Terraria NPC Happiness Guide to Pylons & Cheap Prices

Terraria‘s new happiness system for NPCs is one of the many surprise additions to the Journey’s End update, and it’s one you should familiarize yourself with to make use of the new Pylons, which allow for teleportation between one another.

Pylons are also new to Terraria, and become available for purchase from vendor NPCs that are sufficiently happy. You obviously want to rush at least a couple of Pylons so you can open teleportation between them.

The happier an NPC is, the lower their vendor prices will be; and if an NPC is elated, they’ll sell you a Pylon corresponding to the biome they’re in for less than 10 gold. What a steal!

Before you can get your hands on some Pylons (which we will explain in more detail soon enough), let’s talk about how that whole thing works as well as exactly how you can make your NPCs happy.

How to Get Pylons and How They Work

Pylons allow you to teleport from one to the other, as long as you have at least two available to you.

Once a vendor NPC is happy enough, they will have for sale a Pylon corresponding to the biome they are in.

For instance, if the Dryad and Witch Doctor are together in a house in the jungle (satisfying their happiness needs), both will have Jungle Pylons for sale as they will be in their preferred biome with an NPC they like, and they are not overcrowded.

The following Pylons can be purchased from happy NPCs:

• Cavern Pylon
• Forest Pylon
• Snow Pylon
• Desert Pylon
• Jungle Pylon
• Mushroom Pylon
• Hallow Pylon

The Cavern Pylon can be purchased if the NPC is housed underground and not in a specific biome.

If your NPCs are living somewhere with two biomes, you may be able to buy Pylons for both biomes from them.

Additionally, once you complete the Bestiary, you will be able to buy a Universal Pylon from the Zoologist regardless of her happiness.

How Pylons Work

There are two requirements for getting Pylons to work:

1. Pylons will only work when near at least two NPCs who have a home
2. Pylons will only work when placed in their corresponding biome

I’m not entirely sure what range the NPCs need to be from the Pylons to work, but they do not necessarily have to be squished into one room.

When you come close to a Pylon after you already have two up, you will be able to click on a Pylon once nearby to select another one on the world map to teleport to.

This system forces you to divide up your NPCs permanently if you want to continue to use the Pylon Network, but Pylon use is not tied to NPC happiness.

You can divide your NPCs up however you like once you’ve bought Pylons from them, but remember their happiness affects their sales prices for other goods as well.

How to Make Terraria NPCs Happy

Giving your resident NPCs a more fulfilling life isn’t something we really had to think about before Journey’s End, and you only need to consider it up to a point even now.

NPC happiness affects whether they will sell Pylons and the prices of their goods. It is based on:

• The biome they live in
• How many other NPCs are nearby
• Which NPCs are nearby

As a general rule of thumb when trying to make your NPCs happy, keep them to two or three NPCs in a 25 to 30 tile area.

You’ll be able to figure out where to house your NPCs using the table below, based off their preferred and disliked biomes and fellow NPCs.

Because you only need eight separate biome Pylons, you only need to focus on eight vendor NPCs. Pick and choose the ones you want to focus on!

Found this guide helpful? We’ve got plenty of other guides for Terraria:

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• How to Make Terraria Boss Fights Easier

That’s it for Terraria NPC happiness, pylons, and cheap prices! Keep your eyes peeled for more Terraria guides here on GameSkinny.