Teardown Unlocks Guide: Tools, Characters, and Extras

How to Unlock Tools and Maps in Teardown

A few extra objectives can put a new demolition tool in your hands sooner. This Teardown unlocks guide explains how campaign score, cash upgrades, character objectives, and extra content fit together. Complete missions to open up more tools and maps, finish optional objectives to raise your score, and collect valuables to pay for upgrades.

You begin with the Sledge, Spray Can, and Fire Extinguisher. Your arsenal expands as you advance through the campaign and climb its ranks. Each completed objective contributes one score point, so optional targets help you reach new tool rewards faster.

These rank milestones give you specific rewards to work toward:

Campaign rank	Tool unlocked
Amateur	Blowtorch
Novice	Shotgun
Breaker	Plank and Pipe Bomb
Crook	Gun
Professional	Rocket boosters
Hot Shot	Blue Tide

Novice arrives at a score of 10. Further campaign progression also brings equipment such as cables, bombs, the Rocket Launcher, vehicle thrusters, and nitroglycerin.

For more score, build your route around optional objectives before triggering an alarm. Scout every target, clear passages through buildings, and position vehicles where you intend to use them. On wired heists, leave alarm connections intact during preparation.

Use newly unlocked equipment to revisit difficult objectives. Planks let you construct walkways, cables connect objects, and Blue Tide provides a temporary running speed boost. Each adds another way to shorten a route that previously felt out of reach.

How to Upgrade Your Unlocked Tools

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Unlocking a tool and upgrading it are separate parts of progression. Campaign progress expands your equipment selection; money from hidden valuables pays for improvements.

Search rooms, rooftops, concealed spaces, and small safes while preparing a mission. Collect valuables before using explosives around them, since destruction can make an item difficult to retrieve.

Several tools support different upgrade categories:

• Blowtorch: Fuel capacity.
• Shotgun: Ammunition, range, and damage.
• Gun: Ammunition.
• Plank: Quantity, width, and maximum length.
• Pipe Bomb and Rocket Launcher: Ammunition.
• Bomb: Ammunition and blast size.

The Sledge, Spray Can, and Fire Extinguisher have no upgrades.

Spend money on the limitation that is disrupting your current route. Increase plank length when a crossing falls short, add ammunition when preparation exhausts your supply, or expand blowtorch fuel when cutting through obstacles takes too much of your allowance.

Keep blast size in mind when planning around sensitive targets. Larger explosions require more room around anything you need to preserve, including vehicles, valuables, and alarm connections.

How Character Unlocks Work

Version 1.6 introduced selectable characters and the ability to switch between first-person and third-person views. Some characters require completing specific in-game objectives before they become available.

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Character progression has its own requirements alongside campaign tools and upgrades. Work through the objectives attached to unlockable characters to expand your selection, then switch to third-person view to see your chosen character during play.

The third-person update supports the game’s tools, vehicles, and official post-launch content. It also introduced custom characters through modding, giving you another route to different appearances.

Merlin is a spawnable ragdoll. Find Merlin in the spawn menu when you want a crash-test dummy for demolition experiments.

Unlocking Maps for Sandbox and Using Mods

Campaign progression opens additional maps that you can enter through Sandbox from the main menu. Sandbox provides unlimited resources for experimenting with destruction, vehicles, and object spawning.

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Use it to practice a tool’s behavior without spending a campaign mission’s limited ammunition. Test how a blast affects a wall, experiment with plank structures, or try cable connections before building a heist route around them.

Mods provide another way to access maps, tools, vehicles, characters, and game modes:

• On PC: Steam Workshop integration supports community creations, while the editor and Lua scripting support building your own.
• On Xbox: The Mod Browser provides access to custom content, with community creations also released through free Mod Packs.

The base campaign and Sandbox also support multiplayer sessions with up to 12 players. Campaign co-op lets a group divide preparation and collection duties, while multiplayer Sandbox provides room for shared experiments.

For a coordinated heist, assign targets and escape routes before anyone touches an alarm connection.

Free Extras and DLC Unlocks

Additional equipment does not always come from raising your campaign rank. Some content belongs to free expansions, built-in mods, or paid DLC with its own missions and rewards.

Content	Access	Tools, rewards, or activities
Art Vandals	Free mini campaign	Five heist missions in Tilläggaryd, with the Paperboy Gun and Jackhammer
Folkrace	Paid DLC	Racing modes, destructive challenges, and unlockable vehicles and skins
The Greenwash Gambit	Paid DLC; multiplayer support added August 18, 2026	14 missions across four maps; campaign tools available as multiplayer mods
Relics of Barkuna	Paid DLC released June 10, 2026	Three exploration-focused levels, over 240 lost relics, and five new tools

Free Content to Explore

Art Vandals offers another set of heists with its own tools and setting. Its five missions take place in Tilläggaryd, and the expansion also introduces the possibilities of Teardown’s modding systems.

Löckelle Motor Park became a free built-in mod. It includes an obstacle course and two monster trucks, and those trucks are spawnable throughout the game.

Paid Content and Ownership Requirements

Folkrace adds a separate collection of vehicles and skins to unlock through its automotive activities. Time Campers supplies a Wild West setting with period-themed demolition equipment, including dynamite.

The Greenwash Gambit adds space-based missions, zero-gravity mechanics, and anti-gravity crystals. Everyone joining a multiplayer session for that DLC needs to own it.

Relics of Barkuna centers on exploration, puzzles, and collecting relics as James Thorvaldsson. It requires the base game, so choose the Relics of Barkuna expansion on Steam when you want its additional locations and tools.

Achievement Unlocks With Specific Requirements

Teardown has 27 Steam achievements. Several depend on using a particular mode or completing an objective beyond simply finishing the story.

Paintjob

Paintjob is one of Teardown’s Steam achievements.

Drive for treasure

Retrieve the sunken car in the Murator beach Sandbox and drive it. Use cables and a boat to pull it toward shore, then get it moving on land. Sitting inside and spinning the wheels while it remains submerged does not complete the task.

The Marina Yacht

Sink the yacht in the Marina’s Sandbox mode.

The Flood Without Getting Wet

Complete The Flood without touching water. Prepare dry crossings with planks and position boats so you can board and leave them from solid ground.

Separate this attempt from collecting every optional target. Finish the dry run with the required objectives, then return for a route focused on clearing the remaining targets.