Guide talk:NPC Happiness

Now that NPCs still get the happiness boost with two other NPC nearby, should the "optimal placement" section be updated to use trios of NPCs instead of pairs? It should be possible to optimize further that way by stacking happiness boosts for NPCs who like multiple people. 73.239.20.174 16:13, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Range of "nearby"
Is it 50 tiles or 25 tiles that count as nearby? Because my Merchant gets annoyed at having too many npcs near him but he's 38 blocks away from the nearest npc. "Near" in this context means that their housing flags are within 25 tiles (50 feet) of each other. This is not very far; for a typical desktop this is a small fraction of the screen. A typical screen might be over 100 tiles wide and 60 tiles high." https://terraria.gamepedia.com/NPCs#Happiness "Three or more other NPCs within 50 tiles (for each additional NPC)" 101.190.66.190 06:38, 1 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Currently, the "nearby" range is 50 tiles, as per the Desktop 1.4.1.1 source code. I've corrected the guide. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 14:57, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Forest / Space?
First, sorry if this discussion should go on Talk:NPCs instead of here. I decided to put happiness-related questions here. The question is, do NPCs consider Space as the Forest? The Forest Pylon does so, and it works fine in my sky base, but I forgot to ask the NPCs about their happiness and thus don't know. I have my Guide, Golfer and Zoologist in the sky base, and want to know if they would gain the Forest happiness boost or if it is negated in space. --2057clones (talk) 15:12, 1 November 2020 (UTC)