Terraria – Moving NPCs from house to house

Unfortunately, there is not yet a Housing Menu on the iOS version of Terraria. That would make it much easier to relocate NPCs. However, the classic way to do this from the earlier (pre 1.1) days of Terraria still works!

Assume Merchant lives in house A and you want him to be in house B

• Make all other housing not currently occupied unsuitable (such as removing the table)
• Make house A unsuitable.
• Wait for the Merchant to move to house B.
• Put back all the tables

There is also a less reliable and more evil method: keep killing the Merchant until he moves into the right house.

The game has a total of 21 NPCs that can move into your house. They are:

• The Guide
• The Merchant
• The Nurse
• The Painter
• The Dye Trader
• The Demolitionist
• The Dryad
• The Arms Dealer
• The Party Girl
• The Goblin Tinkerer
• The Witch Doctor
• The Clothier
• The Mechanic
• The Angler
• The Traveling Merchant

Additionally, in hardmode you gain:

• The Pirate
• The Truffle
• The Wizard
• The Steampunker
• The Cyborg
• The Tax Collector

Finally, there is one event NPC that do not live in housing:

• Santa Claus (shows up randomly between Dec 15-31st)

If you look at the wiki you can see a list of all the NPCs in the game. You can tell which NPC is only available in the PC version because these NPCs have a small icon of a computer directly after their description. It looks like this: