Items Cart/Carriage furniture item for Traveling Merchant's specific spawn/arrival (with merchant biome variation)

emz111

emz111

Terrarian
A new placeable cart/carriage furniture item where travelling merchant spawns/arrives

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  • Placing more than one cart will spawn only one traveling merchant randomly in a day of the world over a random cart/carriage placed in total.
  • Same random spawn system and he can still freely walk.
  • Spawning/arriving of traveling merchant in a different biome will sell same merchant items but has a specific mechanic (Maybe has different costume like a gypsy in hallow or pirate in ocean see list below).
    • Gypsy (Hallow) - Has a "Fortune telling" action which gives you a reading and grants a random buff or curse for 24 hrs.
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    • Pirate (Ocean) - Can barter for an item instead of coins like old shoes or excess items like heart crystals.
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    • Druid (Jungle) - Helps you transform into a creature(Werewolf, Merfolk, Harpy, Fish) indefinitely for a price. Ends transformation when merchant departs.
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And also players can decorate the place around the cart/carriage like a dock or camping ground.​
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This is extremely modded feeling. The purpose of this is to make the Traveling Merchant more consistent, right? Why are we giving him new abilities?
 
Big Sammich said:
This is extremely modded feeling. The purpose of this is to make the Traveling Merchant more consistent, right? Why are we giving him new abilities?
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The biome specific traveling merchants doesn't have to be an ability or dramatic changes but a slight variation of the merchant that adds flavor to its current convenience. But the initial purpose I created this thread is to have the merchant a specific spawn position for creativity purposes. Given that we can place him now in a different biome would be nice if we can take advantage of it. The carts are just placeholder waiting for the merchant to come visit.
 
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I actually like the "Shopping Cart" separate from everything else.

I can imagine that thing appearing on-top of the roof of my house [where he usually spawns].
 
Toxophilite [East] said:
I actually like the "Shopping Cart" separate from everything else.

I can imagine that thing appearing on-top of the roof of my house [where he usually spawns].
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The biome merchant variant is a bit overboard hehe. I initially just needed the cart where I can expect him to spawn like in the bay area or next to my garden.
 
emz111 said:
The biome merchant variant is a bit overboard hehe. I initially just needed the cart where I can expect him to spawn like in the bay area or next to my garden.
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I like the cart placement idea a lot. Kind of like setting up a booth for him to sell in.

I’ve also kind of always liked the idea of a food truck type merchant that specifically sells random food items and ingredients.

Would be good if you place in a graveyard or cavern it increases the chance of the skeleton merchant showing up there instead of a random location and the game notifying you that he is in the area.

Maybe that’s the answer to the different biomes? Cart in different biomes attracts a different type of wandering merchant? It’s not like there is anything crazy OP that they sell on a regular basis.
 
I like the cart idea. Basically the merchant version of a house, rather than him showing up near any npc randomly, such as a sky island....

The biome variants though do feel very modded and unnecessary
 
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