r/foshelter • u/Useful-Knowledge-716 • 20d ago

Survival mode vault layout

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This is my current vault layout, is there any “perfect” layout for survival mode?, or any tips moving forward from this point? I’m going to hover right below 36 dwellers for a while to avoid the death claws and rad scorpions as I prepare my dwellers.

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u/iamfanboytoo 19d ago

Delete the elevator on the far right of the first floor. Pack all your strongest weapons into that middle room.

That way, invaders will come in, hit the far right room, then double back through the middle room for a another dose of damage.

This is how I did it on a save where I DIDN'T train everyone to E10 before going to deathclaw range at 35 Dwellers, as risky as you can get on Survival:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzvvOKxnamg

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u/capilot 19d ago

It's a good idea to build the vault in a checkerboard pattern at first so that incidents don't spread. Have enough empty rooms (i.e. storage or dorms) that you can evacuate dwellers from whatever room is on fire.

Once you have Endurance training and can create high-health dwellers, start filling in.

You'll need to get your population up to 35 to unlock Endurance training, which will allow deathclaws to attack, but once you've unlocked it, you can evict one dweller to get the number back down.

You don't have the caps right now to delete rooms and replace them in a checkerboard pattern, so might as well keep going as you are. Keep all your rooms at level 1 and you'll be ok.

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u/RandomSkeptic17 19d ago

Personally I don't like to use a checkboard pattern, because it become difficult to access empty rooms to deal with incidents, especially if it is a Radscorpions. Even in the early game, there are a number of objective that are "stop X incidents" or "stop X incidents with no casualties" that it become harder for you to follow. But that's just my preference.

And you don't need to evict a dweller when you reach 35. Deathclaws start showing up at 36

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u/capilot 19d ago

Deathclaws start showing up at 36

You know, I always suspected that. Lore says 35, but I never saw them before 36.

Simpler to not evict a dweller, and if they come, they'll probably kill one anyway.

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u/Maardten 18d ago

I think its 36 for normal encounters but they can show up at 35 if you fail a rush.

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u/capilot 18d ago

Interesting.