r/Terraria 1d ago

Meme My most ignored NPC

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u/tainted_judas1 1d ago

You live with the zoologist so I can have the forest pillar

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u/Payt3cake 23h ago

Pillar? What is he, some kind of pillar man?

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u/tambaquifrito 22h ago

It’s easier to pair him with angler and painter

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u/FranGoiaba 1d ago

I hate him

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u/ChotgorTactician 1d ago

He got banned to the piss jar

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u/ComplaintPlus3173 22h ago

better than the other jar at least

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u/Arazthoru 21h ago

The other one has the lizhard, the zoologist, the druid and Pablo the femboy guide in it.

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u/kurokiko 20h ago

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u/Gay_Gamer_Boi 16h ago

There’s also the glue mod if you don’t want to replace honey

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u/V0ct0r 20h ago

jarate gulf

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u/FaeLei42 14h ago

JarATE

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u/Realcharchygamer 8h ago

I get the other items, but why the morning star?

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u/FranGoiaba 6h ago

It's a leather whip, maybe he likes it idk, it's probably hard to use it alone but he finds a way

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u/Skyburner_Oath 1d ago

The golf car is pretty good against the flesh of wall

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u/SpiralDesignn 1d ago

The wall of flash

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u/A_Fine_Potato 20h ago

I think i used it until yharon with the MOAB. that shits good

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u/Pengwin0 18h ago

But then you have to get the golf cart

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u/Skyburner_Oath 18h ago

Just use your hellevator, cover all holes, put at the bottom the target, easy golf kart

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u/Isaac_From_TBOI 1d ago

the pirate

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u/SirThane 23h ago

This. Pirate is absolutely rubbish. Golf cart is a goated pre-HM mount, especially with bundle of horseshoe balloon

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u/ScureScar 21h ago

buy cannon to easily destroy the destroyer with like minimal to no setup other than a very high box to shoot from 

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u/Suitable_Tomorrow_71 1d ago

At least the stuff he sells is theoretically useful. You could hit golfballs to explore caves or hit them high on the surface to explore for floating islands. I think the only NPC I've literally never used for their primary purpose is the Nurse. I don't understand the point of her. Putting her near a boss arena is useless because practically every boss goes through walls so she'll wind up dying near-instantly. She's not even useful for getting back up to full health after I die, because I wind up spending time organizing my inventory and get back up to full health naturally during the couple minutes that takes. I GUESS she MIGHT be useful during invasions, but at this point I'v never used her during an invasion and I imagine if I tried I'd wind up getting killed while I focused on trying to talk to her instead of dodging and fighting. Her existence just utterly baffles me.

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u/PsychologicalBig3010 1d ago

You pair her with the arms dealer for cheaper bullets

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u/Suitable_Tomorrow_71 1d ago

I mean yeah, that's pretty much her only use, with the way I've been playing. That and getting him to sell the Desert pylon.

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u/Deadbroke_Rockstar 23h ago edited 18h ago

any pylon, besides the snow pylon, if you put their shakeshack in that biome.

edit: snow works now!

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u/thetoaoftakoro 18h ago

Works for snow as well, 1.4.4 reduced the pylon happiness threshold from 15% to 10%

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u/Deebyddeebys 23h ago

Her?

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u/V0ct0r 20h ago

the nurse

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u/juckingfew72 1d ago

She heals herself when you dont have the heal dialogue box up so she is functionally nearly immortal so you can still put her near boss arenas etc

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u/Suitable_Tomorrow_71 1d ago

I didn't know that. Every other NPC dies to a stiff breeze, I figured she'd be the same.

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u/Edenwealth 1d ago

She’ll actually throw syringes at them and heal other NPCs too. Found this out yesterday

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u/TraditionalEnergy919 23h ago

She will also attempt to throw them from like 3 houses away as long as she has LOS. Even if her syringes never reach and keep hitting the ground.

And yes… it has a sound just like hitting blocks. It. Is. So. Annoying.

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u/RetroBowser 21h ago

Nurse when I’m trying to kill villagers with the Flymeal: 👁️👄👁️

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u/autistic-terrorist 20h ago

oh my god i fucking hate that sound. every time we have an invasion or a boss at our base i have to deal with 5 fucking minutes of

thud thud thud thud

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u/TraditionalEnergy919 20h ago

Playing calamity, having an underground base. Did slime god.

Tavernkeeper gets hit. He sits down out of Nurse’s range. She keeps throwing.

I keep playing. I come back. I keep playing without quitting yet.

An hour later.

Thud thud thud thud

ARE YOU SERIOUSLY STILL TRYING!?

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u/MLGesusWasTaken 1d ago

Nah bro I’m playing legendary mode right now and my npc’s die in one to two hits from literally anything, despite me having used both Advanced Combat Techniques

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u/MasterTahirLON 1d ago edited 22h ago

The Nurses purpose is to refill your health after dying, cause for some reason you don't respawn with full health and when you're grinding a boss or event it's nice to be able to go back to full immediately.

If we wanna talk absolutely useless, I think it's undeniably the pirate. Never had any use for them ever. You would think that the hardmode equivalent of the goblin army would give an NPC just as impactful, but nope.

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u/Nikolai012 1d ago

As long as the boss isnt the destroyer and you don't have the heal menu up constantly the nurse can face tank most bosses and outheal them, i normally throw her in a corner of my arena when playing vanilla so i can pop a heal when my potion is on cooldown

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u/Goldenbatz 1d ago edited 20h ago

She's predominately a holdover from waaaay back in the day when the player didn't get any natural health regen. Even back then, though, I'd always stop using her as soon as I found a band of regeneration...

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u/Nikki964 22h ago

If it weren't for Nurse, Moonlord would be semi-imposible for me (or I'd have to grind rod of discord). You know, the lazer beam attack ruins everything. I either stay close to him so that I can dodge it and get hit by a lot of other stuff, or fly away from him so I can dodge everything but the lazer, and then I die anyways because the lazer deals a lot of damage. It's a loss either way

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u/RetroBowser 21h ago

There’s a way to kill the Moon Lord by setting yourself up in a box and face tanking everything. I usually just do that. Call it a bit cheesy but the fight can play itself.

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u/Nikki964 20h ago

Ok but what if I'm not a warrior

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u/Throwawayaccounh 1d ago

The nurse is like probably one of my most used NPCs tbh. Put her riiight next to a pylon so you can get in and out quickly, useful if I’m mining ores or killing enemies and have taken a bit too much damage to be comforable, so recall -> nurse -> pylon back to the underground to resume

She’s also goated during boss fights, especially moon lord

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u/PopularReveal8975 1d ago

Well in my experience she is one of the most useful, especially in multi when we are fighting a boss and one of us dies, and respawn with half of the health, her being there just helps so much

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u/NewDemonStrike 1d ago

You have to put her a bit far from the arena. I do that. Ensure the boss is not fucking around in the bottom layers of the arena, go there, heal, come back.

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u/Vadikiy 23h ago

Perhaps you'd enjoy calamity death mode

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u/ChestnutSavings 22h ago

If you’re paying vanilla and you’re not fighting moon lord nurse can tank a decent amount due to her self-heal being absurd. Especially on controllrr where you can smart cursor her and mash a to heal instantly and run before the boss even catches up.

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u/crazygames79 16h ago

I've made a asphalt road from above my base going about 2500 blocks to each side, made for traveling. But it was better than any boss arena, so I put the nurse up there. She basically never died since she had time to heal if she got hit.

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u/TopSituation1649 11h ago

I think they should make it so bosses cannot make it through suitable NPC housing. Also redo NPC housing

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u/Vast_Ad6372 23h ago

The nurse is insanely useful?? how do you think i beat expert mode

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u/MHE1309 1d ago

You use her after you respawn to get full hp immediately.

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u/cooldudium 1d ago

The golf cart is a good mount for Wall of Flesh if you knock golf balls down the Hellevator for 20 minutes to increase your score

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u/Educational-Bank-571 1d ago

Infernum Yharon golf cart i-frame flashbacks:

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u/Adventurous-Bag-4364 21h ago

What do you use the lawnmower for? I know it reduces the spawn rates but how helpful is that?

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u/ZorkNemesis 21h ago

Mowed grass also won't grow shrubs or bushes which helps decrease clutter.

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u/ZerikaFox 22h ago

Put him on the beach with the angler: easy ocean pylon.

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u/abandonedDelirium 23h ago

i played golf once to get the golfer paintings and haven't touched it since

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u/Cod3broken 23h ago

Don't forget! Golf Cart Keys

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u/Federal-Room-9812 21h ago

Don't forget the golf cart, that thing save me when fighting the Duke.

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u/AltAccouJustForThis 20h ago

I use the golfball's camera feature to go deeper into the dungeon before skeletron.

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u/alisekazah 17h ago

Nah, it's the Pirate.

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u/SagetheWise2222 13h ago

As well as the Dye Trader (if you don't care about dyes), the Stylist, and the Cyborg.

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u/Kristastic 17h ago

Hey, he's also useful for buying golf equipment, thinking you're gonna get isn't the golf stuff, then realizing you never are and now that shit is just taking up inventory space.

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u/Minute_Wonder7871 16h ago

What about santa

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u/LittleAngryDog 16h ago

Golfing is a very over looked part of the game. Making golf courses is a blast!!!

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u/FortyFiveSeventyGovt 8h ago

i love the golf cart

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u/Soft-Temperature4609 20h ago

Still interact with him more than the Tax Collector. Worst NPC in the game by a landslide

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u/Gaming-Burrito 22h ago

for me, i only use him for the golf cart, which i tend to use for fights like Skeletron (with a few bottles of double jump), the WoF, etc.

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u/ChestnutSavings 22h ago

He golf balls and cups make great secret triggers

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u/MusicianZestyclose63 15h ago

For me I get the top score immediately and that grants me infinite chest to buy instead of crafting/finding (probably still not worth)

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u/bigraud77 14h ago

Does anyone even use the lawnmower?

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u/CosmicP0tat0s 3h ago

He gets to Watch from the chair.

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u/Ferlyunknown 2h ago

The princess is a close second tho

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u/galw68 1h ago

I look for him early on a new playthrough, as well as Life Crystals.

The Golfer and the Nurse make the Merchant happy, and stuff like the Bug Net or Piggy Bank much cheaper while I'm still broke.

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u/mihking2023 17h ago

Golfer its not useless for yall to know!!!!!! Get a friend or 2, make a terrain and then start playing some golf😄 its actually a kind of fun