Why do zombies spawn inside my house?

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whyyyyyyyyyyy?

[Flamin Jesus]

screenshot?

[Pogonic]

u have walls in the background right?

[DANIZÃO in the Mirage]

Originally posted by pogonic:

u have walls in the background right?

cough* sorry, this was my first time playing

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but yeah, tnx man

[Flamin Jesus]

Heh, also remember that dirt walls DON'T work, use wood or stone to start out with (Most/all later game materials also work).

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tnx a lot :D

[flamedance58]

Originally posted by MastussMG:

Originally posted by pogonic:

u have walls in the background right?

cough* sorry, this was my first time playing

Lol no worries, but that's the basics of making a "house". Or at least what the game considers to be a sealed room. It must have walls and backwall that you placed yourself otherwise it's considered spawnable areas.
This is important as these are the only places that NPCs and Beds can be placed/housed. Very important when you want to build a lil shack to respawn at if you're fighting a boss that's very hard and you die a lot.

Do note also that certain enemies can spawn outside but go through blocks like Wraiths and Reapers. Other can shoot through walls like the Mushroom Plant Monsters that shoot spores through walls.

[MuncleUnky]

You need to make wood walls at a workbench to use as your background within your house. Any player placed background walls will keep enemies from spawning in that spot.

[MuncleUnky]

Originally posted by Flamin Jesus:

Heh, also remember that dirt walls DON'T work, use wood or stone to start out with (Most/all later game materials also work).

Wrong. If a player places dirt walls him/herself, then it's fine. The naturally occuring ones will have to be knocked down first.

[Flamin Jesus]

Originally posted by flamedance58:

Do note also that certain enemies can spawn outside but go through blocks like Wraiths and Reapers. Other can shoot through walls like the Mushroom Plant Monsters that shoot spores through walls.

Also note that all of those are hardmode enemies you won't have to worry about for quite a while :P

[Flamin Jesus]

Originally posted by Alien Architect:

Originally posted by Flamin Jesus:

Heh, also remember that dirt walls DON'T work, use wood or stone to start out with (Most/all later game materials also work).

Wrong. If a player places dirt walls him/herself, then it's fine.

Then they changed it, used to be dirt walls didn't work, regardless of how they got there.

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and if the area is dark, like in minecraft? would it be a spawnable area?

[MuncleUnky]

Originally posted by Flamin Jesus:

Originally posted by Alien Architect:

Wrong. If a player places dirt walls him/herself, then it's fine.

Then they changed it, used to be dirt walls didn't work, regardless of how they got there.

It's been like this since 1.0.6.

[MuncleUnky]

Originally posted by MastussMG:

and if the area is dark, like in minecraft? would it be a spawnable area?

Light or dark makes no difference. A wall placed by the player is the only thing that will prevent spawning of enemies in your home.

[flamedance58]

Originally posted by MastussMG:

and if the area is dark, like in minecraft? would it be a spawnable area?

I don't remember, but NPC require a Chair, Table, AND a Light source to live in a room so you're going to want to keep it lit anyways.

[Edit] Oh and having NPCs living in your house also lower spawn rates around the house so you'll notice less and less Zombies and Eyeballs trying to bump your walls and doors down.
-This doesn't effect special events like Blood Moons,etc however.