Party

A Party is an event that can occur randomly, or be activated manually using a Party Center. Parties are mainly visual, having little functional effect on gameplay, with the exception of some exclusive vanity and novelty items available from the Clothier and Party Girl. A Party lasts until 7:30PM, and if spawned randomly, begins at 4:30AM.
A Party has a random chance of occurring at any particular dawn ("thrown" by one to three NPCs), without the need for a placed Party Center. See below for the detailed conditions. When NPCs throw a Party, any placed Party Center activates, a burst of confetti appears on each NPC, and a pink status message displays: "". At its conclusion, the Party automatically deactivates with a puff of smoke on all NPCs and another pink status message: "". A Party can still be re-initiated manually afterward.
During a Party:
* All NPCs except the Tax Collector, , Old Man, and Skeleton Merchant wear Party Hats, including and the Traveling Merchant.
* Balloons continually rise in the background.
* Bunnies also wear Party Hats (but drop only normal Bunnies when caught).
**Gem Bunnies that spawn during a Party are replaced with normal Bunnies (with hats).
* The Clothier and Party Girl sell additional Party-exclusive novelty and vanity items.
*If the Party occurs naturally, the Party Girl will give the player a when spoken to. She will only give this item the first time she is spoken to after the Party begins, even on Multiplayer worlds.
*The Cool Slime is able to move in during naturally generated parties.
* Most NPCs display unique quotes when spoken to.
== Contents ==
=== NPC quotes ===
Most NPCs display unique quotes during Parties when spoken to:
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== Notes ==
* Parties thrown randomly by NPCs can only occur under the following conditions:
** The last random party was thrown more than 5–10 days ago (the actual cooldown period is chosen at random when a random Party initiates).
** The Party Girl is present.
** There are at least five eligible town NPCs present, i.e. those who can throw a Party. Eligible NPCs include the Traveling Merchant, but not , the Old Man, and the Skeleton Merchant.
: A Party Center can be used to initiate a Party at any time, regardless of the criteria above (e.g. even if there are no NPCs in the world at all).
* The names of the NPCs as well as the number of NPCs who throw a Party are determined randomly:
** With 13 or more eligible town NPCs present, there is a chance for three NPCs, a chance for two NPCs, and a chance for one NPC to throw the Party.
** With fewer than 13 town NPCs present, the chances are for two NPCs and for one NPC. It is impossible for three NPCs to throw the Party in this case.
* The status messages if one and two NPCs throw a Party are as follows:
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* A Party will immediately start upon creation of a world or a Zenith world.
* Parties affect all NPCs (except the Tax Collector, Old Man, and Skeleton Merchant), regardless of their location in the world.
* The background balloons effect wears off if the player is more than 47tiles away from any Party Center or NPC.
* The party will not end if all NPCs are killed.
== Achievements ==
== Trivia ==
* The event was introduced to celebrate Terraria's 5th birthday, May 16, 2016.
* This is the only event that is peaceful, i.e., does not cause more enemies to spawn. In the , Lantern Nights and Meteor Showers are also peaceful events.
* The Party Girl is the only NPC to have two unique Party quotes.
* Even though the Tax Collector does not wear a Party Hat or says anything related to Parties, he can still throw a Party.
* Parties are the only event that allow seeing the hair of some NPCs, most noticeably the Dye Trader.
* The Goblin Tinkerer's quote references "", a party game.
* Even though the Pirate's quote is on eating so much cake his beard is white, his beard in his sprite is the same color as always.
* The Truffle's quote is a joke on the words mushroom and much room.
== History ==
== References ==
Category:Random events