Party



A Party is an event that can occur randomly, or be activated manually using a Party Center. Parties are mainly visual, having little functional effect on gameplay, with the exception of some exclusive vanity and novelty items available from the Clothier and Party Girl. A Party lasts until 7:30PM, and if spawned randomly, begins at 4:30AM.

A Party has a random chance of occurring at any particular dawn ("thrown" by one to three NPCs), without the need for a placed Party Center. A Party will not occur randomly if a random party already occurred in the previous 5–10 days (the actual cooldown period is chosen at random when a natural Party initiates), but a Party can still be triggered manually via the Party Center during that time.

When NPCs throw a Party, any placed Party Center activates, a burst of confetti appears on each NPC, and a pink status message displays: "". At its conclusion, the Party automatically deactivates with a puff of smoke on all NPCs and another pink status message: "". A Party can still be re-initiated manually afterward.

During a Party,
 * all NPCs except the Tax Collector, Zoologist, Old Man, and Skeleton Merchant wear Party Hats, including town pets.
 * balloons continually rise in the background,
 * Bunnies also wear Party Hats (but drop only normal Bunnies when caught),
 * the Clothier and Party Girl sell additional Party-exclusive novelty and vanity items, the Party Girl will give the player a when spoken to, and
 * most NPCs display unique quotes when spoken to.

NPC quotes
Most NPCs display unique quotes during Parties when spoken to:

Trivia

 * The event was introduced to celebrate Terraria's 5th birthday, May 16, 2016.
 * Prior to and the addition of Lantern Nights and Meteor Showers, this was the only event that was peaceful, i.e. did not cause more enemies to spawn.
 * Also prior to 1.4.0.1, the Party Girl was the only NPC to have two Party unique messages.
 * Even though the Tax Collector does not wear a Party Hat or says anything related to Parties, he can still throw a Party.
 * Parties are the only event that allow seeing the hair of some NPCs, most noticeably the Dye Trader.
 * The Goblin Tinkerer's quote references "", a party game.
 * Even though the Pirate's quote is on eating so much cake his beard is white, his beard in his sprite is the same color as always.
 * The Truffle's quote is a joke on the words mushroom and much room.