Doors



Doors are furniture items that prevent enemies from entering an area when closed. Players can open them by pressing the on them. Doors can be placed in any space so long as it is exactly three blocks high, with ceiling and floor blocks.

Friendly NPCs will open and close doors during the day as they wander about.

Enemies that follow the Fighter AI can open doors, with a few exceptions. Additionally, Goblin Peons can remove doors entirely on contact, while Angry Bones and Butchers can open them with one hit.

Doors can also be opened and closed via Wires. If you put wire on the door's hinge, then the wiring will toggle the door's closed/open state upon activation, but if you put wires on the side tiles, where the door opens, then the wiring will only close the door.

The Lihzahrd Door occurs naturally at the entrance to the Jungle Temple, and initially requires a Temple Key to open. Once unlocked, it can be freed with a pickaxe or drill, and placed again by the player like any other door. Lihzahrd Doors can also be crafted, but their crafting station can only be obtained after opening the initial door, and the ingredients require the Picksaw (or better) to mine, which is dropped by Golem. Destroying the blocks either above or below a locked Lihzahrd Door does not destroy it.

Apart from the standard doors listed here, there also exist Trap Doors and Tall Gates, which behave similarly. Every block in the game can also be used like a (Switch-toggled) door via Actuators.

There are currently 39 /  30 /  22 /  19 craftable and 6 noncraftable types of doors which must be looted from various locations in the world.

Noncraftable doors

 * Wooden, Rich Mahogany, Boreal, Sandstone, Skyware, Mushroom, Granite, Marble, Living Wood and Lihzahrd Doors can also be looted from various locations in the world.

Tips

 * In order to open a door, fighters need to be directly in front of it and on the same level as the base of the door. Therefore, a hole of 2×1 blocks in front of the door will prevent them from opening it.

Trivia

 * Pine Doors don a wreath very similar to the Holly item, most likely due to being crafted from Pine Tree Blocks, which are only obtainable from Presents dropped during the Christmas season.
 * Mushroom Zombies are the only Zombies in the game that can open doors outside of a Blood Moon.
 * Even though they are made out of tougher materials, the Lead, Stone and Iron Doors are functionally identical to the other doors.