


To get exploring, drag the Dweller you want to send out to an area outside the vault. You should always have a team looking for goodies, as the benefits far outweigh the risks. Exploring the wasteland is incredibly beneficial for your vault and its inhabitants, as doing so not only increases their XP, but you also have the chance to scavenge Caps in the process. Popping on your explorer's hatĪn aspect of Fallout Shelter that's easily overlooked in the opening hours is exploration. One other technique you can try is to Rush production, but failing a Rush usually ends up with the room exploding or being infested or some other horrible thing, so you'll need to be confident the Rush is worth it. You must have Dwellers in a room to produce resources from it, but if you add more staff you'll produce the resource much faster, and larger rooms (constructed by placing two or more similar rooms together) allow for more people. Straight out of the gate you'll want to build at least one of every resource-producing room, and as you get further you'll want to always ensure you're not producing too much of one resource at the expense of others. Water and Food keep your Dwellers fighting fit, so if you don't have any Food in your stores, for example, your people will begin to lose health from starvation. Energy keeps the lights in your vault on, and without it your rooms will produce resources inefficiently.

The three key resources are Energy, Water, and Food. Resources are incredibly important for the overall well-being of your Dwellers, and early in the game you'll want to focus on ensuring you have a good amount of resources constantly coming in. I've been ploughing a bunch of time into building up my vault already, so I thought I'd share with you my top tips for squeezing the most out of the game and ensuring your dwellers live happy, healthy, prosperous little lives, after the apocalypse.

Though that may be some way out, in the meantime iOS (and soon, Android) gamers have Fallout Shelter to keep them busy. Bethesda announced at E3 that Fallout 4 would be coming to consoles and PCs in November.
