Fallout Shelter: Tips For Beginners

Match Dwellers to the Right Room

Fallout Shelter Tips for Beginners

Each of your dwellers in Fallout Shelter has SPECIAL stats, just like you fill out at the start of the mainstream series adventures. These directly affect how well they’ll perform in a particular resource room you put them into. What you want to do here is ensure that a dweller with a high Agility stat, for example, is placed into a Diner, as this requires the Agility stat to improve efficiency. Water treatment should be filled with dwellers high in Perception, while those in your Medbay should be high in Intelligence.

By doing this, you’ll reduce the countdown timers until that room will produce materials. The less time you have to wait until your next drop of resources, the better you’re going to do in Fallout Shelter. Make sure to keep on top of this as you progress, and don’t be afraid to move people around if it’ll make for a better, balanced income of resources for your shelter.

Complete Objectives Whenever Possible

Fallout Shelter Tips for Beginners

If you’ve been struggling to get enough money or items together to make any serious advances in Fallout Shelter, be sure you’re completing objectives whenever you get the chance. By doing so, you’ll be earning additional Caps and resources that you’d otherwise be completely missing out on. Complete as many objectives in Fallout Shelter as soon as you can and you’ll be able to expand your shelter far faster than you were able to previously.

What’s more, the objectives towards the start of the game are incredibly easy. This means you’ll likely complete a handful of them without even meaning to. Just make sure you’re claiming your hard-earned rewards every time.

Don’t Forget to Level Up Dwellers

Fallout Shelter Tips for Beginners

As your dwellers spend more time working and contributing to the success of your shelter, they’ll level up. They won’t do this themselves automatically, though. Instead, you’ll need to tap on any dweller that has an exclamation mark above their head.

In doing so, your dwellers will level up their SPECIAL stats, which can be particularly useful for productivity and resource management in Fallout Shelter. As soon as you see the exclamation mark above a dweller, give it a tap and reap the benefits.

Efficiently Plan Your Vault’s Layout

Fallout Shelter Tips for Beginners

As you earn more resources and are able to expand your shelter, take a moment to plan things out. If you’ve got a Water Treatment room on one side of the elevator and Diner on the other, don’t build anything else next to them. Instead, you can expand these rooms by placing the same room next to them. You can do this twice, and the resources you’ll get back from these larger rooms is far more lucrative than a bunch of smaller ones.

As such, make sure to dig down and use the elevators in Fallout Shelter. Sure, it may look a little messy at first, but after a while, your shelter will be a resource-making machine. If you need to shift things around, remember you can delete rooms, however, you’ll need to go without the income of resources from it until you build another.

Arm Your Dwellers ASAP

Fallout Shelter Tips for Beginners

When you start to send dwellers out into the wasteland, chances are you’ll get an influx of weapons in return. Rather than just keeping these in your inventory, though, get them into the hands of your adult dwellers as soon as you can. Your most powerful weapons should be going to those exploring the wasteland so they can protect themselves in the dangerous environment, however, anything leftover should be going to your other dwellers.

In doing so, your dwellers will be able to help defend the vault against attacks from Raiders, Deathclaws, and anything that else has your shelter in its sights. Suffering from an attack when you’re unprepared can have disastrous consequences for your shelter and those who inhabit it. Bolster your vault door’s defenses, arm your dwellers, and prepare for the worst.

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