Pylons



Pylons are furniture items that allow a player to teleport to any other pylon, by either selecting the pylon or by finding a pylon in the fullscreen map.

The following restrictions apply:
 * Pylons can only be used when there are 2 or more housed NPCs (including Old Man) near both pylons.
 * Pylons are only practical if there are 2 or more in the world. The system they form is known as the Pylon Network.
 * Pylons only function when in their respective biome.
 * Only one of each type pylon may be placed in a world.
 * The Pylon Network cannot be used during Boss battles or when invasions are announced or in progress.
 * Players must be within interaction range of a pylon (5 blocks) to teleport using the pylon network. The pylon is a dull grey if players are outside of the range.

Pylon shops
Most pylons, with the exception of the Universal Pylon, appear in NPC inventories when the following conditions apply:
 * The NPC is a "vendor" that normally sells items, other than the Traveling Merchant and Skeleton Merchant.
 * The NPC must be happy. The simplest way to ensure this is to house them in the biome that they like, either alone or with an NPC they love or like. The table below indicates which NPCs can be housed in the biome appropriate to the pylon (at a distance from other NPCs) to ensure that one of them is happy enough to sell the pylon. (One of the NPCs may be happy enough to sell the pylon if housed alone, but a second NPC needs to be housed nearby to operate the pylon.)
 * The player is not in an evil biome (Corruption or Crimson).



Although the listed cost for all biome pylons is, they are only sold if the shopkeeper has a price modifier of 85% or less (due to happiness etc). As a result, the actual price will be between and.

A hybrid biome can result in multiple pylons appearing in the NPC's inventory, except the Forest and Cavern, which are mutually exclusive and only available when not in the Snow, Desert, Ocean, Jungle, Hallow, or Glowing Mushroom biomes. Note that the Tavernkeep will replace the Flameburst Staff with any pylons after Golem is defeated, due to his shop inventory being entirely filled.

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