PC NPCs always saying they are alone, not offering pylons

YaBoiJeffery

Official Terrarian
Steam or GOG
Steam
Single Player/Multiplayer
Both
Operating System
Windows 10
Terraria Version
1.4.2.3
Controls Used
Keyboard/Mouse
My brother and I have been playing together on a world that I host and we can't seem to get any NPC to sell pylons because for one reason or another, they're not registering each other and always saying that they are alone.

We have these 4 NPCs all bundled into one awful house
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and they're well within the range for them to be crowded

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but all of them still say they're alone

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In a nearby Desert, we have our Nurse and Arms Dealer right on top of each other, which should give us a pretty high happiness bonus, but they also say they're alone

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which means they won't sell the pylon.


I don't believe it has anything to do with TEdit and this seems to be happening across all of my worlds, I even made a quick test world that I didn't open with it and the NPCs still say they're alone

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I've uploaded the MP world and the test world, maybe someone could look and see if they get the same results?
 

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NPCs will only detect each other if their house flag is 25 blocks or nearer to the other NPC's house flag.
In your case, the guide will only detect the Golfer as a "nearby" NPC, while the Dryad will only detect the Merchant as a nearby NPC (and vice versa).

I quickly tested your world, and making the houses closer together did in fact trigger the unhappiness of being crowded.

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This also seems to be the case with your desert house. Note how the distance from one house flag to another is 26 blocks.
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Source for the info: Terraria Wiki - NPCs
 
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