Santa Claus

Type	NPC
AI Type	Passive AI
Damage	10
Max Life	250
Defense	15
KB Resist	50%

This is a Town NPC. A House may be required in order for it to appear.

Santa Claus is a Hardmode / pre-Hardmode NPC vendor that arrives after the Frost Legion has been defeated, but only during the Christmas season ( December 15–December 31 / December 1–January 15), after which he dies. He sells many Christmas-themed decorations and vanities during this time.

Santa Claus will defend himself against nearby enemies by throwing baubles.

Items sold[edit | edit source]

Inventory
Item	Cost	Availability
Santa Hat	150000*15	Always available.
Santa Shirt	150000*15	Always available.
Santa Pants	150000*15	Always available.
Christmas Tree	2500*25	Always available.
Red Light	500*5	Always available.
Green Light	500*5	Always available.
Blue Light	500*5	Always available.
Star Topper 1	500*5	Always available.
Star Topper 2	500*5	Always available.
Star Topper 3	500*5	Always available.
505 Topper	5	Always available.
Bow Topper	500*5	Always available.
White Garland	500*5	Always available.
White and Red Garland	500*5	Always available.
Red Garland	500*5	Always available.
Red and Green Garland	500*5	Always available.
Green Garland	500*5	Always available.
Green and White Garland	500*5	Always available.
Multicolored Bulb	500*5	Always available.
Red Bulb	500*5	Always available.

Inventory
Item	Cost	Availability
Yellow Bulb	500*5	Always available.
Green Bulb	500*5	Always available.
Red and Green Bulb	500*5	Always available.
Yellow and Green Bulb	500*5	Always available.
Red and Yellow Bulb	500*5	Always available.
White Bulb	500*5	Always available.
White and Red Bulb	500*5	Always available.
White and Yellow Bulb	500*5	Always available.
White and Green Bulb	500*5	Always available.
Multicolored Lights	500*5	Always available.
Red Lights	500*5	Always available.
Green Lights	500*5	Always available.
Blue Lights	500*5	Always available.
Yellow Lights	500*5	Always available.
Red and Yellow Lights	500*5	Always available.
Red and Green Lights	500*5	Always available.
Yellow and Green Lights	500*5	Always available.
Blue and Green Lights	500*5	Always available.
Red and Blue Lights	500*5	Always available.
Blue and Yellow Lights	500*5	Always available.

Quotes[edit | edit source]

"Ho ho ho, and a bottle of... Egg Nog!"
"What? You thought I wasn't real?"
"Care to bake me some cookies?"

During a Party:

"Come now, you didn't think I only celebrated on Christmas did you?"

Tips[edit | edit source]

Christmas can be "activated" by setting the device's date to any date within the respective Christmas timespan.
- Change the computer's date to any day between December 15th and 31st.
- Disconnect from Xbox Live / PSN and change the console time.
- Disconnect from automatic date/time updates and set the time to any day in December. Note that this does not work for some devices.
- Go to "System Settings" and set the date there.

If a change of the device's time is undesired, applications like "RunAsDate" allow launching Terraria with a changed time and date.

Changing the time back to normal will cause him to die at the next sunrise.
- If he is spawned in while it is not Christmas via TShock or similar third-party software, he will die instantly.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

Santa Claus sells 39 items at one time, which is more than any other NPC excluding the post-Golem Tavernkeep, who has 40 items available at one time.
It is not possible to buy back items sold to this NPC since the last item slot cannot hold any sold items.
In the Console version, he has a description in the housing section saying "A jolly old fellow".
"Ho ho ho, and a bottle of... Egg Nog!" is a reference to the fictional sea song Dead Man's Chest, originally from Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Treasure Island which was first published in 1883. The song contains the verse "Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum".
- The Pirate also makes this reference, saying, "Yo ho ho and a bottle of....blinkroots!"
He has the least number of possible names, having only one.