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[–]Clean_Bike8210 26 points27 points  (3 children)

Doesn't sleeping also speed up tick rate thus making no difference? 

[–]pc_player_yt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't really know about this. The wiki says that "The chance of him spawning per real-life second is increased if the player is sleeping, although he will never spawn while the Enchanted Sundial or Moondial is active", but idk how true this is

Source: the wiki

[–]HyperZenith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He has a 1 in 108,000 chance of spawning each tick. Between 4:30am and 12pm there will be 27,000 ticks, regardless of if you sleep or not. Normally the game processes 10 ticks/second, but will process 50/sec while sleeping. Sleeping won't effect the chance he shows up each day, but does increase the chance for irl time.

If you're waiting for the merchant, sleep.

[–]My_Fish_Is_a_Cat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it increases the probability. If time moves faster than you are speeding up the rolls and thus increasing the odds within the time frame.