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Pawns manually open doors which causes a delay as they try to pass through, as opposed to [[autodoor]]s which open on demand and allow faster passage. All doors are generally locked to hostile entities, including prisoners, raiders and mad animals. A door can be marked to "Hold open," which means the next time it is opened, it will stay open, and then all pawns can pass through. A door can also be marked "Forbid". Colonists and tamed animals don't use forbidden doors, even if they're held open. However visitors, traders, and colonists on [[Mood#Mental breaks|mental breakdowns]] ignore the forbidden status.
 
Pawns manually open doors which causes a delay as they try to pass through, as opposed to [[autodoor]]s which open on demand and allow faster passage. All doors are generally locked to hostile entities, including prisoners, raiders and mad animals. A door can be marked to "Hold open," which means the next time it is opened, it will stay open, and then all pawns can pass through. A door can also be marked "Forbid". Colonists and tamed animals don't use forbidden doors, even if they're held open. However visitors, traders, and colonists on [[Mood#Mental breaks|mental breakdowns]] ignore the forbidden status.
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=== Material choice ===
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Typically, a colony constructs their first doors from wood, which is light and so opens more quickly than other doors. However, wood is both flammable and comparatively weak against attacks, so proves vulnerable as the early game moves into mid-/late-game conflict. However, as interior doors, they are often still quite suitable, at least until [[autodoor|better options]] are available.
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Once they can be afforded, steel doors are a good balance of durability, flame resistance and price.  The next step up for doors that are often closed/opened would be plasteel, a precious material but unsurpassed in strength for defensive positions.
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Stone doors can be problematic because they open so slowly. However, they do have a 0% flammability, making them a nice option for a firebreak at key locations; select them to be Held Open for normal traffic, and draft/shut them if/when the need arises.  They can also be used for areas that are rarely entered, perhaps your [[chemfuel powered generator]]s (which only need to be fueled once/6 days), or for the switch to a bank of emergency batteries.  If you do choose to make use of stone doors, [[granite]] is your strongest choice, and no slower than any other stone.
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Once [[autodoor]]s have been researched (''and'' you have the power to reliably operate them), standard doors can be replaced with alternative materials and not slow down traffic at all, or at least slow it far less.
  
 
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Revision as of 20:37, 8 March 2022

Door

Door

Divides rooms. Simple doors must be manually opened, which slows people down. The amount of slowdown depends on what the door is made of.

Base Stats

Type
BuildingStructure
HP
160
Flammability
100%
Rotatable
False

Building

Size
1 × 1
Minifiable
False
Placeable
True
Cover Effectiveness
75%
"Light-heavy" is not in the list (Light, Medium, Heavy, Depends on materials, Bridgeable, Diggable, Shallow water, ShallowWater, MovingFluid, GrowSoil, ...) of allowed values for the "Terrain Affordance" property.
Terrain Affordance
Light-heavy

Creation

Work To Make
850 ticks (14.17 secs)
Stuff Tags
Metallic, Woody, Stony
Resources to make
Stuff 25
Deconstruct yield
Stuff 12 - 13
Destroy yield
nothing

Doors provide entry points through walls for colonists while still keeping out enemies and wild animals.

Pawns manually open doors which causes a delay as they try to pass through, as opposed to autodoors which open on demand and allow faster passage. All doors are generally locked to hostile entities, including prisoners, raiders and mad animals. A door can be marked to "Hold open," which means the next time it is opened, it will stay open, and then all pawns can pass through. A door can also be marked "Forbid". Colonists and tamed animals don't use forbidden doors, even if they're held open. However visitors, traders, and colonists on mental breakdowns ignore the forbidden status.

Material choice

Typically, a colony constructs their first doors from wood, which is light and so opens more quickly than other doors. However, wood is both flammable and comparatively weak against attacks, so proves vulnerable as the early game moves into mid-/late-game conflict. However, as interior doors, they are often still quite suitable, at least until better options are available.

Once they can be afforded, steel doors are a good balance of durability, flame resistance and price. The next step up for doors that are often closed/opened would be plasteel, a precious material but unsurpassed in strength for defensive positions.

Stone doors can be problematic because they open so slowly. However, they do have a 0% flammability, making them a nice option for a firebreak at key locations; select them to be Held Open for normal traffic, and draft/shut them if/when the need arises. They can also be used for areas that are rarely entered, perhaps your chemfuel powered generators (which only need to be fueled once/6 days), or for the switch to a bank of emergency batteries. If you do choose to make use of stone doors, granite is your strongest choice, and no slower than any other stone.

Once autodoors have been researched (and you have the power to reliably operate them), standard doors can be replaced with alternative materials and not slow down traffic at all, or at least slow it far less.

Stats table

  • Door Door Beauty Work to Build HP Flamma­bility Door
    Speed
    Market
    Value
    Material
    Bioferrite Bioferrite Content added by the Anomaly DLC 0 002,125 ticks (35.42 secs) 320 75% 100% 26 Silver
    Gold Gold 20 000,765 ticks (12.75 secs) 96 40% 100% 2,505 Silver
    Granite blocks Granite blocks 0 005,240 ticks (1.46 mins) 272 0% 45% 41 Silver
    Limestone blocks Limestone blocks 0 005,240 ticks (1.46 mins) 248 0% 45% 41 Silver
    Marble blocks Marble blocks 1 004,815 ticks (1.34 mins) 192 0% 45% 40 Silver
    Plasteel Plasteel 0 001,870 ticks (31.17 secs) 448 0% 100% 230 Silver
    Sandstone blocks Sandstone blocks 0 004,390 ticks (1.22 mins) 224 0% 45% 38 Silver
    Silver Silver 6 000,850 ticks (14.17 secs) 112 40% 100% 255 Silver
    Slate blocks Slate blocks 0 005,240 ticks (1.46 mins) 208 0% 45% 41 Silver
    Steel Steel 0 000,850 ticks (14.17 secs) 160 40% 100% 51 Silver
    Jade Jade 10 004,250 ticks (1.18 mins) 80 0% 100% 140 Silver
    Uranium Uranium 0 001,615 ticks (26.92 secs) 400 0% 75% 156 Silver
    Wood Wood 0 000,595 ticks (9.92 secs) 104 100% 120% 32 Silver
  • Version history

    • 0.7.581 - Now lockable.
    • 1.3.3066 - Doors not owned by the player can be forbidden.