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Pylons are furniture items that appear as a large stone or crystal hovering and rotating above a biome-themed stand. They allow a player to teleport to any other pylon by pressing the ⚷ Open / Activate button on them, which will open the fullscreen map, and selecting the other pylon there. Pylons can be obtained by purchasing from NPCs if they are happy enough and in their specific biome.
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•Internal Item ID: 4875, 4876, 4916–4921, 4951
•Internal Tile ID: 597
Pylons are furniture items that appear as a large stone or crystal hovering and rotating above a biome-themed stand. They allow a player to teleport to any other pylon by pressing the ⚷ Interact button on them, which will open the fullscreen map, and selecting the other pylon there. When two or more pylons are placed, they form the Pylon Network.
Most pylons, with the exception of the Universal Pylon, can be purchased from NPCs when the following conditions apply:
•The NPC is a "vendor" that normally sells items, other than the Traveling Merchant and the Skeleton Merchant:
•The vendor NPC must be happy, with a sale modifier of 90% or better.
•Remember that NPC relationships are not always symmetrical, but only one vendor needs to be happy enough to sell the pylon. The NPC they like (who helps make them happy) does not even need to be a vendor.
•The "solitude" bonus gets most of the way there, granted by having at most one other NPC within 25 tiles, and at most three more within 120 tiles. Given this, it is enough to place a vendor in a biome they like, or with an NPC they like, while avoiding crowding or any biome or neighbor that they dislike.
•In a more crowded area, bonuses can be stacked; e.g. an NPC who loves their biome, and at least likes their only close neighbor (or vice versa), can be happy enough even if there are too many NPCs within 120 tiles to get the solitude bonus.
•As with all biome-specific vendor items, NPCs sell pylons based on the biome the player is in, not the biome the NPC is in.
•Similarly, pylons function based on the biome the pylon is in, not the biome the NPCs allowing it to function are in.
•NPCs living in the Underworld count their current biome towards the Cavern Pylon, despite technically being in another biome.
•NPCs will not sell pylons if there is no available space in their shop.
•One example is the Tavernkeep after Golem is defeated, he will stop selling pylons due to his shop inventory being entirely filled with unique offerings.
•Another example is the Painter during Christmas. Although he still has one empty shop slot, there will always be an empty slot for players to rebuy sold items, thus he will not sell pylons.
•Pylons can be used during the Lunar Event to traverse the world to combat the various pillars. This exception does not include Moon Lord, and they are still unusable during other invasions/boss fights.
•Early access to all pre-hardmode pylons can be gained from the first NPCs available without defeating a single boss: The Arms Dealer with The Nurse sells all pylons.(This includes the hallow Pylon if you are playing Celebrationmk10 seed).
•The Pylon Network can be supplemented by several other forms of teleportation or transportation, all of which do work during boss fights and invasions:
•Each player can use a Recall Potion, Magic Mirror, or Cell Phone or Shellphone to teleport to their own spawn point or Oceans, or The Underworld. (Use while fighting the Wall of Flesh will result in an instant death unless you teleport to the center of the underworld).
•The Shellphone gives access to both Oceans (use once for the currently more distant Ocean, then again for the other Ocean). It will take the player to the furthest point with a solid block or platform at the surface. It also gives access to the center of the Underworld (it may be necessary to build a platform there).
•In Hardmode, each pylon plus the three conch landing points, can be used as the hub of a local Teleporter network.
•While pylons will still hover and rotate when the game is paused, they will only hover when the game is "tabbed out".
•Pylons resemble the Protoss building of the same name in StarCraft.
•This is also referenced in the Universal Pylon's tooltip.
•The maximum price for a non-universal Pylon is 9. This is because even though all non-universal pylons have a base value of 10, due to the fact that the NPC that one is buying from must have at least a 90% price modifier from happiness for the NPC to sell the pylon, a pylon can normally not be bought for its base value; however on the remix seed and everything seed npc happiness is disabled, and thus pylons will be sold for its base 10 gold value.
PC version
•Desktop 1.4.4.2: Fixed Smart Cursor trying to place Boulders on pylons.
•Desktop 1.4.4:
•Increased the maximum range where pylons are usable from (it should be impossible to be in range of opening a pylon and not be able to teleport with it).
•Can be used during Moon Lord's summoning sequence.
•Desktop 1.4.3.3:
- 10 (Universal: 1)
- 01*
- ✔️ (3 wide × 4 high)
- 15 (Very fast)
Beside sulfurous sea, no npc seems to like calamity biomes, so the best way to get the pylons is just by having one npc with an other one he loves, or two npcs he likes. I got the sunken pylon by putting an house for the nurse and for the arms dealer in the sunken sea
Both Sunken and Sulphurous Pylons can be gotten pretty early by using Angler + Amidias, most likely. Angler + Pirate works later on. For the Crags Pylon, any two NPCs that like each other should work. Goblin + Engineer should do the trick.
Dec 17, 2021 · Since Pylon setups require at least 2 NPC living together in an area it is worth noting that only ONE of the NPCs needs to be happy in order for the Pylon to be available. Below is a simple Pylon guide by yeems420 on the best/efficient NPC setups to obtain all Pylons. NOTE: This particular Pylon guide involves the use of 3 NPCs instead of 2 ...
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an npc can sell any pylon except their hated biome's as long as they have a "loved" neighbor and no overcrowding penalty. if they only have "liked" neighbors they will only be able to sell the pylon for their liked biome. for a placed pylon to be functional it only needs any 2 NPCs living nearby (but need 3 npc to register as a 'town')
