You can get around the pausing if you boot your world in multiplayer and just play by yourself I thinks.

The reason you want to spread out your NPCs and keep them happy is they can sell something called a "Pylon". This is basically a fast travel point and there's one for most biomes. Also NPCs not only care about how many are in a building, but also who and which biome they live in.

All you need to do better is try new shit man. Sweet build!

I was also kinda hoping her hair would be more wavy too, the messy spikes are really nice too, also AWOOGA!!

Well terraria did recently add official portraits for her!

Did you tell him they reworked the harpoon yet? That made me change my mind

Good luck! A lot has changed!

I was SHREDDING the last of the goblin army with that thing! It's so peak...