Testing Area

A collection of objects and NPCs in the Testing Area. A turkey can be seen in the top right corner.

### Location

Outside of the world borders, can be entered through the Elevator

The **Testing Area** is a place which is used by the developers to test various assets and mechanics in the game, all assembled in one relatively small area. It is possible to quickly receive various items or skip some quests here, so a player which enters this area can use it for cheating.

**Warning: Entering the Testing Area can cause damage to your game save slot.** You may lose some outfits or tools, and wont be able to acquire them again. If your save slot is damaged, load a backup created before the entering the Testing Area. Even better, enter it in a separate save slot, which you can reset later.

## Entering

### Current version

Since version 1.9.6, both saving and loading a backup was disabled inside elevators. For now, there's no known way of entering the Testing Area. However, this area is still present in the game files.

### Before version 1.9.6

The only known way of entering the Testing Area required creating a backup inside the R Corp building Elevator while it moves. However creating a backup manually was disabled inside moving elevators (it was possible when the Testing Area was first discovered), so you had to glitch the game to create one automatically.

1. Go to the Town and enter the ground floor of any building that has an elevator.
2. Open your Settings and Stats Book, press "Game Data", then press "Backup now".
3. Enter the elevator, and press any floor to go up.
4. While you are inside a moving elevator, open the Settings and Stats Book again, and go to the Game Data section again. Press "View Backups", and switch to the "Local Backups" tab at the top of the page. Now load the backup at the top (that backup is the one you just manually created).
5. You will be back in Town, at the entrance you last entered it. Open the Local Backups again. A new backup should have been created (at the very top of the list), so load it.
6. You will spawn in a motionless elevator. Press floor 2 to enter the Testing Area. The testing area has 2 floors; you can use the same elevator normally to move to floor 1 and back.

If this doesn't work, close the game completely (on iOS, swipe it up in the App Switcher), then reopen it and try again.

It is possible that the developers use some simpler way of entering it. For example, it may involve dialing some secret telephone number. However, this method is not discovered yet.

## Leaving

To leave the Testing Area, you can fast travel with a Map, or just get caught by a Ranger. You won't be able to go to the Testing Area again for a few hours, or until you restart the app.

## Possible cheats

Some assets in the Testing Area can be used as cheats, to get money, items, or to skip quests. This list may be not full.

### Fast Coins

On floor 1 a treasure chest can be found. It contains a Gold Bar and a large Sack of Coins. After collecting, you can go up and down the elevator and it will respawn.

### Free Lumber

Every time you go up and down the elevator, 250 lumber boards spawn. If you take them to "InventoryStockPile" sign, they are deposited into your lumber pile (at the Construction Duck workshop).

### Free Running Shoes

On floor 2, you can talk to Rabbit and complete a very easy running race. If you leave the Testing Area and come back, he respawns. Talk to him again and you will get the Running Shoes. It is not possible to get sprinting shoes from the Testing Area.

### Instant Treasure Map completion

There's a duck near a Treasure Map board. Talk to the duck 9 times to quickly complete the treasure map quest.

### Free custom outfit

In the same area as the treasure map board, you will find a racoon in front of a sign that says "CustomOutfit". It acts just like Fashion Duck.

### Free Newspaper customization

A Racoon can be found in the same area as the two above. It will allow you to customize the newspaper even if Sasquatch has not completed the newspaper quest.

### Free name change

Another Raccoon will allow you to change your name for free. It uses the same dialogue lines as R corp HR Manager.

### Free Vehicle Keys

Vehicle Keys can be obtained for free in a vending machine.

## Unreleased content

While most of the assets found in the Testing Area can also be found in the normal gameplay, there's one notable exception. There's a turkey being roasted on a spit over a campfire, which can be found on the first floor of the Testing Area. If you click on it, you get a zoomed view of it (see the picture), but other than that, it cannot be used in any way. It is possible the turkeys were intended for an unreleased Thanksgiving event.

## History

The discovery of the Testing Area was first published by YouTuber Tuấn Anh on June 14, 2022. It was soon visited by other Sneaky Sasquatch YouTubers.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/@tuananh4058