I have a problem with this too. I am in journeys mode with tons of extra empty houses that I do know are good enough for npcs, but none are spawning.Not even respawning. The guide hasn’t even respawned from the WOF so i cant even fight wof anymore.it’s been many days and nobody is spawning. Please help.
Edit: I SOLVED IT! I broke something reslly early where a goblin army soawned byt it just wasn’t existing. I went to my sky platform to kill wyverns and the goblins just appeared. Its not that i wasnt at the location of the army before, as i built the sky platform in hardmode and the glitched army attacked in prehardmode. Its fixed but instill don’t understand what happened. Its kind of amusing as the entire sped up ingame day all I saw was “someone has arrived” the entire time.