The travelling merchant is an npc that arrives in some days and sells certain items. He does not have a set house to teleport to; he normally goes into existing NPC’s houses. However, in certain cases, he can spawn in the lake directly above the player spawnpoint, and proceed to enter the room within it. When this happens, he is unable to naturally go off-screen because there is physically no way for him to exit. At the same time, there will always be someone at spawn, so he can’t go outside of their screen. Using monsters to try to kill him has also proven to be extremely difficult, because of the lack of the ability for most others to cooperate, and the fact that he has a gun and is able to naturally regenerate health. Because of this, no new Travelling Merchants will appear, and that means no new items can be sold. This can stop the chance certain TM-exclusive items to be sold at all for a very long time.
Edit: With the recent map update, it seems that this is not required anymore.
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