Deadlock Sandbox Guide: Map, Settings and Console Commands

The Sandbox is Deadlock’s practice map. It has everything you need to learn a hero or a mechanic without a match going on around you, plus a settings panel that can level you up, switch off cooldowns and slow time down.

How to get there

• Play terminal in your Hideout, then Sandbox.
• Or walk through the teleporter in the Atrium, the practice room off your Hideout’s main hall.
• The teleporter inside the Sandbox takes you back to the Atrium.

What’s on the map

Area	What’s there	Practise
Spawn	A Curiosity Shop, and a healing zone around it. You can buy items anywhere on this map.	Testing builds
The garden (left)	An ally and an enemy Guardian, with troopers spawning behind each one and fighting. Past it, an area with an enemy Walker.	Last hits, soul orbs, pushing objectives
The range (right)	Ally and enemy test dummies next to a shooting range, and a dummy that runs back and forth in front of it	Aim and tracking
Traversal props	A Cosmic Veil, a rope, a jump pad, two power-ups, a Rejuvenator and a pair of teleporters	Movement and objectives
The gym	A dummy that throws melee attacks at you	Parry timing
The storage room	A jungle camp with small, medium and large monsters	Clearing camps

The City Never Sleeps update (September 29, 2026) added the new objectives to the Sandbox map, and crates and jungle camps now first appear 5 seconds after you load in instead of 30.

The settings panel

Every setting has a button in the panel. The console command is listed too, for players who prefer typing it.

Hero tools

These also work on a bot you’re mimicking or puppeting.

Setting	What it does	Console command
Change Hero / Change Team	Switch hero, or join the enemy team
Reset Hero	Back to level 0 with no ability upgrades	resetme
Level Up	Gain one level	givelevelupgold 1
Max Level	Jump to max level	givelevelupgold 35
Half Health / Full Health	Set your health to 50% or 100%	healthpct 50 / healthpct 100
Kill Hero	Kill yourself instantly	lethaldamageme
All Perks	Unlock every ability upgrade	giveallupgrades
Spawn Camp	Spawn a jungle camp near you	citadel_spawn_nearby_neutrals

Game rules

Setting	What it does	Console command
No Death	Heroes can’t die (troopers and camps still can)
No Reload	Infinite ammo
No Cooldown	Cooldowns drop to 1 second (not quite instant)
Fast Stamina	Stamina recharges much faster
Slow down / Normal / Speed up	Change the game speed	host_timescale_dec / host_timescale 1.0 / host_timescale_inc

Slow motion is underrated. Slowing the game down is the easiest way to see exactly when a timing window opens, like the dash jump window or a hidden melee. Always set the speed back to normal before you practise for real.

Hero control

Setting	What it does	Console command
Spawn a hero	Choose a hero and friendly or enemy; it appears where your crosshair points
Take Control	Take control of a bot hero	citadel_assume_pawn_control
Remove Bots	Remove every bot hero, dummies included	bot_kick_all
Make Mimic	The bot copies everything you do	bot_mimic_target
Make Puppet	You control the bot	bot_puppet_target
Clear Follow	End mimic and puppet mode	bot_mimic 0; bot_puppet 0

Make Mimic is a neat trick: a bot copying you lets you watch your own movement and dodging from the enemy’s point of view.

Known bug

If you go back to the Hideout from the menu while you’re puppeting a bot, you can’t move your hero there. Use Clear Follow (bot_puppet 0) or restart the game.

The Atrium

The Atrium is a smaller practice room inside your Hideout, through the doorway to the left of the main hall. There’s no loading screen, which makes it ideal for a two-minute warm-up before you queue.

• Static friendly and enemy bots to shoot and test abilities on.
• A ball, a rope, a soul well and a jump pad.
• A machine that toggles fast cooldowns and infinite stamina.
• A crystal that lets party members swap teams, for practising with friends.
• The teleporter to the full Sandbox.

Explore NYC

Explore NYC, also on the Play terminal, puts you on the real match map on your own, with the same settings panel as the Sandbox. Crates and jungle camps first appear after 5 seconds. Use it to learn routes and shortcuts, practise corner boosts and zipline tech on the buildings you’ll actually fight around, and time your farming route.

What to practise

Not sure where to start? Our practice drills turn the Sandbox, the Atrium and Explore NYC into a 20-minute daily routine covering movement, aim, last hits and parry.