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Stylist

Stylist in Terraria

Town NPC

The Stylist loves style, gossip, and hair. Aside from performing a miracle makeover, she sells some hair product as well.

Bestiary entry and numbers read from Terraria 1.4.5.8 itself.

Stats

ClassicExpertMaster
Life250250250
Contact damage101010
Defense151515
Knockback resistance50%50%50%
Coin value–––

Where and when it spawns

Biomes
Ocean

Happiness: where it likes to live

BiomesNeighbours
LovesDye Trader
Likesthe OceanPirate, Princess
Dislikesthe SnowTavernkeep
HatesGoblin Tinkerer

Town NPCs charge less when they are happy: the game lowers their prices for loved and liked biomes and neighbours and raises them for disliked and hated ones.

Shop

ItemPriceWhen it is sold
Hair Dye Remover2 gold
Depth Hair Dye5 gold
Biome Hair Dye5 goldSold in Hardmode
Rainbow Hair Dye15 goldSold when several world conditions are met together
Speed Hair Dye5 goldSold in Hardmode and after any mechanical boss is defeated
Martian Hair Dye30 goldSold in Hardmode and after the Martian Madness is defeated
Twilight Hair Dye30 goldSold in Hardmode and after the Martian Madness is defeated
Gentleman's Beard5 gold
Time Hair Dye5 goldNot sold at night during Full Moon, Third Quarter, New Moon and First Quarter; Sold at night during Waning Gibbous, Waning Crescent, Waxing Crescent and Waxing Gibbous

Prices are the base prices, before the happiness discount or surcharge. The conditions were found by running the game's own shop code in every world state, one and two at a time.

Drops

ItemChanceAmountModesCondition
Stylish Scissors12.5% (1 in 8)1All modes

Chances are for one kill, before Luck, Rate of fire or banners change anything. The Modes column says in which difficulties the game lists the drop.

Rescuing the webbed captive from the arachnid dens

The Stylist does not appear automatically; she must be rescued from the subterranean depths. Players can find her bound in spider silk inside a Cavern layer Spider Nest as the Webbed Stylist, surrounded by Wall Creepers and Black Recluses. Carrying a Lifeform Analyzer helps detect her presence among the cobwebs. Cutting her free allows her to move into any vacant town room.

She defends her salon with sharp Stylish Scissors. If defeated in battle, she drops the Stylish Scissors at a 12.5% rate. She weathers danger with 250 health, shielded by 15 defense, inflicting 10 contact damage against attacking arachnids.

Salon services and reactive hair dyes

Her primary service allows players to customize their hair style and hair color for a small coin fee. She also sells an extensive line of specialty reactive Hair Dyes: Life Hair Dye (which changes tint based on current health), Mana Hair Dye, Depth Hair Dye (shifting tone based on underground elevation), Biome Hair Dye, Money Hair Dye, and vibrant Rainbow Hair Dye, alongside Hair Dye Remover.

These reactive hair dyes provide real-time visual status cues during exploration and multiplayer sessions without cluttering the screen with buff icons. Her scissors can also shear cobwebs instantly during exploration.

Ocean salon retreats and salon dye styling

Having escaped the horrors of dark underground spider nests, the Stylist treasures the open air and bright sunlight of the coastline. The preference table above displays her full biome ratings and companion scores.

Housing her coastal salon by the Ocean near preferred neighbors reduces the coin cost of custom haircuts and specialized animated hair dyes while powering the Ocean Pylon. In combat, she retaliates with the Stylish Scissors, dropping them at a rate of 12.5% if slain.

Aesthetic customization and character identity

Her styling parlor allows adventurers to refresh their avatar looks across progression milestones. Combining distinct hairstyles with biome dyes and vanity accessories lets players coordinate thematic aesthetics to match late-game armor sets and personal fashion tastes throughout both single-player journeys and multiplayer worlds.

Trivia

  • Her Stylish Scissors deal extra damage to cobwebs and shear them instantly without tool delay.
  • Hair dyes purchased from her shop dynamically update during multiplayer sessions.

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