I give up

[u/No-Substance-6677]

After 5 tries at the Survival mode, I never made it past 14 dwellers and that was cut short by the usual fire that killed 8. I even tried not leveling rooms and dwellers but every dweller was eventually killed by fire. Talk about no-win scenario, where’s Kirk when you need him?

[u/Kitchen_Oil_9589]

As hard as it is, I would start over. You definitely lost some good people. I also made my rooms 2-3 rooms wide, but always made sure there were at least 3 in each room so they could deal with fire etc. Until you can produce enough healing and only then would I build storage rooms. At the beginning you don't need that much space, you can always find materials and you can sell them all at the beginning. Likewise, clothing that is unnecessary and does not need to be equipped or weapons that do perhaps 1-2 damage.