Doors

Doors

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Statistics

Type	FurnitureMechanism
Placeable	✔️ (2 wide × 3 high)
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Rarity	00*
Sell	40 2 (Golden Door)

Sounds

Opened
Closed

• Internal Tile ID: 10 (closed), 11 (open)

“

Must everyone open and shut doors so incredibly noisily around here?!

— The Tax Collector

All placed doors, shown here in their open-left, closed, and open-right configurations. Click/tap the image to view a summary of each row.

Doors are furniture items that prevent enemies from entering an area when closed. Players can open them by pressing the ⚷ Interact 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.

Lihzahrd Door locked graphic.

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.

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Nebula Door Internal Item ID: 4197	Nebula Brick6	Ancient Manipulator
Solar Door Internal Item ID: 4155	Solar Brick6
Stardust Door Internal Item ID: 4218	Stardust Brick6
Vortex Door Internal Item ID: 4176	Vortex Brick6
Bone Door Internal Item ID: 820	Bone6	Bone Welder
Lesion Door Internal Item ID: 3967	Lesion Block6	Decay Chamber
Flesh Door Internal Item ID: 817	Flesh Block6	Flesh Cloning Vat
Glass Door Internal Item ID: 1709	Glass6	Glass Kiln
Stone Door Internal Item ID: 4415	Gray Brick6	Heavy Work Bench
Honey Door Internal Item ID: 1711	Honey Block6	Honey Dispenser
Frozen Door Internal Item ID: 2044	Ice Block6	Ice Machine
Iron Door Internal Item ID: 1140	Iron Bar4	Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil
Lead Door Internal Item ID: 1139	Lead Bar4
Lihzahrd Door Internal Item ID: 1137	Lihzahrd Brick6	Lihzahrd Furnace
Living Wood Door Internal Item ID: 819	Wood6	Living Loom
Skyware Door Internal Item ID: 837	Sunplate Block6	Sky Mill
Slime Door Internal Item ID: 2576	Slime Block6	Solidifier
Steampunk Door Internal Item ID: 1712	Cog6	Steampunk Boiler
Ash Wood Door Internal Item ID: 5200	Ash Wood6	Work Bench
Balloon Door Internal Item ID: 5179	Any Balloon6
Bamboo Door Internal Item ID: 4576	Bamboo6
only: Bone Door Internal Item ID: 820	Bone6
Boreal Wood Door Internal Item ID: 2561	Boreal Wood6
Cactus Door Internal Item ID: 816	Cactus6
Crystal Door Internal Item ID: 3888	Crystal Block15
Dynasty Door Internal Item ID: 2265	Dynasty Wood6
Ebonwood Door Internal Item ID: 650	Ebonwood6
Granite Door Internal Item ID: 3131	Smooth Granite Block6
only: Honey Door Internal Item ID: 1711	Crispy Honey Block6
Marble Door Internal Item ID: 3130	Smooth Marble Block6
Martian Door Internal Item ID: 2815	Martian Conduit Plating6
Meteorite Door Internal Item ID: 3129	Meteorite Brick6
Mushroom Door Internal Item ID: 818	Glowing Mushroom6
Palm Wood Door Internal Item ID: 2528	Palm Wood6
Pearlwood Door Internal Item ID: 652	Pearlwood6
Pine Door Internal Item ID: 1924	Pine Tree Block6
Pumpkin Door Internal Item ID: 1793	Pumpkin6
Reef Door Internal Item ID: 5158	Reef Block6
Rich Mahogany Door Internal Item ID: 651	Rich Mahogany6
Sandstone Door Internal Item ID: 4307	Smooth Sandstone6
Shadewood Door Internal Item ID: 912	Shadewood6
Spider Door Internal Item ID: 3941	Spider Nest Block6
Spooky Door Internal Item ID: 1815	Spooky Wood6
Wooden Door Internal Item ID: 25	Wood6

Noncraftable doors

Door		Notes
	Dungeon Door Internal Item ID: 1138	Furniture found in the Dungeon.
	Blue Dungeon Door Internal Item ID: 1411	Furniture found in the Dungeon.
	Green Dungeon Door Internal Item ID: 1412	Furniture found in the Dungeon.
	Pink Dungeon Door Internal Item ID: 1413	Furniture found in the Dungeon.
	Obsidian Door Internal Item ID: 1458	Found in Ruined houses, does not disappear in lava.
	Golden Door Internal Item ID: 1710	Dropped by pirates. Sell for 2.

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

Notes

• Doors open to the left or right based on which direction the player faces, rather than the direction they are coming from. For example, if a player stands to the left of a door and faces left, the door will open toward the player – to the left. If the player does not move and then turns to the right and opens the door, it will now open to the right.
• Putting a platform or furniture (such as a Torch or even a second door) on one side of the door prevents it from being opened in that direction. This is useful to keep houses safe from enemies during some events like the Blood Moon, as they will always attempt to open the doors inward. On the  PC version,  Console version,  Mobile version, and  tModLoader version, doors opened by players will attempt to open to the other side when blocked.
• Doors open automatically when approached by players. This option can toggled in the Settings.
• Doors hold back liquids when closed.
  • If exposed to lava while open, doors (except for Obsidian Doors) will break automatically, but while closed, will hold back lava like they would water and honey.
• While opened, all doors take up 2×3 tiles. While closed, the dimensions are 1×3 tiles.
  • Thus, it is more economical to paint doors when they are closed, as it would only require 3 Paint.
  • Additionally, if one randomly paints one of the two spots in each row of an open door, and then closing it, opening it again will apply paint to the entire door.
• If a door that a player is grappled to is opened, the hook will be released and the player will be flung several tiles in the direction the door was opened in.

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.

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.2.1: Fixed an issue where Doors, Trap Doors, and Tall Gates could render a house invalid if they were open.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Spider, Lesion, Stone, Sandstone, Bamboo, Nebula, Solar, Stardust, and Vortex Doors introduced.
  • Skyware Door item and placed sprites updated.
  • Doors will now automatically open for you when approached. This option can toggled in the Settings.
  • Doors will now attempt to open the other way if forward is blocked by something.
  • Doors that have icicles, rubble, or other natural background elements grow in front of them will now break them when opened.

• Desktop 1.3.5: Crystal Door introduced.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Meteorite, Granite, Marble, and Martian Doors added.

• Desktop 1.2.4.1: Fixed the bug where the wiring system was not activating doors, Music Boxes, and Water Fountains properly.

• Desktop 1.2.4: Palm Wood, Boreal Wood and Slime Doors added.

• Desktop 1.2.3: Frozen Door introduced, changed crafting station for most doors.

• Desktop 1.2.2: Pine Door introduced.

• Desktop 1.2.1.2: Actuators no longer work on doors.

• Desktop 1.2.1: Pumpkin Door and Spooky Door introduced.

• Desktop 1.2.0.3: Steampunk Door, Glass Door, Honey Door, and Golden Door introduced.

• Desktop 1.2.0.2: Opening doors will no longer cause a room to be unsuitable.

• Desktop 1.2: Many new variations introduced.

• Desktop 1.0.6: Wooden Door sprite updated. old sprites were

• Desktop-Release: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.