Make Sure To Update These Rooms First In Fallout Shelter

Summary

• Focus on upgrading Overseer's Office for more quests.
• Build and upgrade Weapons Workshop for defense.
• Vault Door keeps bad guys out, upgrade for safety.

As the population of your Vault grows in Fallout Shelter, you will begin to unlock new rooms that you can build onto your underground oasis. From Medbays to your very own Nuka Cola plant, every room is responsible for helping you gain a different kind of resource or service.

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Get your Vault started right!

While the game has a helpful tutorial that gets you started, it fails to explain which rooms you should focus on upgrading first. With your Caps, at times, hard to come by and different consequences for going without certain resources, it helps to have some guidance, especially as you're starting out. This list will get you building in the right direction.

This list ranks rooms based on their benefits to your Vault as a whole.

10 Overseer's Office

The Overseer's Office might sound like a selfish choice. Considering, well, you're playing as the Overseer. However, you wouldn't be upgrading purely for your own benefit.

When you upgrade your Office, you go from being able to go on one quest at a time to two on your second upgrade and three on your third and final. This will let you send Vault Dwellers out on missions to collect resources they bring back to the Vault.

9 Weapons Workshop

Look, you won't get far without some weapons around. Different incidents will occur that will require your Dwellers to fight a host of enemies, from the pesky to the fatal.

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Time to get crafty!

While Dwellers can use their fists, you'll want to arm as many of them as you can. And while you can find guns out in the wasteland or while on quests, it will make things easier in the long run if you build and quickly upgrade your Weapons Workshop.

8 Vault Door

Your Vault Door is the only thing keeping outside forces from breaking into and causing chaos inside your Vault. When the game is first starting, you won't face many outside encounters. But once you've spent some time playing the game, Raiders and even Deathclaws will try to break down your door.

The more you upgrade your Vault Door, the longer it will take for these bad guys to bust in. That gives you time to move your Dwellers around or give them weapons or armor to be better prepared.

Each room can be upgraded a total of three times. Their production and storage (where applicable) will increase with each upgrade.

7 Storage Room

You're going to get real tired of seeing Vault Boy every time your storage space is running low. Though, of course, that isn't the only reason to upgrade your Storage Rooms on the double.

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One vault dweller's trash is another vault dweller's treasure.

Every weapon, piece of armor, junk, and animal counts against your storage total. And while you can sell or scrap your weapons and armor, there are going to be things you want to hold on to, especially as your population grows. So make some space to keep it all locked away safely.

6 Science Lab

You know one of the most bummer things about living in a world ravaged by nuclear fallout? The radiation. But the smart folks in the Science Lab will make you plenty of RadAways.

RadAway will remove any radiation poisoning your Dwellers are experiencing. Each time you upgrade this room, the Dwellers working in it will produce additional RadAways plus your Vault will have more storage for these helpful items.

5 Medbay

The Medbay functions similarly to the Science Lab. Only instead of RadAways, they make Stimpaks. And Stimpaks will restore the health of any Dweller that uses it.

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While health does regenerate over time, as incidents become more often and more deadly, you'll need Stimpaks more often than you'll need RadAways.

4 Nuka Cola Bottler

This is the last room you unlock and, as you might guess, it is the most expensive room to build and upgrade. But the reason you'll want to focus on getting this room as upgraded as possible is because it supplies your vault with both food and water.

Food and water are two of the three main resources you'll be producing in your Vault. So having a room that can provide you with both is extremely efficient and useful. Just know, it may take a long time to have enough Caps to do it.

3 Food Rooms

There are two kinds of food producing rooms; Diners and Gardens. Food is important to your Vault because it will keep your Dwellers healthy. Meaning, it will keep their health bars full and help them heal from attacks.

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While Gardens are the better of the two types of rooms, Gardens are more expensive and unlocked much later in your progression. So, while you wait to unlock it, upgrade your Diners instead.

2 Water Rooms

Like with the food rooms, there are two rooms devoted to generating water for your Vault. The Water Treatment and Water Purification rooms. These rooms keep your Dwellers radiation exposure down.

You start with the Water Treatment plant unlocked while the Purification room is unlocked later. So, just like with Diners, focus on the Treatment rooms first and then start upgrading your Water Purification rooms once you have them unlocked and built.

1 Power Rooms

The Power Generator is one of the most important rooms in the game. It only gets replaced by the Nuclear Reactor once you've hit a population of 60 Dwellers.

Without power, none of your rooms can function. So, to keep the lights on, you'll want to constantly be adding power rooms to your Vault and upgrading them before all other rooms.

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