Resolved My Dryad dissapeared (Mobile)

[Renichelle]

I FINALLY defeat the Eye of Cthulu, after about 12 tries (I'm not exaggeratiing,) and my Dryad immediately appears. But since Terraria sometimes randomly crashes on my phone, I saved and quit just incase it decided to crash while I'm meeting a new NPC. But when I loaded the game back open, she was gone. The map had shown that she'd settled in my snowy biome, but now she's not anywhere in my world. Please don't tell me that I have to refight the Eye of Cthulu.

 

[Renichelle]

I FINALLY defeat the Eye of Cthulu, after about 12 tries (I'm not exaggeratiing,) and my Dryad immediately appears. But since Terraria sometimes randomly crashes on my phone, I saved and quit just incase it decided to crash while I'm meeting a new NPC. But when I loaded the game back open, she was gone. The map had shown that she'd settled in my snowy biome, but now she's not anywhere in my world. Please don't tell me that I have to refight the Eye of Cthulu.

Ok I went ahead and defeated the Eye of Cthulhu AGAIN and she still hasn't returned. I need guidance please.

 

[Travlordian01⚡️]

Ok I went ahead and defeated the Eye of Cthulhu AGAIN and she still hasn't returned. I need guidance please.

Do you have any open houses? Does her face appear in The housing menu? She might not be able to get in because of no housing.

 

[Renichelle]

Do you have any open houses? Does her face appear in The housing menu? She might not be able to get in because of no housing.

I have plenty of houses. A lot actually. With every biome I've discovered, I've gone ahead and built multiple rooms. I looked on my map as soon as it said she'd arrived and saw she'd moved into the 2nd floor of my snow biome house. It's a 3 story appartment and it is built correctly: doors, tables, light. I don't think it's too close to the Crimson either.

And no her face is not in the housing menu.

 

[Renichelle]

Oh wait. She reappeared.
Guess I just needed to be patient.

 

[Renichelle]

Thanks for trying to help.

 

[ps3wolvrine14]

Just to make you aware, once a NPC requirements are met they randomly spawn in to a randomly chossen vaild house around 4:30am, if you have multiple NPCs to spawn in (say invasion at main base and 5 npcs there and they die) they might spread out a bit throughout the morning hours.
The only difference is the "bound" NPCs these NPCs will not unlock themselves unless you find and untie them. (Same for the 2 sleeping npcs. Tho Mobile doesn't have the 2nd yet)
If a bound/sleeping NPC gets killed you have to wait until they spawn again and talk to them.
You don't have to grind a boss to unlock a NPC.