Just opened 10 in a row. Got two rare dwellers, three-dog's outfit, and a rusty gauss rifle. Nothing else of any value at all. 10mm pistol, a BB gun, 500 caps, etc. Not exactly the help against deathclaws I was hoping for.

Buying lunchboxes is a waste of money! If they guarented a legendary item/dweller per each lunchbox rateher than a rare item/dweller then purchasing lunchboxes would at least be worthwhile especially since players cannot get lenendary items in the wasteland (LIKE WE USED TO BE ABLE TO!)

At first, the lunchboxes are full of 500 caps and very little legendery. But players can get the legendery from wasteland (except legendery dweller).

In October, legenderies are removed from wasteland, to force play to buy the lunchboxes. However, the lunchboxes are still filled with craps.

So, it depends on what you want from the game. To build all rooms or rush to 200 dwellers, no need to buy any.

To collect all the cards, that will cost a lot. Especially with pets added.

To play the challenge mood, extra lunchboxes are helpful.

I don't know what I want from the game. Not trying to get to 200 dwellers, or collect everything, or anything like that. Just like checking on my vault once or twice a day. Slowly watching it get stronger. There's something stupidly compelling about that, so I keep playing.

Opening lunchboxes just seems pointless though. I didn't actually buy any, just had 10 saved up, because I'd stopped bothering to open them.. but thought, ok, 10 at once, bound to get something worthwhile now.. but no.

Oh, and ironic that the one legendary item was 3-dogs outfit. I don't use a radio station. Not worth the extra deathclaws - especially since it seems damn near impossible to get good weapons to fight them with.

To be fair, Fallout Shelter is Beth's first mobile game and their first free-to-play game. They clearly don't understand how this works yet.

Definitely do not buy anything, they are not worth it. Mr. Handy only collects 5k caps in wasteland, then returns automatically. Mr. Handy is extremely slow to collect on rooms ( you end up collecting them anyway), and cannot collect levels. Mr. Handy dies fairly quickly and costs 2k caps to repair. Lunchboxes have an extremely low rate of producing quality items; you would waste tons of money trying to get even a few good things. Pets are cool, but you can get them in free lunchboxes by completing quests. They are not worth buying.

Pets are worth buying in survival mode because if the dweller dies in the wasteland the pet returns with the kit and money collected.

Learnt from Wikipedia that they earn 5.1 million in the first 2 week in July. Do not know how much more afterward. They just got greedy and try to get more form players.

Regarding Mr Handys and pets:


I have 12 Mr Handys and 17 pets, all from completing objectives and find the pets are way more useful in the game.


If, and that is a big IF, Bethesda would allow the collection of legendary items from the wasteland (NGD) like we USED TO BE ABLE TO or via another methoid using using CAPS, I would actually purchase Pet Carriers from Bethesda.


I honestly do not see Bethesda improving lunchboxes and strongly recommend NOT purchasing them since they are a waste of money!

I usually buy some inapp to appreciate the effort of the developer, but not for this game.

I felt being cheated when they removed the legendaries from the wasteland.

Oh yes, they've made lots of money, but they've also alienated a lot of their fans with their greed. Which means (to me at least) that they don't know how this is supposed to work. Free-to-play is supposed to be about keeping customers long-term and getting lots of little purchases out of them, not pumping them for cash once and driving them away.

I agree. So it need new contents from time to time, and player keep buying while playing. At least the boosters purchased works and the money will keep coming.

Lunchboxes have become a disappointment nearly every time. I have not seen anything but 500 caps as a "rare" reward nearly every time.

Why buy something useless?

Even a rare item is not worth it. There are about 100 legendaries, not including dwellers. Boxes with guarantee legendaries will be more fair to the players.

I just made it more fun by giving myself the rule that 1 lunchbox = 5000 caps. So I remove caps with the save editor and give myself lunchboxes accordingly. Of course, many will still contain 500 caps, but at least this way caps are not useless in endgame and allow me to keep farming for all the cards.

What is the save editor? Does it work with iOS or only android?

I would be happy even with 50,000 = 1 box.

Want to know how to do that.

Heh, well I now scaled it up to 10.000 = 1 box, because I had 44 lunchboxes because of the rule and it was a bit much. Most of them were 500 caps, but still I got like 6 blue dwellers and that meant I went over my 50 dweller limit. I want to train them all to level 50 with max stats. Also got a decent amount of outfits and a missile launcher. All the regular outfits are already too weak.

Funny thing is I used to have a vault with 130 people but it got corrupted beyond repair. So I started a new vault and gave myself all the stuff I remembered I had. Now I have this small, compact but very overpowered vault. So my objective is to just get all the items.

I think the editor works with both ios and android, I am on android. It's useful for a lot of things, like correcting bugs or making backups, or returning purchased items if your vault got corrupted. I still think you should buy pet carriers or mr handies and support bethesda (I do buy pet carriers).

An editor? Tempting, but it would only be fun for about a day, and then I'd never want to play again. It would ruin it for me. I just wish the devs would add a way to create our own dwellers once in a while. Maybe the science lab could double as a genetics lab, since radaways go from something you only need once a while, to something you never need at all. Then the editor wouldn't be so tempting.

Adding lunchboxes sure, but that's just pure cheating. Might as well just quit if you're going to do that.

I got 50 (I know... there was a sale though, so it was 50% or something like that) luck wasn't on my side I don't have anything truly amazing or over the top to show for it, just my luck I guess lol, pity to hear you could get legendary items in the wasteland at one stage, would have made less of a PTKDE Game (Pay-to-Kill-Deathclaws-Effectively). I'm saying that, they aren't a problem anymore because I keep finding Rocket Launchers 20-22 Damage in the Wasteland haha.

Well, I finally completed by challenge to survive 20 deathclaw attacks without a casualty, to get my lunchbox. Eagerly I opened it to see what goodies I'd get...


First out was 500 caps, OK I thought, it's usually not bad if you get that first. ..


Second was a stimpack...


Next an enhanced bb gun (wow!)


Lastly, another 500 caps!


Wow, thanks Bethesda, something that takes me about 2 weeks to complete and I get a totally useless reward. Caps are useless when you have 999,999 of them...


I've said it before, I'll say it again, rewards like this should carry all rare items or at least a guaranteed legendary that you haven't already got.

You must not have upgraded your game and still collect from the NGD. I wish I never upgraded until I collected all Legendary items, however, upgrading has saved me from losing acces to my vaults since I backup often via icloud to another device. The most I have lost was 24 hours.

Icloud save is completely overrated. It happened to me that my icloud save got overwritten by a corrupt local save.


Bye bye halloween, thanksgiving and christmas outfots. Bye bye legendary stuff. Byebye over three months worth of playing.


Hello no help from Bethesda and hello no help from Apple as they simply blame each other and leave me in Limbo.

That is why I backup to another device via iCloud which allows me to have three different versions saved at any one time.

Poor lunchboxes is one of the reasons to quit the game. No matter you pay or not, you don't get what you want.