What is resource usage based on in Fallout Shelter?
In Fallout: Shelter, managing the three available resources (Power, Food, Water) is an important mechanic. However, I'm not quite sure what determines the usage of these resources.
For food and water, I would expect it to be based on the amount of dwellers in the entire vault. However, it doesn't sound completely unreasonable that the function of some rooms may increase water usage.
What is food and water consumption based on?
Power ought to be tied to the production that goes on in the vault. But it isn't clear if empty rooms use power at the same rate as rooms being used (or at all). If so, the advice commonly given to not get too many dwellers too quickly could also hold true for rooms. Also, elevators may or may not use power.
How is power usage determined?
Best Answer
The game actually lists production and consumption rate totals for the resources.
Watching these closely as I built a vault from scratch, checking after each added room and during certain conditions I found the following,
Each dweller costs 0.36 food and water per minute. Children and adults cost the same. Explorers do not consume food and water.
Single rooms cost 0.52, double rooms cost 1.08 (+0.56) triple rooms cost 1.70 (+0.62)
Shut down rooms (like when at low power), elevators, and the vault door cost nothing.
I have yet to complete figuring out upgraded rooms. I also haven't checked advanced rooms, only the basic ones so far, quarters, diner, water, generator, elevators, and vault door. Once I complete advanced rooms and upgrades on the pc, I'll compare to my phone vaults for accuracy.
version 1.7.2 on pc Note, I did find that the listed rates occasionally vary by a point. I suspect this to be a floating point rounding error.
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How do resources work in fallout shelter?
All three basic resources are depleted at a constant rate and replenished by completing a production cycle in the appropriate rooms. They continue to be depleted for a short time after turning the game off. To prevent problems with your dwellers, keep a surplus of all three when turning Shelter off.Why are my resources so low fallout shelter?
The app will actually keep recording resource usage after you close it for a short time. This is why resources tend to be low when you first load the app. You can solve this by having extra resource rooms and only closing the app when you are near 100% capacity.How do you not lose resources in fallout shelter?
Go to the bottom right corner and click on the pip boy. The first option lets you log out. Click on the gears symbol then main menu. After that you can click out of the game and it won't keep running forever depleting all resources.What happens if you run out of resources in fallout shelter?
Primary resources If power runs low, rooms will begin shutting down. Rooms which are most distant from the generator room(s) will shut down first. Water: Clean water is hard to come by in the wasteland. Running low on water will result in the vault dwellers taking radiation damage.COME AVERE CESTINI E TAPPI INFINITI SU FALLOUT SHELTER (NO HACK)
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Answer 2
The usage is determined by how many dwellers you have in your vault. Kids take up more usage then adults!
Answer 3
I seem to experience that I can run my vault fewer dwellers working in the power plant, the fewer dwellers are in my vault (number of rooms being the same). The more dwellers I have exploring, the less power my rooms use. It would make sense that a gym with two dwellers working out would use less power than a gym with 6 dwellers working out.
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