Do exploring dwellers require food and water?
If I send a dweller out to explore. Does she still consume food and water which I produce.
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As near as I can tell, no. At the very least they aren't harmed if you're not producing enough. During one self-inflicted crisis where I was struggling to get production balanced, I ran out of water for an extended period. My entire populace at the vault ended up suffering around 50% radiation sickness and their happiness fell to 10%. The one vault dweller who was out exploring at the time didn't suffer any radiation sickness and her happiness remained at 75%. So it doesn't appear that they consume any food or water.
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What happens if you run out of food Fallout Shelter?
Running low on food will make them begin to lose health.What happens if you run out of food and water Fallout Shelter?
Build 3 power room beside each other and it will be merged in 1 big room. Do the same for food and water. You can send at least five vault dwellers out into the wasteland to search for items to bring back to the vault.How long should dwellers explore?
My longest runs so far are around 36 hours of exploration and 18 hours return trip. The low level luck people I used to send out would still bring back rusty whatever guns and BB guns even towards the end of their trips. They did some times come back with a nice rifle or the like but that was rare.Can you get dwellers from exploring?
The exploration log. Exploring is an assignment you can give in Fallout Shelter. It sends out the selected Vault dweller out into the hostile wasteland to scavenge for supplies.Fallout Shelter Beginner Tips: 19 Quick Tips for New Overseers
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Answer 2
In additional confirmation to the other answers, I have another supporting data point. I was just on the edge of critical levels of water when I sent a dweller out of my 16 member vault. As soon as they left, the water levels jumped from red to green, without any additional production.
Answer 3
I'm using Fallout Shelter on PC. I don't know about the mobile version but I get stats including resource production and resource consumption. Let's experiment. I already have every non-essential dweller out of the vault right now. This means only primary resource producers are still here. I will give you the stats of my food and water production at current, then I will send out a power plant worker and give you the new stats.
Current Production/Consumption:
Food: 15.59/6.84
Water: 13.79/6.84
ALERT!! RAIDER ATTACK IN PROGRESS (EXPERIMENT ON HOLD)
ATTENTION PLEASE: THE SITUATION HAS BEEN NEUTRALIZED. PLEASE RETURN TO DUTY.
Production/Consumption levels unchanged. Lets send out a level 10 Power Plant worker.
New Production/Consumption:
Food: 15.59/6.48
Water: 13.79/6.48
The vault is now consuming 0.36 less resources. Lets remove one more to see if that's typical per dweller or if level has anything to do with it.
Sending out a level 4 Power Plant worker
New consumption falls to 6.12 making it another drop of 0.36. This means each dweller sent to the wasteland consumes the same amount less. Hope this helps.
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