Decorative NPCs! You build a tile, the NPC appears and bases itself around that tile. Right now we have: Sword Rack - Town Guard Counter - Barkeep Hen House - Chicken Trough - Cow House Door - Farmer Simple Door - Crone City Door - Townsman or Townswoman ClearNPC item will zap away a friendly NPC. The cow wandered off! taking suggestions for more. and could use some better screenshots with appropriate houses and settings. EDIT: oh yeah the download link: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9719966/terraria/TownNPCs.obj
If you die enough times, and have enough tombstones, you get a gravekeeper: counts the times you've died in the world Pianist with player-placed piano (since natural ones can spawn): plays music Chinaman if you make a silk lantern and place it: appears in hardmode, sells light and dark shards Dancer with disco ball: walks backwards, says weird things Clockmaker with Grandfather clock: sells copper and silver watches, but not gold Potter with vase/pot/bowl placement: he sells pots, bowls, vases Librarian with enough bookcases: she tells you about magic books Lonely Girl with the first lamppost you place: she says she's waiting for her date, he told him he'd find a jungle rose (if you talk to her with the tux set on she mistakes you for her date) Town Guard should be able to fight. Barkeep should sell beverages Cow should drop leather directly if killed Chicken is a chicken. Idk.
good ideas! however the first step is decorative npcs, not functional. also added the download link, whoops.
This looks like exactly the kind of mod that I'm after! Here's my suggestion: A door for a basic villager. Not like the doors already in the game, but one that is in the background layer and appears to be an entrance into the world behind the playing area. That way you get the basic decorative NPC as well as the cosmetic appearance of there being more to your settlement than just the 2D view in the game. Behind those doors could be anything. There could even be a small variety of doors with different connected NPCs - a simple wooden door summons a peasant farmer, dressed like a yokel. Maybe (s)he could even run after the cows and chickens you've created. A stone door is for a townsman, dressed a little bit more sophisticated. Stone and glass make a fancy door - and the wealthiest looking villager. That way you can decide the look and feel of your settlement by the doors you use. Maybe an iron door would summon a simple guard NPC to protect the others... I imagine it's too much to ask to have the NPCs go in and out of the doors occasionally, since I guess that would mean they temporarily disappear then reappear. My other suggestions is a tiered system of miner NPCs. First of all you have to hire the Foreman. He has quite a high demand in terms of resources (an expensive item is needed to summon him). He acts as a merchant, selling the items that you need to get the other miner NPCs, because he's the boss of your mining operation. Once he's in your town, you can start hiring the other miners. The cheapest one is the Stone Miner NPC item. The stone miner, once summoned, will give you a quantity of stone once per day if you talk to him. Then it's the Copper Miner. Like the Stone Miner but more expensive, he gives you a (smaller) quantity of copper ore every day. The Iron Miner is next. He is yet more expensive, and gives an even smaller amount of iron ore every day. The final, and most expensive one, is the Gold Miner. He gives a tiny amount of gold ore every day. These miners don't actually go out and mine in the world - they do their "work" in the world in the background (can you see a theme in my ideas?), and you just get the rewards. I imagine they would all be quite expensive to get hold of, since they give you a never ending trickle of ores. So when you've got a big settlement and a powerful character, you don't have to worry about the basic metals any more for building your furnishings for your house. What do you make of these ideas? EDIT: I've tried the mod. Works exactly as described. I really hope you can expand this further!
Decorative, huh. In that case just have everyone from your 'Look Spritely Now' thread. Especially the Giraffetaur and Mermaid. So much decorative that it hurts my sides from laughing. From the Giraffetaur, I mean.
hmm. Good ideas. The miners might have to wait a bit- like i said, decorative comes first, then functional. House Door - Farmer added.
Phlebas, is it OK if I can examine the source and include some in my mod sometime? Just want to get your permission.
Of course, feel free. It's not complicated since Yoraizor made the NPC ini settings (dontRelocate and dontDrawFace).
Love seeing immersive stuff like this. So much better than those hundreds of pointlessly overpowered weapon reskins.
A couple of issues I noticed with the mod: At least some of the NPCs arrive into your settlement even if you don't have the prerequisite tile. I had a message about Bessie moving in almost as soon as I loaded an existing world (no Trough). Also, the NPCs don't leave when you remove the tile and there's currently no way to get rid of them. When you replace the tile or place a second one, another copy of the NPC will appear. I now have 3 unkillable copies of Harry walking around. This is actually not bad for chickens and cows, since you can make them killable (friendly=False) and use the mechanic to spawn several of them around a single trough or hen house. In this case, it'd make sense to either use generic "cow" and "chicken" or give them a wider selection of unique names. Several similar-looking town guards would also make sense, but there's got to be a way to remove them without making them killable. Also, right now they'd all be sharing the name "Jerry".
Bessie had some unnecessary code, that has been fixed. Added a ClearNPC item to zap away friendly NPCS. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9719966/terraria/TownNPCs.obj
You'll need tConfig, should be on the front page of Client/Server Mods + Tools. If you have that installed just drag and drop this .obj file into your (My) Documents/My Games/Terraria/Modpacks folder.
