Lunchbox will award you a dweller when you open it, these dwellers usually arrive fully equipped with above average stats and may include Legendary Vault dwellers.īeware as you get more dwellers, you'll need more clean water and food, and space.

Note: the game keeps track of lineage, and relatives won't have children together. Some time after that the child will grow up and can be treated like any other dweller. A period of time later the female dweller will give birth to a child dweller. Given time dwellers will retreat to the back room and the female dweller will emerge pregnant. Assign a male and female dweller to the living quarters. You can increase the chance of new dwellers wandering to your Vault from the Wasteland, by building a radio studio and assigning dwellers to broadcast. There are three ways to get more Dwellers: Each new Vault starts with a Population of 2, depending on the number and level of living quarters you can subsequently increase that number up to 200. Save money and leave the poor silicates alone until you truly need the space.ĭwellers are vital to the survival of your Vault, as through them you are able to gather resources, fend off threats and based on their number new Room types unlock. Removing rocks is generally something you only need to do when expanding the Vault. The ground level contains the entrance, with a pre-placed Vault door (4 spaces), its entryway (2 spaces), and the pre-placed elevator (which can't be moved unless you destroy the entire Vault). A rock at level 5 would cost 175 caps to destroy, on the other hand. The cost is determined by the depth: It starts at 50 caps per rock, with an additional 25 cap fee per level.Įxample: If you somehow find a rock at level 1, you have to pay 75 caps to destroy.

Starting from level 4, you can encounter rocks, which have to be blasted apart using caps before any construction can commence. In order to access lower levels an elevator must first be built. The elevator is the only exception, as build vertically adjacent to itself and takes only one space. Most rooms can built next to a horizontally adjacent room and take 2 spaces.

The Vault is built on a 20x25 grid, with one ground level and 24 subterranean levels below, each subterranean level contains 20 available spaces.

Numbered anywhere from 0 to 999, it is made up of a number of integrated rooms, and it is your job to ensure its growth and maximize productivity. The Vault is the facility you control as the overseer in Fallout Shelter. Please help The Vault by discussing this issue on the article's talk page. It has been suggested that this article or section should be split in multiple parts.

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