sells dyes and gives quests for dyes |
Obtain a material with which you can make a dye and defeat at least one boss in the game. |
Exotic Scimitar |
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PARTY GIRL |
Sells party-related items |
Have at least 13 NPCs. Has a 2% chance of spawning each day. |
Happy Granada |
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PAINTER |
Sells paint buckets, paintings and tools |
Have at least 7 NPCs |
Paint Gun |
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WITCH DOCTOR |
Sells the machine to imbue weapons and water sources |
Defeat the Queen Bee |
Blowgun |
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STYLIST |
Change hairstyle style and color and sell hair dyes |
You have to free her from the Spider Caves |
Stylish Scissors |
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TRAVELLING MERCHANT |
Sells totally random items. |
Have at least 2 NPCs. Will stay for 1 day. |
Revolver |
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FISHERMAN |
It gives you rewards for completing fishing missions. |
You will have to wake him up on one of the beaches on the map |
Frost Daggerfish |
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INNKEEPER |
Sells items related to Dungeon Defenders 2. |
You will have to wake him up after defeating the Devourer of Worlds or Brain of Cthulhu |
Beer |
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SKELETON MERCHANT |
Sells mining items and yo-yos |
It will be in the basement. You will find it randomly. |
Bone |
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ZOOLOGIST |
Sells animal-related items |
Complete 10% of the Bestiary. (52 routes) |
Claws |
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GOLFER |
Sells golf related items |
Rescue him from the underground desert |
Golf Ball |
Hard Mode
aspect |
name |
specialty |
requirements |
weapon |
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MAGICIAN |
Sells magic-related items |
You will need to untie it from somewhere in the underground or dungeon. |
Fire Flower |
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TAX COLLECTOR |
Collect money from other NPCs (50 Bronze Coins per house) |
Find a tortured soul in the underworld and throw purification powder at it |
Baton with Class |
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TRUFFLE |
Sells the autohammer and mushroom-related items |
Enables a house containing the mushroom biome on the surface |
Truffle Spore |
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STEAMPUNKER |
Sell steampunk themed items |
Defeat 1 mechanical boss |
Assault Rifle |
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CYBORG |
Sells rockets and mines |
Defeat Plantera |
Rockets |
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PIRATE |
Sells pirate-related items |
Defeat the Pirate Invasion |
Gun |
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SANTA CLAUS |
Sells Christmas-related items |
Defeat the Frost Legion |
Christmas decorations |
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PRINCESS |
Sells royal items and a music box |
Have all the NPCs |
Scepter of resonance |
Remember that for each character to stay permanently , you will have to build a habitable room or house. On the other hand, it is worth noting that all the NPCs from the easy mode will also be included in the hard mode .