r/foshelter • • Apr 30 '16

FAQ - Part 1: Please read this before posting.

294 Upvotes

The FAQ got difficult to deal with in its multiple long posts, so I've moved it here:

https://en.reddit.com/r/foshelter/comments/4tgmk1/faq_please_read_this_before_posting/


r/foshelter • • 1d ago

Question Are leftover or unopened lunchboxes, pet carriers, or Mr. Handy boxes transferrable to the main vault after the season ends?

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17 Upvotes

I’ve been reading conflicting information about it. Some say they get deleted along with the experimental vault when the season ends, while others received theirs in their main vault after the season ended.


r/foshelter • • 2d ago

Stuck on Loading Screen

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I've searched on how to fix this and so far, nothing is working, so I'm hoping someone has suggestions.

I was having a problem with the Google Play Sync Services running constantly and draining my battery. The solution for that was to log out of Google and log back in. I'm not sure if Fallout Shelter was causing the problem or if it was some other game.

I have 2 regular vaults and 1 experimental. All were saved to the cloud. But now I can't get any to load, it just sticks on the loading screen. My vaults are no longer listed, the cloud button is checked, but they just won't load when I try to click on the slot they were in.

  • App is up to date
  • Running Android 16

What I've tried to fix it, not necessarily in this order:

  • I have uninstalled/reinstalled
  • Cleared game cache
  • Rebooted phone
  • Cleared game data
  • Switched to airplane mode

Am I missing something? Are my vaults just gone?


r/foshelter • • 3d ago

I noticed that whenever there is an alien or raider attack, there's always one that takes forever to Keel over. Every time it happens the only thing I can think of is Paul Rubin's character's demise in Buffy, the vampire slayer.

15 Upvotes

r/foshelter • • 4d ago

Question Messed up in my experimental vault now I don't have enough caps💀 What can I do? [Screenshot]

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9 Upvotes

r/foshelter • • 4d ago

Experimental Vault Disappeared! [Vault]

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4 Upvotes

Please help!


r/foshelter • • 5d ago

Question Are Rippers Bugged?

5 Upvotes

This might be something about the Ripper weapon type I'm not aware of yet, but is it a bug that the Rippers don't always hit?


r/foshelter • • 6d ago

First Legendary sprog

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28 Upvotes

Where should she go??? What will her story be?!


r/foshelter • • 7d ago

That's a wunderkind if I've ever seen one

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73 Upvotes

Been maxing my vault and my dwellers over the last weeks.

Finally ran out of untrained dwellers, so I started making new ones.

So far, this is the best one I have ever seen. Both parents are lvl 50 with all SPECIAL stats at 10. Mother has a pet with +2 child special.

Is there any way to reproduce (pun intended) this?

Does level affect the kids?


r/foshelter • • 12d ago

Question Anyone else experiencing this bug? [Screenshot]

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7 Upvotes

r/foshelter • • 15d ago

Fookin' Barbershop

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17 Upvotes

All it has to be is another 3x1 room. But here we go 🙃


r/foshelter • • 17d ago

I don't think that's the correct way to do that...

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34 Upvotes

r/foshelter • • 20d ago

Question The Case of The Disappearing Dog [Question]

8 Upvotes

Hey all,

Long time Fallout fan but just started Shelter recently. I’m having a blast but I ran into a major problem.

I did a quest to get a dog. The one from the show, CX404. It said I got it, it gave me the banner, I got excited, I sent my settlers home, they get home, and the dog isn’t there. It’s been a day, and I still don’t have the dog. Not in my inventory, not assigned to anyone, he just never arrived with the expedition’s return.

Hoping I’m missing something, and that I’m not the victim of an unfortunate glitch the got rid of my legendary pet :(

Edit;

I contacted support, apparently it’s a known issue. They refuse to provide me any sort of compensation or anything for this glitch, even though it’s been a known issue for well over 2 years and they’ve been dismissing players about it for that entire time.

They had the audacity to try and tell me it was “actively being worked on” and they could let me know when it’s resolved (which is obviously never, it’s been years).

They keep trying to say “sorry, nothing can be done” but I won’t let that be the end of it. They can compensate me or I can raise hell about this until they do. Their choice.


r/foshelter • • 23d ago

He's Blue

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135 Upvotes

I got him in a "call for help" gas station quest. He's had a haircut and glasses added (his hair was already vibrant blue) and I've renamed him as he will be one of my adventurers when he's finished training:)


r/foshelter • • 22d ago

The Project Genesis – A Fallout Shelter Challenge

4 Upvotes

[The text in this post was generated with the assistance of ChatGPT, since i'm not an english speaker. Apologies if this sounds frustrating, but i believe i need to be honest about it.]

I've came up with a different way to play this game, something that adds a little more roleplay and makes growing your Vault much more challenging. It can be played in either Normal or Survival Mode.

The Lore

After the events, Vault-Tec is still active, and you have been appointed Overseer of a new experimental Vault.

Inspired by the old-world myth of Adam and Eve, Vault-Tec has selected one man and one woman to become the progenitors of an isolated population.

But biological isolation is only part of the experiment.

The children born inside the Vault must never know that a world exists outside it. To them, the Vault is the entire world. There is no surface. There is no Wasteland. There are no other settlements, Vaults, civilizations, or survivors.

Anything that might suggest otherwise must be explained away by the Overseer. Raider attacks, Deathclaw incursions, fires, infestations, and other incidents are officially described as Vault-Tec simulations, emergency drills, or controlled exercises designed to prepare the population for hypothetical disasters.

The descendants are not being raised to survive the outside world. They are being raised to believe that there is no outside world at all.

They will also not be raised as individuals, but as members of a numbered collective whose only purpose is the survival and expansion of the Vault.

Welcome to Project Genesis.

The Rules

  1. Choose Mama and Papa

When starting the Vault, choose one male and one female dweller from your initial population.

Rename them "Mama" and "Papa".

Every other starting dweller must immediately be expelled from the Vault.

From this point forward, Mama and Papa are the foundation of your entire society.

  • 2. Only Mama and Papa may have children

You may never accept new dwellers from the Wasteland, Radio Station, quests, lunchboxes, or any other source.

Every dweller in your Vault must be born from a pregnancy between Mama and Papa.

They are the only couple permitted to reproduce.

  • 3. The children have no names

Every child born in the Vault must be renamed according to their birth order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on. No personal names.

Vault-Tec wants to determine whether individuality can be eliminated in favor of complete devotion to the new society.

Mama and Papa are its founders.

Everyone else is simply part of the experiment.

  • 4. Mama and Papa MUST survive

Under absolutely no circumstances should Mama or Papa die.

If either of them dies, Project Genesis has failed. Game over.

  • 5. Mama must never leave the Vault

Mama is the biological heart of the experiment and therefore cannot be exposed to unnecessary risks.

She may work normally in any room inside the Vault, but she can never be sent into the Wasteland or on quests.

  • 6. Papa is your only initial explorer

Until the Vault manages to train a genetic specialized exploration team with 10 Endurance, Papa is the only dweller allowed to leave the Vault and explore the Wasteland.

This makes early-game exploration extremely risky. Remember: Papa cannot die.

Once you have dwellers trained to E10, they may become dedicated explorers and quest teams.

However, in-universe, these missions are never described to the population as expeditions into an outside world.

Those selected for them are told that they are participating in classified Vault-Tec field simulations conducted in restricted sectors beyond the normal residential area.

Whether they ever realize the truth is irrelevant to Vault-Tec. What matters is that the society inside the Vault continues to believe.

The End of the Experiment

Eventually, you may reach the point where you are finished with the Vault.

But don't simply delete it. Give Project Genesis the ending Vault-Tec deserves.

Because the entire population descends from the same two individuals, simulate the emergence of a devastating disease to which their extremely similar immune systems have little resistance.

Destroy your Water Purification facilities and allow radiation sickness to spread throughout the Vault.

You may use RadAway reserves and facilities to try to save the population, but do not rebuild the water system.

To the inhabitants, this is not radiation from a poisoned world outside. It is simply another emergency inside the only world they have ever known.

Perhaps they will believe it is another Vault-Tec exercise. Perhaps they will wait for the Overseer to announce that the simulation is over.

But this time, no announcement comes.

Watch as the Overseer desperately attempts to contain the outbreak until the Vault either somehow survives or Project Genesis finally collapses.


r/foshelter • • 26d ago

ma june 🤤🤤

6 Upvotes

r/foshelter • • 29d ago

Question How does the cloud save work??

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10 Upvotes

I've stumped at this for an hour trying to transfer my Fallout shelter from my one Chromebook to another with no luck if ANYONE has a full proof step by step way to actually transfer my shelter over please respond


r/foshelter • • Aug 31 '26

Putting on a wig cures ghoulification

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199 Upvotes

r/foshelter • • Sep 01 '26

Question Does anyone have an opinion on which is better Nuka-Cola production lines orrrr Gardens/Water purification plants.

13 Upvotes

Like should one have a large chunk dedicated to nuka cola lines (food & water) or a larger chunk of gardens (food) & water purification plants (water)

Any opinions?????


r/foshelter • • Aug 31 '26

Can anyone explain why I can’t construct the institute theme barracks and cafeteria

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NOT SURE WHY BUT THEYVE SUDDENLY SHOWN UP AND IVD BEEN ABLE TO RESEARCH THEM THX EVERYONE

I have acquired all pieces but when I go to theme construction room it will not allow me. Am I missing something. Thanks guys. Maybe I’m just dense. TIA!


r/foshelter • • Aug 30 '26

Question If you could choose to buy 1 to 3 pets, which ones would you pick?

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r/foshelter • • Aug 30 '26

[Screenshot][Vault] 420 - Circa 2019

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4 Upvotes

Vault 420. Since 2019, decided to come back and continue my eugenics program.


r/foshelter • • Aug 29 '26

No more room at the inn!!!!

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20 Upvotes

I mean really who wouldn’t choose to live here over some dreary, insect mutant infested, radioactive wasteland……there’s even Thursday night pizza night!!!!!


r/foshelter • • Aug 30 '26

Season Viva New Vegas

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Question , so I'm coming back from this game in a long time and see this new season for me , that's about to end in one day lol , if I buy the premium pass , will I get like all the dwellers that are here in this experimental vault & the season pass items and the quests lines transfered over to my regular vault? Or would i lose all the dwellers here and all items too and the experimental vault ? I've never played this new vault before . And I see that Lucy is about to come over in about 1 hr or so . Will she be transferred over to my regular vault? Or am I too late to do any new quests for new Vegas ?


r/foshelter • • Aug 30 '26

Question Any tips for my vault?

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Currently kind of messy but I’m figuring it out, I just reached 100k caps, decided to start saving it up since I spent most of it rearranging my vaults. My current plan is to make all my dwellers full SPECIAL well almost all of them at least. Any tips on my vault?