Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-28441220-20160512113140/@comment-27516710-20160517062617

Well gates were added and in new regions/chunks even on an old world the Gondor towers, Elven towers, Dwarven towers, and Near Hard towers now spawn with those gates. Of course NPCs lack the ability to use standard gates like in the old Rohan fortress so changing that to a new gate really didn't change anything. The new gates do make the buildings unable to be used by NPCs compared to the same buildings that spawned prior to the "Gate" update when those same structures had regular doors instead. Is this suggestion more for player use to make new doors with all the wood types or is NPC functionality also required? Since they can't open the new gates does having the inability to use "new" doors really matter that much?

Of course there is always carpenter's blocks but the problem with that is that the doors made with CB don't have the same banner protection as the vanilla doors and new gates.

I don't know that I care much if the NPCs can open or close them because it is an inherent security risk anyways (NPCs opening doors on their own could let an enemy player in your base).