**GptNPCs adds AI-powered dialogue to Terraria town NPCs. Talk to any NPC using natural language and receive contextual responses.**

**Supported AI Providers**

- Google Gemini

- OpenAI (GPT-4, GPT-4o)

- Ollama (local models)

- Anthropic (Claude)

- Any OpenAI-compatible API (LM Studio, etc.)

**Features**

- Dynamic Conversations: NPCs respond based on world state, time of day, weather, events, and nearby characters

- Persistent Memory: NPCs remember past conversations and player relationships

- Mood System: NPC mood changes based on housing quality, crowding, and interactions

- Actions: NPCs can follow players, guard locations, teleport, and adjust shop prices

- Emotes: NPCs display emote bubbles during conversation

- Shop Integration: NPCs know their inventory and can negotiate prices

- Public Facts: NPCs can declare world events that other NPCs will know about

- Message Pagination: Long responses split into pages with navigation arrows

- Multiplayer Support: Full server/client synchronization

**Localization**

English, Russian, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish

**Configuration**

Set your API key and preferred model in the mod config. Custom endpoint URLs supported for self-hosted solutions.

**INSTALLATION AND SETUP**

Choose an AI provider

You can choose between Google Gemini (Free) or OpenAI (Paid)

**Option A: Google Gemini**

Go to: https://aistudio.google.com/  

Log in and click “Get API key” → “Create API key in new project”

Copy the key

**Option B: OpenAI (ChatGPT)**

Go to: https://platform.openai.com/api-keys  

Create a new secret key

**Mod Configuration**

In Terraria: Workshop → Manage Mods → Config

Open GptNPCs settings

Provider: Select Gemini or OpenAI

API Key: Paste your key

Model Name: Leave default (gemini-2.5-flash) or specify a specific model

Language: Specify the language for NPC responses

Additional API Keys: You can add more tokens to reduce load

**Hotkey**

Settings → Controls → Keybindings

Assign a key to “GPT-NPC Dialogue” (Default: V)

**HOW TO USE**

- Hover your cursor over a town NPC

- Press the assigned key (V)

- Write your message

- Press Enter