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InFallout Shelter, you’ll need to build plenty of rooms to help obtain resources and keep your Vault Dwellers safe. Each room has a different purpose, which will add to the overall success of your vault. Building these rooms is vital to expanding your Vault and making the most of your Dwellers' SPECIAL skills.
We’ll break down each of the rooms you can build, what they cost, and what they do, so you can design the Vault of your dreams. You can even merge rooms to maximize efficiency. Here’s everything you need to know about building rooms in Fallout Shelter.
How To Build Rooms
Rooms can be built bytapping on the hammer iconon the bottom right-hand side of the screen. From there, you canselect any available roomand build it so long as you have the space.
To unlock more rooms, you’ll need to increase the number of Dwellers in your vault!
Below is a table of all the rooms you may build and what they do:
Size
Vault Door
The Vault door connects your Vault to the wasteland and is a fixed point of entry.
500 caps
2,000 caps
2
100 caps
1/3
Living Quarters
Increases the capacity of Dwellers in the Vault. Assigning two Dwellers of the opposite sex here may result in children.
1,500 caps
1-3
500 caps
1,500 caps
300 caps
750 caps
400 caps
1,000 caps
3,000 caps
3,500 caps
15,000 caps
Radio Studio
Increases Dweller happiness and broadcasts a signal into the wasteland to contact potential Dwellers.
600 caps
4,500 caps
800 caps
8,000 caps
60,000 caps
3
1,200 caps
12,000 caps
90,000 caps
3,200 caps
16,000 caps
120,000 caps
10,000 caps
50,000 caps
9,000 caps
9,000 caps
Produces Food and Water for the Vault.
45,000 caps
The cost of a room will increase each time you build one, so plan your layout carefully.
Rooms can be upgraded twiceto reach level three, where they will bemore efficient at producingthe corresponding resources.
What Is The Max Room Size?
The maximum room size in Fallout Shelter isthree merged rooms, meaning that a standard room willconnect to two adjoining roomsof the same type tocreate one massive room. This enhances efficiency of the corresponding resource produced there.
Some rooms, like the different workshops,only come in the largest size, so you’ll need to plan accordingly if you want to place them in your Vault. Others can be upgraded accordingly later on.
How To Merge Rooms
To merge rooms, you’ll need tobuild two of the same type of roomright next to each other. They willautomatically join togetherand create one larger room.
The rooms must be at the same level, so try upgrading the new room if it won’t join with the previous one.
Merging rooms is a great way toincrease efficiency, improve storage, and create more spacesfor Vault Dwellers to work.
