

This was the first true failure and it exposed some vulnerabilities in my planning in Fallout Shelter.Įarly days in this vault had brought their own share of problems too. All it took was three Deathclaw attacks and my vault had lost enough dwellers to make it hard to get it functional again. Having driven off many Raider attacks earlier in the vault door room itself, I was quite overconfident that the Deathclaws wouldn’t be that much difficult to combat. This vault was running quite well for four days until it got its first Deathclaw attack. The Second Vault Merge Rooms first, then upgrade, ok. Each level has 2 lift slots and 8 single room slots that let you make 2 three-slot rooms and 1 two-slot room.Merge rooms first, then upgrade them for minimal expenditure.Planning your vault layout is important to save Caps in Fallout Shelter.It could have been made to work, but I was unhappy with the wasteful expenditure and decided to start over.


I had also upgraded some rooms before merging them so some rooms didn’t merge due to level difference. I had built single rooms next to each other and then deleted them to merge into bigger entities. It didn’t fail due to starvation or death of my dwellers but rather due to some poor planning decisions. It began with me blindly following the instructions of Fallout Shelter’s tutorial. These are the stories of my failures and the lessons I learnt from them in the quest for the perfect Fallout Shelter Vault design. I have been overseer for 4 vaults now and each has evolved to be planned better than the last. Every vault you fail at will teach you something new, until you finally build something lasting. Of course, no amount of ingame caps or real world money can let you buy your way out of a disaster. Fallout Shelter is free to play though you can pay for added conveniences. It is also a game of your failures simply because the only way to end the game is with the failure of your vault, or getting tired of managing it constantly and deleting the game. Fallout Shelter is perhaps one of the best video games to ever grace the mobile platform and at its core, it is a test of your management and planning skills.
