The Calamity Mod adds five friendly NPCs to provide the player with a multitude of weapons and buffs in progression. These NPCs only move to the player's house once their requirements are met.
Town NPCs
Pre-Hardmode
NPC | Acquired When | Description | Drops | Defending Weapon | |
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Sea King | The player has defeated the Giant Clam. | Sells a set of water-themed weapons and gear, provides helpful information, and grants the Amidias' Blessing buff. | n/a | Snap Clam |
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Bandit | The player has defeated Skeletron and has at least 1 ![]() |
Sells a variety of rogue weapons and equipment, and has the ability to partially refund the player for their Goblin Tinkerer Reforge purchases. | n/a | Cinquedea |
Hardmode
NPC | Acquired When | Description | Drops | Defending Weapon | |
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Drunk Princess | The player has Fabsol's Vodka in their inventory in Hardmode. | Sells several alcoholic potions and candles which grant unique buffs, and tallies the player's deaths. | n/a | Light Ray |
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Archmage | Cryogen has been defeated. | Sells a set of ice-themed weapons and gear. | n/a | Dark Ice |
Post-Moon Lord
NPC | Acquired When | Description | Drops | Defending Weapon | |
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Brimstone Witch | Supreme Calamitas has been defeated. | Allows the player to Enchant their weapons at a high cost, giving the weapons new abilities but with drawbacks. | n/a | Brimstone Hellblasts |
Nurse Price Scaling
In Revengeance Mode, the price of the Nurse's healing scales with progression in the game. The price for healing will also be multiplied by 5 if any bosses are alive.
Items sold
Some vanilla NPCs have new items sold under certain conditions.
Quotes
Vanilla NPCs will have new additional quotes that can be seen under certain conditions.
NPC Names
Vanilla NPCs can have new additional names in honor of certain Patreon donors.
New names for the Angler:
New names for the Arms Dealer:
New names for the Clothier:
New names for the Dryad:
New names for the Guide:
New names for the Mechanic:
New names for the Nurse:
New names for the Pirate:
New names for the Steampunker:
New names for the Stylist:
New names for the Tax Collector:
New names for the Witch Doctor:
New names for the Wizard:
New names for the Cyborg:
New names for the Goblin Tinkerer:
New names for the Painter:
New names for the Skeleton Merchant:
New names for the Tavernkeep:
New names for the Traveling Merchant:
New names for the Truffle:
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Notes
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- All Town NPCs will have an exclamation mark icon above them when a new item is sold, which can only be removed by interacting with them. They can also be removed completely via configuration options.
- All Calamity and Vanilla Town NPCs gain several changes to their stats.
- They are made immune to every debuff.
- They take as much damage as the player does, instead of taking half of it.
- They gain bonuses to their defense and damage when certain bosses are defeated. Moon Lord and Supreme Calamitas will each increase their defense by 20 and damage by 60% when defeated. Providence, Polterghast, The Devourer of Gods, and Yharon will each increase their defense by 12 and damage by 20% when defeated.
- When killed, the Angler has a 8.3% chance to drop a Golden Fishing Rod in Hardmode.
- If fed to a Trasher, this chance rises to 100%.
Trivia
- Some added NPC quotes include references to other media.
- The Guide's quote related to the Astral Infection is a reference to Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Disturbance in the Force" quote from the original Star Wars film.
- The Merchant's quote involving lamps is a reference to the attraction of moths towards lamps as well as the "moth lamp" meme.
- The Dye Trader's quote asking if the Archmage knows how to "let it go" is an obvious reference to the popular song "Let It Go".
- The Clothier's quote when Moon Lord is alive is a popular quote from the Apollo 13 mission.
- The Clothier's other quote is a reference to the theme of the show Ghostbusters.
- The Cyborg's quote is a line from a famous monologue from the 1982 film Blade Runner.
- The Painter's quote when in the Desert references a famous quote from the film Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones.
- Some patreon-requested NPC names are references to other media.
- The Clothier's donator-requested name "Joeseph Jostar" is a reference to a character of a similar name from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
- The Skeleton Merchant's donator-request names "Papyrus Undertale" and "Sans Undertale" are references to the characters, Papyrus and Sans respectively from the game Undertale.
- The Tavernkeep's donator-requested name "Tim Lockwood" is a reference to a character of the same name from the film adaptations of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
- The Travelling Merchant's donator-requested name "Stan Pines" is a reference to a character of the same name from the television series, Gravity Falls.
- The Wizard's donator-requested name "Merasmus" is a reference to a character of the same name from Team Fortress 2.
- The Arms Dealer's donator-requested name "Barney Calhoun" is a reference to a character of the same name from Half-Life.
- Both the Sea King and the Archmage were both recurring characters in the mod's lore for a long time, even before they were added as Town NPCs.
- The way that the Archmage drops from Cryogen is a reference to the lore.
- The internal variable for finding the Merchant's name is called "angelstatue".
See Also
- Town NPCs on the vanilla wiki.