Stylist being killed in spider cave

[TristB]

I'm having this problem where the stylist keep getting killed by the spiders in the spider cave and not respawning. It has happened both of the 2 times in a row when I found her in the spider caves and I think I have traveled into every spider cave in my world. Does anybody know how to fix this?

[Maplezombiex]

just gotta save her quickly as soon as she pops up on your radar

[TristB]

I've tried to save her as fast as possible, my pickaxe isn't fast enough and they do more damage because I'm playing in expert mode

[Maplezombiex]

an idea of what you can do, is predig spider biomes. like make an accessible walkway or even dig a nice gap to be able to use your hooks. if youre still rocking a pickaxe and not a digging claw or dcu, youre still too early in the game, the stylist doesnt really add anything completely necessary, shes just for aesthetics and late game collecting. so you can skip her right now altogether

[TristB]

I was using the molten pickaxe, I just like to get all prehardmode npcs before I get to hard mode. I'll skip her right now.

[prpl_mage]

You can enter and change the layout of the spider cave if you want.
Just mine around to create some larger areas here and there so it won't be so cramped.
I think the thing is that she only spawns on spider cave background, and there's usually plenty of that.
When you're done, just sit around or go back and forth with it being on screen/off screen, preferably with a lifeform analyser and then get in there and wreak havoc on all the spiders so you get to her first. As long as you speak her before she dies it's cool.
Even if she dies a new one can spawn a minute later or so.

I can't remember but pretty sure she counts as a rare spawn so a gnome would perhaps help a little?

[King Narwhal]

Originally posted by TristB56:

I was using the molten pickaxe, I just like to get all prehardmode npcs before I get to hard mode. I'll skip her right now.

Would not recommend doing this if you want all of the NPCs. The Hardmode spider cave enemies are so much worse than what you are facing now, and will just kill the Stylist faster since they'd have very high damage.

[E]

One thing I do when saving bound NPCs is to build blocks around them IF I can reach them before talking to them so they don't accidentally fall into water/lava and drown/burn or get killed by mobs.
If you haven't saved them yet, one thing to do is start searching for them at night with a hunter potion to make spotting them easy. Once you free them, just teleport away or move one screen away from them, they automatically teleport to the nearest house available provided you have empty housing for them where you can interact with them in peace because they got magic NPC teleportation skills at night.

Other than that, if you've saved them and they died, they'll arrive the next day provided there is empty housing for them, no events are going on and no other NPCs are set to re/spawn before them.
i.e Guide respawning after summoning WoF.