Best Fallout Shelter layout: Tips, design ideas, more

Having the best Vault layout in Fallout Shelter not only makes a huge impact on Dwellers’ happiness but also their productivity. As you progress in the game, your Vault’s layout will evolve and expand due to the increased number of rooms and Dwellers to manage.

Since the main goal of the game is to construct and manage a Vault for your Dwellers, the Vault’s design isn’t merely about aesthetics; it significantly influences how fast you progress. So, here we have some tips for you to follow to create the best Vault possible at every stage of the game.

How to make the perfect Vault in Fallout Shelter

Best way to protect your Vault from raids in Fallout Shelter

To easily survive Raiders in Fallout Shelter, you must equip the topmost rooms with Dwellers with the highest Strength and Endurance stats as these rooms should be the ones producing food, water, and electricity.

The Dwellers in the topmost rooms should have guns and armor. Pregnant women and children do not fight, so avoid having them in the topmost rooms.

It is important to remember that Raiders and incidents such as fire, molerat infestation, and radroaches spawn and spread through rooms connected by dirt. To avoid this, you can place the most important rooms vertically and use elevators to connect them.

Unlocking Mister Handy and putting it on the initial floor is another tactic that can help you stop invaders with ease.

Best place for storage rooms, labs, and living quarters in Fallout Shelter

In order to make a perfect layout in Fallout Shelter, storage rooms, science labs, and living rooms should constitute the lowest layer of your Vault. This is because unlike the rooms for food, electricity, and water production, storage rooms, the former rooms are quiet and largely unused.

In case you face an electricity shortage, the rooms in the lowest layer are affected the most. That’s why it is wise to form your Vault’s base with unused rooms and place the most important ones at the top.

Fill the rightmost column with rooms that are used temporarily

Rooms like the Overseer’s Command Office, Athletics Room, Armory, Classroom, Game Room, and Barbershop should be on the rightmost column of your Vault. Since these rooms have occasional use and Dwellers the time taken to reach them isn’t a glaring issue.

If you’re planning to revamp your Vault, you’ll most likely need to remove the rightmost rooms first. Hence, it’s better to place the ones that aren’t integral to the Vault’s functionality.

Place production rooms close to each other

You can place production rooms like the Nuka-Cola bottler and the Nuclear Reactor close to each other. This way, Dwellers will quickly move between them, and the ones with the best stats will be together during invasions.

Separating production and training rooms will not only make your Vault look better but will also help you manage things easily.

Can you move rooms in Fallout Shelter?

No, you can’t move rooms in Fallout Shelter, so if you miss a spot, or wrongfully place a room where it wasn’t intended, your only choice is to delete it.

So, how can you delete rooms in Fallout Shelter?

Fallout Shelter: How to destroy rooms

To destroy a room in Fallout Shelter, players simply need to place themselves on the room they want to destroy, click, touch, or access the room Upgrade menu, and select destroy.

Keep in mind that destroying rooms only gives you back 20 caps, which is far less than what you spend on building it, so think twice about how to build your Vault, or use our tips and best layout found below.

Best Fallout Shelter Vault layout

Based on these tips and tricks, this is what an ideal Vault in Fallout Shelter would look like:

Top Layer:	The least important rooms like Storages, Medbay, Science Lab, and Medbays.
Middle Layer:	Rooms with occasional uses like Barbershop, Radio, Learning, Fitness Room, Weight Room, and Lounge. You can leave some additional slots for resource production rooms here.
Bottom Layer:	Least important rooms such as Storages, Medbay, Science Lab, and Medbays.

While you start perfecting your Vault, here’s all about the save editor and how to heal Dwellers to keep them happy.