Talk:House

I have rooms on my server map that attract NPCs just fine, yet lack doors.. Nokiemens 00:54, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Wooden platforms work as well. It does not have to be a door. --Demian 18:39, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Is 7x5 requirement true? I couldn't get any NPCs until i expanded my rooms to 8x5. 178.141.117.237 18:40, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I keep seeing various numbers, sometimes including floor/roof and sometimes not. I'm not sure. --MissDolyl 12:11, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Of course, this is the size as measured from inside. Looks like the size requirement is defined by the area of the free space inside of the house, which presumably should be no less than 40 blocks (for example, 10x4 worked for me; non-rectangular works too, but needs more testing) 178.141.117.237 09:42, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Inside measurements of 8x4 always work for me, so the minimum must be less than 40 blocks.Blue Legion 06:46, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * To me it seems, that NPCs have different requirements. I built six houses, each 7x5 (9x7 inclusing the walls) and the guide, nurse, merchant and demolitionist each spawned and moved in their rooms. But despite having a musket and killing EoC twice neither the dryad nor the arms dealer arrived. Which is a problem if you need purification powder to break shadow orbs and don't want to use dynamite. Anyways, as soon as I made the rooms of my base 10x5 both, the dryad and the arms dealer moved in immediately. Maybe these two demand some more space to live.--93.220.82.23 18:34, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Indeed, my dryad did not arrive, even though I had a several houses saved for her. All these houses I triple checked and they were good (1 was even taken by my merchant after he died and came back). I later built a bigger house, and she arrived the very instant I placed closed it with the door.
 * On the other hand, 8x4 is enough for everyone on my latest world. Peek at the code, anyone? Otherwise we can speculate forever. --178.141.117.149 19:07, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I think the reason some houses that seem valid are not working is that there is 1 additional requirement, the NPCs need an open space to stand. table, workbench, platforms and solid blocks all block this, you can see the open space they have chosen by where they stand at night. The requirement seems to be at least 4 high and 4+ width, I need to do more testing to confirm the width, but they seem to need at least 4 blocks of non-platform flooring to stand on, they accept 3 tiles but only as long as the blocked area is platform, table or workbench, solid blocks and they wont come --Ket 11:06, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

sharing platforms
According to the page, houses "cannot share doors or platforms". yet, for some reason, the nurse and guide in this picture do not seem to have a problem with the platform they share as ceilling/floor respectively. (nevermind the merchant, i just tore his house down)

P.S: NPCs seem to have a problem with the whole floor being made out of platforms, as seen here (the rooms under the nurse's and the merchant's). As soon as i replaced the platforms with bricks, the rooms where occupied within seconds, as seen here. The NPCs do not seem to have a problem with the whole ceilling being made out of platforms though.62.143.60.43 18:18, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Seconded. Three rooms next to each other (so the center room has only the two shared doors) works fine. --Horsedrowner 13:05, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Securing entrances
As far as I can tell, mobs (well, I've only seen zombies do this) can "bash" open doors, but only if the door isn't designed to open one way only. It seems to me all you need to do is simply make all your entrance doors open outwards one way only. Hell, I've gotten into the habit of making ALL my doors like that. Seems too trivial to secure houses from monsters. - Spinfx 02:02, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Zombies can bash open doors inwards during blood moons, so making them open outwards only is a viable defense then (they can't open doors at all outside blood moons), but Goblin Invasions are another thing. Goblins can destroy doors (as you would do with a hammer), so even if they're set to not open either way (with platforms) the goblins can still remove them.

Logical Condundrum
"Has a chair and a table or a Work Bench."

Does this mean [(chair and table) or work bench] or [chair and (table or work bench)]?
 * It's . --Lunboks 13:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Walls
I've slightly-edited the sentence on wall gaps in order to clear up some confusion. I'm seeing many, many people who build their houses with huge gaps or rifts in the walls and think the game engine things it's okay, so I bolded the sentence and added a little additional info on the purported max size of the gap because I keep seeing people with like, 2x8 gaps wondering why it's not working... 67.233.106.152 14:41, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Kinda Strange
The latest changes with toilet etc. is kinda strange..... Thanks to those changes my druid is now living at the bathroom...

Home/House
A home is the place where someone lives - in a cave, in a house, in an apartment, etc. A house is a structure built, usually with bedrooms and bathrooms, a kitchen, and is usually made of brick, wood, or stone.

That would mean this page should be titled House. 15:47, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
 * By your argument, it should be located here at Home. This page describes the places in which the NPCs will live. It's possible to create a structure, a 'house', into which no one will live, if for instance each room is too small. --74.102.143.152 13:28, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that "House" is a better name than "Home". On the forums, "House" is used far more frequently than "Home", and a building you've build doesn't necessarily have to be a home for the player, just a house (for an NPC). Mark (Talk) 20:33, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * If you talk to the guide, sometimes he says "In order for a room to be considered a home, it needs to have a door, chair, table, and a light source. Make sure the house has walls as well." This means that the game calls it a house/room when it is not hospitable for NPCs, and a home when it is.  --Excavater9 22:11, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Walls (Gold Bricks)
So, I tried building a house out of gold bricks, but nobody showed up. Do they have to be Blocks as shown in the blocks row of Blocks or am I doing something else wrong? --Havvy 13:16, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I assume you are using background walls, have a light source, a chair and a table? And there's an NPC ready to move in (ie. life crystal found, dynamite in inventory, 50+ silver)? Mark (Talk) 20:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Housing Guide/Experimentation
Not sure how much use this would be and how much of this people would like to see added, but I did a ton if in-game experimentation to figure out what works and what doesn't and posted a guide on the Terraria Online site:.

'Windows' in walls causing Monsters to spawn inside your house?
How frequent is this? Is it a guaranteed occurrence? I just wanna add some 2x2 windows or something for looks, but don't wanna walk up to my house to find Zobmies or Flying Eyeballs beating the crap out of my welcomed and allowed residents. BetrayerOfNihil 15:29, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I think that while you can place spawn point there, monsters will not spawn. -- gamecreator (T|C) -- 16:19, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Piano as a flat surface item
Is this correct? iLiaWneK'''|talk|contributions]] 15:09, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Requirement upgrade
I went ahead and changed it slightly since there seem to be a lot of folks that follow the requirements to the letter and still not getting NPC's .. from what I gathered the 3 clear spaces is something required and not listed .. I extended
 * Is at least 5 blocks tall and 7 blocks wide (or 4 blocks tall and 8 blocks wide, not including walls, floor or ceiling).

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 * Is at least 5 blocks tall and 7 blocks wide (or 4 blocks tall and 8 blocks wide, not including walls, floor or ceiling)*.
 * Note: NPC seem to need 3 free horizontal spaces for a place to stand still at night.

If in doubt or when NPC's refuse to live there, make it wider. Don't focus too much on minimum requirements but start with a walled up 10x5 inside space (structural- and back-wall and door), A chair with either table or workbench and you should get NPC's quickly.

Lalophobia 14:41, 18 October 2011 (UTC)