The Map page marks the Town NPCs of your world. Each one has its own head, the same small face the game draws on its map. An NPC that has no house reads Has no home. Not checked on 1.4.5.8 as of 13 November 2026: whether Town NPCs show on a Vanilla server.
Show the Town NPCs
- Open the Map page of the server.
- In the panel on the left of the map, open Map settings.
- Under Show, tick Town NPCs (1). The number beside it is how many the world has. It is on by default.
- Town NPCs
Each NPC is marked on the map with its head. Its title reads like “Andrew the Guide”: the name, then the kind.
What the marker tells you
- The name and kind. Each Town NPC in a world has its own name.
- The head. The heads are the game’s own map heads. They come from the Terraria Wiki, and the page says so with a link under the player list.
- The place. Where the NPC is on the map.
- Has no home. The NPC is in the world but has no house assigned.
NPC homes are private, like chests and signs. A role that does not allow the private map does not see them. See chests and signs.
Why the map can look old
The map is drawn from the world’s save, so a house or NPC that is new shows after the next save. The panel draws it again when the game saves, at most every 5 minutes. So a new NPC, or a house you just built, shows after the next save and redraw. See the Map page for how the drawing works.
If it does not work
- There are no NPCs. The server has no world yet. It makes one at its first start. Start it, then open the page again. A world with no Town NPCs also shows none.
- The map says it is being drawn. A small world takes a few seconds. A large one takes longer. Wait and the markers appear.
- An NPC is missing. The world may not have saved since it arrived. Save the world, wait for the redraw, and look again.
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