Like many of you, I’ve been completely hooked on Bethesda’s Fallout Shelter game for iOS. It’s addictive, and silly, and artistically well done. I even like, for the most part, the way they kept the in-game tutorial really breif and let you figure things out on your own. After a couple of play throughs though, I noticed they added a bunch of really great tips into the loading screens. Since these weren’t collected anywhere easy to see, I thought I’d rip open the app file (which is cleverly named “underground.ipa” btw) and compile the tips into one big list. I’ve added emphasis to the tips that I found particularly helpful.
- Successfully Rushing will give you the room’s regular rewards plus a special bonus! [Doc’s note: Do this frequently… Seriously like anytime the risk is below 50%. It’s an easy way of generating CAPS and experience with very little damage to your dwellers]
- Assign Dwellers to production rooms to obtain resources.
- Rooms run on Power. Dwellers run on Food and Water.
- Dwellers with high Strength perform better on Power rooms.
- Dwellers with high Perception perform better in Water rooms.
- Dwellers with high Agility perform better in Food rooms.
- Build a Medbay to produce Stimpaks.
- Build a Science Lab to produce RadAways.
- Upgrading a room will make it more efficient and give you more storage.
- The Weight Room will allow you to train a Dweller’s Strength.
- The Armory room will allow you to train a Dweller’s Perception.
- The Fitness Room will allow you to train a Dweller’s Endurance.
- The Lounge will allow you to train a Dweller’s Charisma.
- The Classroom will allow you to train a Dweller’s Intelligence.
- The Athletics Room will allow you to train a Dweller’s Agility.
- Successfully Rushing will give you the room’s regular rewards plus a special bonus!
- The Game Room will allow you to train a Dweller’s Luck.
- Build Storage Rooms to increase your Vault’s Weapon and Outfit holding capacity.
- There are higher tier versions of the production rooms that are more efficient, but more expensive.
- If you are out of building space on a floor, build an elevator to access lower parts of your Vault.
- Build Medbays and Science Labs to increase your limit of Stimpaks and RadAways.
- Rooms farthest from a power source will shut down first.
- The longer a Dweller survives in the Wasteland, the better gear they will find.
- When a room finishes production, you have a chance to get bonus CAPS based on the Dwellers
- Tap a Dweller’s SPECIAL chart for more details.
- During a Raider attack, flashing resource bars means they are stealing your resources!
- When a Dweller is assigned to the Radio room it will increase all Vault Dwellers happiness.
- You can rename a Dweller by tapping their name on the Dweller information pop-up.
- You can skip 1 Objective each day by tapping the X on the Objective screen.
- If a room is full of Dwellers, the Dweller with the lowest stat for that room will swap places with the new Dweller.
- You can get free Lunchboxes for completing some Objectives. [Doc’s note: focus on these types of objectives… These specific tasks can often result in 500 CAPS or special Dwellers with high stats & accessories]
- Confused how something works? Check the VDSG in the Pip-Boy for help.
- You can assign Dwellers to the Vault entrance to act as guards.
- Upgrading your Vault entrance will make it harder for Raiders to break in.
- Need extra CAPS? You can sell weapons and outfits from your Vault storage.
- Higher level Dwellers with high SPECIAL have a better chance of surviving in the Wasteland.
- You can sort the Dweller list by tapping on the column names.
- Tap on the resource bars at the top of the screen for more details on your resource storage.
- Your Dweller does not suffer damage or radiation when returning from the Wasteland.
- Each SPECIAL stat increases a Dweller’s effectiveness in the Wasteland in its own way.
- To quickly check on your Dwellers exploring, just tap directly on the Wasteland.
- Raiders can strike any time, be sure to have Dwellers ready and on guard!
- Radio rooms attract new Dwellers and improve the happiness in your Vault.
- A nuclear winter is cold, keep warm with Vault-Tec!
- Vault-Tec. We’ll be there! Vault-Tec.
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