It may not make sense, but when you start building your base inPax Dei, you can’t actually place any doors down. Your nice huts and cottages will be bare unless you advance in crafting and unlock certain recipes.

Doors and window shutters are essential to completing your builds. Without them, you just have a couple of walls, and your home won’t feel as cozy or secure. In the guide below, you’ll find instructions on how to unlock windows and doors, ensuring that your buildings are not only functional but also inviting and aesthetically pleasing.

Pax Dei’s Construction Hammer Props menu being shown.

How To Get Doors

As with most recipes in the game, you have to progress certain skills and find new materials to actually advance in crafting. You don’t need a high Carpentry skill level to unlock doors. What you actually need is todiscover Iron Hinges for the first time.

Iron Hinges are crafted at theBasic Blacksmith Workbench using one Iron Sheet and six Iron Nails.

Pax Dei player in front of a cottage door with a torch.

you may craft a Basic Blacksmith Workbench by crafting the Basic Blacksmithing Tools at the Basic Carpenters Bench.

Crafting Iron Hinges means that you have Iron Ingots and Iron Bars. You have to have a Basic Furnace, 80 Charcoal, and 40 Impure Iron Ore to smelt Iron Ingots.Iron Ingots can then be taken to a Stone Anvil and turned into iron materialssuch as nails.

Wooden Door (Left-Side and Right-Side) Recipe

4 Iron Hinges

How To Get Window Shutters

Discovering Iron Hinges will also unlock Square Shutters. These red-colored shutters can be crafted at the Basic Carpenters Bench, the same as other decorative items in the game. You canunlock more colorful and unique shuttersas you progress in the game.

12 Iron Nails

2 Iron Hinges

As the game currently stands, there areno other doors you’re able to unlock. There are, however, blue shutters and rounded shutters you can unlock. Other shutters can be unlocked by discovering Wrought Iron Nails and reaching Carpentry skill level 16.

How To Unlock

Rounded Shutters

Discovering Wrought Iron Nails by crafting a Wrought Iron Bar at a Basic Forge at Carpentry level 7.

Chevron Shutters

Discovering Steel Hinges by crafting a Steel Sheet at a Tier Two Blacksmith Workbench.