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Last update:01 June 2016
Dwellers are the basic propeller of the Vault.
Seven most important statistics describing your dwellers are indicated by the acronym S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
Each letter stands for one of specifics skills of a dweller that are crucial to develop and survive.
It is also useful when working in “Nuka Cola Bottler” room.
Only training lets you permanently improve any of your skill.
The bigger your training rooms are, the more dwellers can work out at the same time.
“Upgrade” option shorten the time that they need to do it.
It depends on the start level how long it will take to jump to the next level, e.g.
Additionally, dwellers work a bit faster when there is more than one of them in the room.
After training punch appropriate icon to get to permanently improve your skill.
After completing the tutorial amount of dwellers coming from the outside will drastically decrease.
Female gets pregnant that way and after 4 hours she will bore a baby.
take a stab at match parents with best statistics - one of them will be inherited by the baby.
After next 3-4 hours it will grow up and become an adult.
Another way to gain new dwellers is attracting them by using the radio.
you could unlock it when you have at least 20 dwellers.
If you improve it, its signal will be more effective.
Otherwise, the counter starts to count from the beginning.
Dwellers with a high charisma factor should work in the radio room.
If there are too many pregnant women, your signal decreases nearly totally.
Pregnant women differ from other dwellers.
In both cases the only action taken by them will be panic and attempt to escape.
Pregnant women can’t die.
Children are not able to work or fight against disasters.
It is also not possible to assign weapons or outfits to any of them.
Likewise adults though they use a water and a food.
you could punch a child to check how much time left until it becomes an adult.
When it happens, you gain another productive dweller in your Vault.
Until that moment it can’t be killed.
Every dweller can be equipped with a gun and an outfit.
Outfit (while is worn) can improve some of the dweller’s statistics.
Appropriate usage of outfits lets you increase efficiency of your workers noticeably regarding to statistics useful in their work.
Weapons and Outfits can be found on wasteland, won from the lunchboxes or got along with won dwellers.
In a lunchbox you could also find a Rare or Legendary Dwellers.
Legendary Dwellers can also answer you radio signal and come from the outside, but it happens very rarely.
They always have a legendary weapon or/and outfit.
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