Everything about the Skeleton Merchant

Skeleton Merchant 101. How to find him and what he sells.

How to find the Skeleton Merchant

The Skeleton Merchant is an prehardmode NPC that will not move into one of your available houses. Instead, he spawns randomly in the underground, in the Cavern layer. He is one of the two NPCs without a map icon (second being the Old Man guarding the Dungeon), so constant map checking to find him is not an option. Lifeform Analyzer will not detect him, though Hunter Potion will highlight him. The only sign there is a Skeleton Merchant nearby is lack of enemies. He counts as 7 town NPCs (3 are needed to stop monsters from spawning around them), enabling critters like bunnies to spawn in that area. It's not exclusive only to him - if you find a bunny in the underground, there's a pretty big chance there will be an NPC nearby.

The Skeleton Merchant will throw bones to defend himself from nearby non-skeletal enemies. He does not attack skeletal enemies, nor will they harm him via contact damage. Skeleton archers, however, may shoot him by accident if the player is behind the merchant.

Items sold by the Skeleton Merchant

The Skeleton Merchant can offer different items depending on the moon phase in your world. A new moon phase starts at 4:30 AM. Items exclusive to buy during moon phases CAN be bought during the day too.





Strange Brew - 5 , Available during
Lesser Healing Potion - 3, Available during
Spelunker Glowstick - 1 at night, 50 at
Glowstick - 10, Available during the day if there was NO

Bone Torch/ Torch - 1/ 50, Available depending on whether the time is odd or even in in-game minutes (real-life seconds)
Bone Arrow - 15, Available during
Wooden Arrow - 5, Available during
Blue Counterweight - 5, Available during
Red Counterweight - 5, available during
Purple Counterweight - 5, Available during
Green Counterweight - 5, Available during

Bomb - 3, Always available

Rope - 10, Always available
Gradient - 20, Available during HARDMODE
Format C - 20, Available during HARDMODE

Yoyo Glove - 50, Available during HARDMODE
Slap Hand - 25, Available during HARDMODE Blood Moon
Magic Lantern - 10, Available during NIGHT

[chimaera.]

Sad.. this IS the wikia. I checked :(

[silly being]

OK!

[Neon WUF]

looks good but is it true

[I'm With Stupid -->]

Doesn't work

[sunshine lol]

'how to move left' is a much better guide than a copypaste

[Lime]

Thanks for putting an actual guide up instead of something like "How to move left", Very helpful even if it is from the wiki since I don't have to open the wiki.

[dev12]

This is a copy of the real Wiki. L A Z Y

[outis the outis guy]

so lazy tbh

[Wizxrddd]

lmao they literally fucking crtl c ctrl v'd the wiki and didnt change it at all

[Slushy]

This is a copy paste of the wiki