Use RadAway and Stimpaks to keep your Dwellers at peak health because that can affect their happiness too.Ī Dweller dies when their hit points are depleted.

Run low on WATER and your Dwellers will accumulate Radiation permanently lowering their maximum hit points, until manually treated. Run low on FOOD and your Dwellers will begin to lose Health. The higher their level is, the more hit points they have.ĭwellers need food and clean water to stay healthy. Leveling increases the health of a Dweller and gives you a sum of caps equivalent to the level reached. Dwellers Happiness increases when they are provided for, safe from harm and or placed in the rooms that best suited for their SPECIAL stats.ĭwellers level up over time by gaining new experience through work in Production Rooms, scavenging in the Wasteland, successfully rushing or after dealing with incidents. Keeping Dwellers happy is very important! A happy Vault runs more efficiently and produces resources faster. Note that this takes a fair amount of (real) time and take care not to pull dwellers in important places off duty.ĭepending on what you ask your Dwellers to do, they can become happy or sad. Alternatively you can use different outfits for temporary boost to SPECIAL stats. The higher the SPECIAL stat of a Dweller is, the longer it takes to train them to the next level. Once you've added enough dwellers to your vault, you can build training rooms that will increase particular Special stats.

While Exploring Luck increases chances to get better gear faster.Īll SPECIAL statistics can be improved. In quests or the wasteland it determines how many shots you can fire before the enemy does.ĭecrease chance of Rushing production failure. Nuka-Cola bottler or Exploring the Wasteland.Įndurance Reduces damage/radiation taken.

When VATS is activated in combat, the speed at which the gauge moves is slowed. Higher level Dwellers with high SPECIAL have a better chance of surviving in the Wasteland. While assigning the dwellers to jobs they're most suited for, as determined by their strongest SPECIAL stats increase their happiness.Īdditionally, each SPECIAL stat increases a Dweller's effectiveness in the Wasteland in its own way. The better the Dweller's stat is for that room, the more they influence the room's effects. Every room in the Vault is linked to one of the SPECIAL stats.

SPECIAL stats determine which jobs the dwellers most suited for. Each Vault Dweller has its own SPECIAL stats and characteristics, these govern the different aspects of life in the vault, and making the best use of your dwellers abilities is key to their ongoing happiness and your vault efficiency.

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