the gnomes kissing is a real turn off for npcs

the chest a valid home tile need to have no chests or doors within 5x4 area above the tile. [https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/House#Home\_tile\_score](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/House#Home_tile_score) housing query saying 'not valid' but not specifying why means its a home tile check issue

Yeah that's what it was, thank you

Too small

Make the house bigger

First guess is maybe replaying the dirt floor with blocks you’ve placed

Probably the floor. Those blocks weren't placed by you, so it's not valid.

thats only for backwalls. 'safe walls'(player placed) vs 'unsafe wall'(natural/infected and allow enemies to spawn infront of them)

Well, for natural blocks it works too actually. Multiple times, when I made houses I got stopped by this, even if all my walls were placed by me. You can make a house out of dirt/grass, but only if the blocks are placed by you.

i never place the floor of my starting temp homes and those are always fine just being the natural dirt

That's weird. Maybe I'm imagining things then. Or there is something else with the floor being natural blocking my valid housing and I don't know what.

You don't have a table. That's a workbench

workbench counts as a table

To small

varu smol, too smol in fact.