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Fallout Shelter: Best mods & how to install

Stephanie Zucarelli
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Fallout Shelter mods can greatly help you skip time restrictions, resource limits and even buff your Dwellers to optimize their tasks. Here’s every mod you should try for Fallout Shelter.

Fallout Shelter players have created a long list of mods to better customize their Vaults and even remove some pesky restrictions that limit the game. If you’re wondering which are the best mods to make the best out of your Dwellers, here’s a list of which you should give a go.

Best Mods in Fallout Shelter

Most Fallout Shelter mods are dedicated to allowing players to tune their experience and disable most restrictions from the original game. If you’re wondering which are the best to try out, here’s a list of the first you should get for your Fallout Shelter Vault.

Fallout Shelter Modpack

The Fallout Shelter Modpack is the most popular collection of mods mainly dedicated to removing any time or resource restriction. Here’s the list of what it includes:

  • Coffee break button: Adds a button to a working dweller which can be used to send a dweller to a coffee break.
  • No destroy restriction: Destroy any kind of room anywhere.
  • Disable automatic camera movement
  • Disable rats appearing in empty rooms.
  • 100% scraping rate: Scraping items give their crafting materials.
  • Instant breeding: Dwellers mate instantly.
  • Instant crafting: Crafting rooms craft instantly.
  • Child dwellers grow up instantly.
  • Quest teams travel instantly.
  • Instant room rushes.
  • Instant training.
  • Exploring dwellers find a random quest as soon as they leave the vault.
  • Exploring dwellers return instantly to the vault.
  • Allow more MrHandies per floor.
  • Changes the timing of the Mysterious Stranger.
  • Family relations don’t matter when dwellers are finding partners.
  • Disables controller vibration.
  • Living quarters don’t limit the number of dwellers you can have.
  • MrHandies can collect an infinite amount of caps while exploring the Wasteland.
  • No random vault incidents.
  • Every room is unlocked by default.
  • Infinite storage count which doesn’t depend on storage rooms.
  • Disable pet data verification to be able to edit it with a save editor.
  • No wasteland explorer limit.
  • Nuka factories produce quantum instead of food and water.
  • Remove 200 dweller cap.
  • Removes pet limitations (equips every dweller with pets in the same room).
  • Rushes never fail.
  • Skip more than 1 objective per day.
  • Change settings of training.
  • Unlimited resources (caps, water, food, etc., all of them are configurable).
  • Send as many MrHandies to the Wasteland as you want.
  • Equip as many Stimpacks and RadAways to exploring and questing dwellers as you like.
  • Send as many dwellers to the wasteland as you like.

How to install

  1. Download the mod from NexusMods.
  2. Go to your Fallout Shelter installation folder.
  3. Go to the “FalloutShelter_Data” folder.
  4. Unzip the “Mods” and “managed” folder from the downloaded mod to the FalloutShelter_Data.
  5. Overwrite the previous files.
  6. Restart your game. It should start with a title saying “Modded Fallout Shelter”.
  7. Go to the “Show Mod Settings” in the top left of the screen. Enable or disable every mod you want, as the “Rush never fails” option is the only one enabled by default.

Fallout Shelter Custom Outfits mod

This Fallout Shelter mod allows players to create their own outfits, tweak existing outfits, and tune every stat. Keep in mind that this mod is only supported on PC.

How to install

  1. Download the “ModInstaller tool” (Optional files category) from the “Fallout Shelter Modpack” mod.
  2. Download the “CustomOutfits” mod.
  3. Unzip the installer tool and the CustomOutfits mod too.
  4. Start “FSModInstaller.exe”
  5. Go to Fallout Shelter installation folder.
  6. Press “Add” and browse the “CustomOutfitsMod.dll”:
  7. Wait for the installation process to finish.
  8. Start the game and go to “Settings” then “Credits”. Check to see if they start with “Modded Fallout Shelter”, and then “Loaded mods: 1x.”
  9. Load a Vault then “Save & Exit”.
  10. Goto the installation folder of FalloutShelter then go to “FalloutShelter_Data”, then “Mods”. You should see a “CustomOutfits” folder there, which is created after loading a Vault.
  11. Place your new Outfits in the “CustomOutfits” folder.

Rock Loot Mod

The Rock Loot mod hides weapons and outfits in every rock you’ll encounter while building your Vault in Fallout Shelter. This means that players won’t only spend caps to remove them but can also get valuable rewards after doing so.

How to install

  1. Download the FSLoader mod installer tool created by modder robot9706, also responsible for Rock Loot mod.
  2. Download the “RockLoot” file from this mod.
  3. Unzip the RockLoot zip.
  4. Start the installer and follow the steps.
  5. When the installer requires a mod use the “RockLoot.dll”.

Colored Production Room Jumpsuits

Some Fallout Shelter players love to have everything tidy in their Vault, and the Colored Production Room Jumpsuits mod is just the thing to identify Dwellers and boost their SPECIAL skills.

You can assign a special color for each room, which comes in handy after sending Dwellers on a mission and easily spot which are their duties depending on which Jumpsuit they are wearing. Here are the special stats that come with each set:

  • The red jumpsuit grants +5 Strength for your power technicians.
  • The blue jumpsuit grants +5 Perception for your water technicians.
  • The green jumpsuit grants +5 Agility for your food technicians.
  • The yellow jumpsuit grants +5 Endurance for your Nuka-Cola bottler technicians.
  • The purple jumpsuit grants +5 Charisma for your radio technicians.
  • The orange jumpsuit grants +5 Luck for your casino technicians.
  • The white jumpsuit grants +5 Intelligence for your medical technicians.
  • The black jumpsuit grants +5 Intelligence for your research technicians.

How to install

To install the Colored Production Room Jumpsuits mod in Fallout Shelter, follow this steps:

  1. Install the Custom Outfits mod mentioned above.
  2. Download “Colored Production Rom Jumpsuits v1.1” from NexusMods.
  3. Extract the files of the mod to “FalloutShelter_Data\Mods\CustomOutfits”.

And that’s everything about the best mods you can use in Fallout Shelter. If you want to know more about Bethesda’s game, you can check our guides below:

Best weapons in Fallout Shelter | Fallout Shelter: How to get a Mr Handy | How to get Bottle and Cappy in Fallout Shelter | How to use Junk in Fallout Shelter | Fallout Shelter save editor explained

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