Talk:Goblin Tinkerer/@comment-4663462-20111213174517/@comment-4674838-20111213180645

If you have a valid house, you have freed the tinkerer, and there is no condition that would prevent NPCs from spawning in your world (e.g. goblin invasion / nighttime), he WILL eventually respawn and move into that house. If he does not, then either it's a bug that I don't know about, or you didn't free him. If you didn't free him yet (or you found him but he died before you freed him) then he will reappear somewhere in the world and you will need to free him. Check the dungeon, jungle, underground, and possibly even the underworld. You WILL eventually find him, unless that is also some weird bug that I don't know about.