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'''Doors''' are a piece of [[furniture]] used mainly to control the movement of dwarves, [[pet]]s and liquids and define the exits of [[room]]s. A door must be built next to a [[wall]] or other form of support. Doors appear using different glyphs depending on their material.

Doors can be made of [[stone]] ({{Raw Tile|┼|0:7:0}}), [[metal]] ({{Raw Tile|≡|6:4:0}}), [[glass]] ({{Raw Tile|O|2:2:1}}), and [[wood]] ({{Raw Tile|║|0:6:0}}). [[Artifact]] doors can also be made from [[gem]] ({{Raw Tile|☼|7:2:0}}) and [[bone]] ({{Raw Tile|║|0:7:0}}). A glass door is called a '''portal'''.

*'''Forbid Passage''': The door can not be passed unless it is permitted again or destroyed. [[Dwarf|Dwarves]], wild and tame [[animals]], and most [[invader]]s will all be unable to pass. However, [[Thief|thieves]] can pick the locks of forbidden doors, and [[Building destroyer|building destroyers]] (such as [[Troll|trolls]]), will simply smash them down.

*'''Keep tightly closed''': Animals will not be able to pass through the door, but dwarves and invaders will not be hindered. (A dwarf that passes through the door can accidentally let in the animals... {Or say a goblin that just so happened to be one of the 50 goblins that ambushed you was to open this door and let out these 500 ravenous [[Dog|Wardogs]].}) Because of pathfinding issues, this setting has been known to cause game lag.{{bug|797}}

Doors can also be connected to [[lever]]s or [[pressure plate]]s to open on command. Doors also halt the movement of liquids ([[water]] and [[magma]]) in the manner of [[floodgate]]s, and can be used in the same ways if a passageway is narrow enough.

 

 

You can also use this strategy to unhook doors from walls and leave them as free standing structures. Why you would want to do this is up to you, but some players may find this useful for baiting [[building destroyer|Building destroyers]] away from your fortress.

*Any item on the same tile as a door will cause the door to be propped open, which makes it impossible to lock and will allow fluids in. Such will also jam mechanically linked doors, needing to be cleared out and the lever or pressure plate triggered again to shut.

 

 

 

*Doors are a vital, if somewhat double-edged, component of [[Fortress defense]]. You could build your own shogunate castle by replacing your walls with doors, a tactic which will disorient your enemies with unlimited pathfinding options and provide your Hammerdwarves with excellent ambushing potential. Be warned though, just like rice-paper walls have trouble keeping grown men at bay, you're going to have some [[fun]] with building destroyers. And thieves. Your haulers won't mind.

*Artifact doors are indestructible, and may be used to [[DF2012 Talk:Door#Artifact doors indeed indistructible|filter out building destroyers]].

*Doors block [[trade depot]] access, regardless of their settings. And no, you cannot build three-wide doors as a caravan garage door. You're better off using a [[bridge]] or linked [[floodgate|floodgates]] for that.

*All doors are watertight, but dwarves may allow small amounts through when they open a door to pass. If you need doors to a watery area such as a reservoir for an artificial waterfall or flood trap, you can limit the mess from escaping water by making the exits "airlocks", two doors enclosing a one or two tile room between the tank and the main hallway. The small amount of water that escapes will be contained in the room and evaporate. If the water level can potentially get too high to evaporate, channeling a drain and placing [[grate]]s or floor bars is even more effective.