The Urn, also known as the Sappers' Bounty, is one of the key neutral objectives in Deadlock. It's more than just another marker on the map: a successful delivery rewards your entire team with souls, which is why fights over the Urn often turn into full team skirmishes. In this guide we'll cover what the Urn is, how to deliver it, and how to stop the enemy from doing the same.

What the Urn is and where it spawns

The Urn appears periodically at a fixed spot near the center of the map, and its spawn is marked with an icon visible to both teams. To take it, you walk up and begin the pickup: this takes a short moment during which you're vulnerable. Once the Urn is in your hands, a drop-off point appears that you need to carry it to. The delivery reward grows as the match goes on, so the Urn is far more valuable in the mid and late game than in the opening minutes.

How to deliver the Urn

The main challenge is that the Urn carrier is visible to the entire enemy team: your icon is highlighted on the map, so opponents always know where you are. Because of this, a solo delivery is almost impossible against an attentive enemy — you need your teammates' support. Before picking up the Urn, read the situation: where the enemies are, whether your team is nearby, and whether ziplines are available for a quick escape. A good time to deliver is right after a won team fight, or when part of the enemy team is dead or busy farming on the far side of the map.

Pick a safe route, not the shortest one. Ziplines speed up travel but make you predictable, so sometimes the back alleys are the smarter play. If you're the carrier, stay behind your allies and don't engage first — your job is to reach the point, not to get kills. If the team decides to force the delivery, it makes sense to hand the Urn to your tankiest hero or to someone with mobility and survival tools.

How to contest and intercept a delivery

If the enemy has picked up the Urn, you have two options: kill the carrier or intercept the Urn at the drop-off point. When the carrier dies, the Urn falls to the ground and either team can pick it up — including yours. That turns the area around the carrier into a trap: set an ambush along the route, cut off the escape paths, and focus the carrier. Remember that picking up a dropped Urn also takes time, so crowd control and slows are especially valuable here.

Don't forget about trading resources. Sometimes it's better not to throw yourself into a hopeless fight over the Urn but to calmly farm a lane or take another objective while the enemy spends time and rotations on the delivery. Weigh whether the soul reward is worth the risks you'd have to take.

When to take the Urn and when to skip it

Take the Urn when you have a numbers advantage, control of mid, or when the reward has already grown by the middle of the match. Skip it when your team is scattered, key heroes are dead, or when a more important opportunity opens up at the same time — such as the mid-boss or a push down an exposed lane. The Urn is a tool for converting an existing advantage, not a reason to throw yourself into a suicidal rotation.