Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-68.34.50.62-20150926130732

One of the most amazing things in the mod are the dwarven doors. They are a cool idea, and add lot's of flavor to dwarf homes. However, they are somewhat useless unless you build your fort entirely out of regular stone, and the doors are hidden in some obscure place. Until gates come out dwarven doors are what people will use to protect themselves in multiplayer. Here are three key things I want to change.

1. Dwarven doors are ugly on anything except regular stone. They just look out of place. I think that dwarven doors should change into whatever blocks are surrounding them when you place them down. This would only happen if the blocks around them were made out of stone. It is also in line with the lore. In the middle earth there were many different kinds of stone. Dwarves migrated all over the place so they would built homes, and therefore doors, in all different kinds of rock.

2.It doesn't make sense that dwarven doors glow automatically at night. It never said in the books that it was the night that made them appear. I always got the impression it was the light of the moon. So here's what I'm thinking. If the moon were replaced by the sun, and a zombie was standing where the door is would the zombie burn. If the answer is yes, the door glows. If it's no, it doesn't. This may seem overpowered because people will just hide in caves where there dwarven doors won't glow, but then where would they put their troops? In general people will still build large fortresses, they'll just put their doors in more strategic locations.

3.Mellon! One of the defining features of dwarven doors is the riddle or password protecting them. Since it's impossible to generate a riddle for every dwarven door, I have a better solution. When you place down a dwarven door, a little keyboard like the with a sign will pop up. You can then enter in a six letter password. There will be only letters and it has to be a word in the English language. The first letter will automatically be Capitolized, the rest lowercase. You can change the password from inside the doors. You can also choose not to put a password and all dwarf houses wouldn't have one. Whenever someone right clicks on the door from the outside they have to enter the password. Maybe there could be a hint or something, but I feel like I've pushed the annoyingly hard to code limit far enough.

If any of these ideas are overpowered, impossible to code, non-canon, ban-worthy, etc, etc, etc. So constructive criticism is welcome. Thanks for reading. 