Sandbox Mode Experiments

Dive into BoneLab's Sandbox Mode! Learn how to unlock new areas, use the BOSSCLAW, and find hidden rooms to experiment with all the game has to offer.

Alright, so you've made it to the BONELAB Hub, which is basically the main hangout spot and your gateway to pretty much everything else in the game. Think of it as your personal sandbox where you can mess around with all the cool stuff you unlock. It's also a pretty crucial part of the main campaign, so let's get you familiar with it.

You'll start off in the Conceptual Isolation Chamber, fresh off your fall from 'Descent'. You can either force your way out of the chamber doors or find a way out through the roof hatch. Once you're out, you'll find yourself in the Special Projects Area, which is the BONELAB itself. You'll hear some tunes, and you'll see this big bulletin board that basically tells you to go explore three different modules. These modules are your ticket to unlocking more of the Hub.

Unlocking the Left Side

Once you've checked out three of those modules, you'll notice some boxes pop up above them, creating these cool pillars of light. Inside those boxes are energy cores. Your next mission is to head over to the control room. This is where things get interesting. You'll get to pilot a BOSSCLAW, which is this big, powerful machine. You've got a lever to extend and retract it, controls to move it forward and side-to-side along its rails, and a button to toggle its magnetic gravity field. It sounds complicated, but it's pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it.

Your goal here is to use the BOSSCLAW, guided by the minimap, to grab those energy cores you unlocked. Once a core is attached to the BOSSCLAW using its magnetic field, you need to bring it over to one of the six tubes flanking the control room. The cores will snap into place when you get close enough. You'll need to get three cores into these tubes to unlock the massive quarantine airlock to the right of the control room. That's your ticket to progressing!

Unlocking the Right Side

After you've made some progress in the campaign and you're sent back to the Hub, it's time to finish up what you started. You'll need to explore the remaining modules and grab their energy cores, just like you did before. Once all six cores are slotted into their respective pipes, the BONEWORKS door on the right side of the control area will finally open up for you.

Hidden Room

Now for a little secret: if you head into the metal vents underneath the lab, you'll find a network of corridors. These lead to two walls that have hand-drawn doors on them. If you've found one of the keycards scattered around, you can use it on one of these walls to step through into a room that's connected to the Lab, but it's actually located underneath District 05 of MythOS City. What the second hand-drawn door is for? That's still a bit of a mystery!