Stop monsters from spawning inside my house [FIXED]

[LittleRedQuinn]

Monsters are still spawning inside my house, even though I've placed all walls myself (so there are only player placed walls). They don't spawn in the NPC rooms, but they do spawn in my storage rooms / farms etc and it's getting really annoying. Any idea how to stop them from spawning inside my house?

[LonelyAndLookin4Fun]

1: More illumination.
2: More walls.

[LittleRedQuinn]

The rooms have enough light sources and have a full player-placed background, I checked multiple times for any gaps but there aren't any

[Stako]

the answer is simple you cant make dirt or stone walls

[LittleRedQuinn]

If a house is made of player placed walls, then enemies shouldn't spawn. If you made dirt or stone walls yourself it should be fine. Also I never said I used dirt or stone walls.

[Stako]

1. did you leave a gap anyware 2.did you mix walls (i think that could be a threat) 3.was it blood moon?

[Florganborg]

i think you have to have the house sutible.

[LittleRedQuinn]

I didn't leave a gap anywhere, some rooms have mixed walls and the monsters always spawn even though it's not a moon (during the day slimes spawn as well).
And does the room have to be sutible for NPC's? Because that would be stupid, because my storage room is for storage and my farms are for farming and not for housing. I thought I read somewhere that player-placed walls stopped monsters from spawning but I guess not so I'm searching for a way to make them stop. Maybe I should just try to make the rooms NPC sutible, but it still wouldn't make sense.

[Nachtana]

I don't know how big your house is. But is it bad to have a Monster in a farm? Most of them are dead after one hit.
But i agree with you, Monsters in the living room is not good. I solved this Problem and made more than one house. One for storage and crafting and a nice none for the NPCs further away. As long you don't see your house, nothing will spawn there.

[Medra]

Post a screenshot of your house, maybe we can find the error.

[LittleRedQuinn]

My whole house is made of blue dungeon brick + blue dungeon brick walls / blue dungeon slab walls / glass walls / grey brick walls. I've placed all walls myself, didn't mine them myself though because it was way too much work but I placed them myself because I didn't want monsters to spawn (I thought player placed walls prevent monster spawning).

The NPC's are living above the ground, the storage rooms and the farms are underground (but above level). Monsters (slimes/zombies) can spawn in the area where the NPC's live, but not inside their house (they will spawn in an undecorated house).

Monsters in a farm isn't that bad, but it's getting really annoying to get monsters everywhere in your house instead of outside them. And because slimes and zombies can spawn in the rooms, it means other monsters can spawn there too like monsters from the Goblin Army, Frost Legion, Pirate Army or even the Solar Eclipse which I definetly don't want since I've made defences for them and don't want to fight them inside my house (or blow stuff up, like Clowns like to do).

I really don't know where the error is, because an empty house (but with walls) can spawn monster inside but as soon as that same house has a table, a chair and a light source and thus becomes NPC suitable it won't spawn monsters.

Player placed walls should prevent monster spawning, but since they don't, I guess I'll just have to make every room NPC suitible

Though I think that with the new blue dungeon slab wall (and some other new walls), the player-placed thing doesn't prevent monsters from spawning anymore since monsters could spawn in my Truffle-house as well (completly made out of mushroom walls etc and was NPC suitable, I even placed blocks on each side of the door so he couldn't let monsters in but the monsters still got in because they just spawned inside).

[✪ CMP]

Clowns no longer destroy blocks, if I remember correctly.

I think it might be that you used too much dungeon bricks which can make a mini-dungeon..
If its not that I wouldn't know whats causing it and can only say maybe build your house elsewhere or make another world..

[LittleRedQuinn]

Yeah I know Clowns don't destroy blocks anymore, but if one of those bombs blow up near furniture then you can go replace your furniture.

And too much dungeon brick doesn't create a mini dungeon, since I don't see any dungeon enemies, don't hear dungeon music etc. and during the day slimes spawn and during the night zombies. Building my house elswhere isn't going to work and making a new world won't work too, because I think the monsters will still spawn (I had it in my other world too, had a smaller house but they still spawned inside of it while they didn't had that before 1.2 and that world had a truffle house too which was NPC suitable and the Truffle lived inside it but the monsters still spawned inside too).

I still think the player-placed walls don't prevent monster spawning anymore since one of the updates after 1.2, might be bugged or something so I hope they'll fix it.

[✪ CMP]

Then I really think its bugged, I started Terraria just after to check and none of my worlds seem to have monsters spawning inside my bases..

[LittleRedQuinn]

My base is pretty big, I can never see the left and right at the same time or the up and down at the same time and I spend a lot of time inside my house decorating so monsters have enough time to spawn. But yeah, it might be bugged so I'll just hope for a fix

[Mayate]

Originally posted by LittleRedQuinn:

My base is pretty big, I can never see the left and right at the same time or the up and down at the same time and I spend a lot of time inside my house decorating so monsters have enough time to spawn. But yeah, it might be bugged so I'll just hope for a fix

The reason why monsters are spawning inside your base is because your base is too big. Anything bigger than the screen allows them to appear inside or near the vicinity of your base. Even if your base is protected from wraiths, they can still spawn inside your base if you are moving around within the confines of said base.

No amount of dungeon bricks will create an artificial dungeon biome. You can only do so by placing bricks on naturally placed dungeon walls.