Does Material Matter?

[Yawzheek]

For say, crafting a base/house/door/anything? It doesn't seem like it does, but I'm unsure. I don't want a weak house, obviously, so I wanted to know if finding all this clay and making bricks would be worth the bother.

Thanks dudes.

[Emmote]

Pretty much no. It's all aesthetics.

There are some which have negative effects, like dungeon brick walls, but for the most part, no, there's no difference.

[Joshua Kurayami]

Nothing matters when you make a house or crap like that. you can make it out of mushrooms, and it is still fine for people to go in

[Margonian]

Mostly what you think looks nice, but,
Mushrooms glow, Dungeon brick is blast resistant.
Hollowbrick spread hollow (I belive, tried it before the update.)
Lihzard brick are absolutly blast prof and cant be mined with less than a picksaw. (for playersafe.)
And if you place allot blocks of a certain biome, NPC might sell you different stuff.

But about doors I think they all are the same, and thats odd, lead or wood, dont mather.

[StepS]

Originally posted by Margonian:

Hollowbrick spread hollow

Read the 1.2 update change log again, it was fixed

[Margonian]

Originally posted by StepS:

Originally posted by Margonian:

Hollowbrick spread hollow

Read the 1.2 update change log again, it was fixed

Thats great, it was really annoying.

[Nasty Peep]

I thought materials other than wood for doors made it harder for zombies and such to break in during Blood Moon? I'm not sure where I read that or if it's even true.

[Emmote]

http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Iron_Door
"The Iron Door is a type of Door. Despite their appearance, they are not any stronger than normal doors and are still able to be opened by enemies."

The same applies to all doors.