Do any of the parents SPECIAL stats affect at all the scores of the offspring? For example if I have a couple who both have high strength, would the child also have high strength, or is it just totally random?

Doesn't look like it.

Inheritance does not appear to be Lamarckian.

It appears that children have the same highest stat as one of their parents with 50% chance. For example if you breed Charisma 8 man + Strength 6 woman (all other stats are below those numbers) you can get a child with 3 in Strength or Charisma. Although so far i get only kids with standard number of skill points - 5x lvl 2 and 2x lvl 1 (the distribution between stats varies but all my kids come with 12 skill points). I am also allowing only Epic and Rare characters to have six, so that is quite a dissapointment to have common kids:( Did anyone get a Rare child so far and who did you "combine"?

My plan is to have 2 characters with all skills leveled to 10 and see what happens then. Did anyone do that already?

It doesn't seem like the overall amount of parents stats effects the amount of offspring stats, just which particular stats are highest.

I received Three Dog in an early lunchbox on one vault, so naturally impregnated every female dweller with him.

My starter HighA and HighP dwellers were both female, offspring with normal dwellers leaned towards C and A, The HighA offspring was HighA, The HighP offspring was still HighC but more balanced than others with 2P. But offspring of a Special don't seem to give more points, and offspring of trained up characters don't seem to either, so about all it seems we can do is guess at what the dominant stat of a couple will be.

My Three Dog experiment also made me realize that the game not only won't let you breed a child with their parent, but it seems like half-siblings are off limits too. I am now wondering at what level of lineage it will let you rebreed across branches. If I breed Three Dogs offspring with someone unrelated, will I be able to breed Three Dogs grandkids back with Three Dog? Or grandkids who have different parents and a different grandmother with each other?

It would also be nice to see the lineages, to avoid putting two together only to have them not get jiggy because of blood relations.

Or can we already and I haven't yet found out how? I completely missed how to recall wasteland foragers for a while when I first started...

I was surprised to see the parent child breeding nixed. Honestly I'm glad it was, I just didn't expect it. My biggest problem now is I have around 30 dwellers and I bred them like crazy early on since people just wandering in is so rare. Well now just about everyone is related. I'm having to find my original breeding pairs to make more kids.

I did have one thing happen that I thought was interesting. I bred a woman with a Mohawk and her daughter had a Mohawk also. Don't know if that was just lucky or if hairstyle is one of the features that carries down.

I think I just figured out a way to tell if two people you're trying to pair off to breed will actually do so or not: do they face each other when you plunk them into the quarters room? If so, then schawing! If not then... try again.

when you zoom in, you can also see them talk to each other. if they are compatible they will say stuff like "i want to kiss you now" or cheesy one liners.

but if they are related they will say something like "its nice to just kick back at home with your family"


it can't be possible that "everyone is related" in your vault. the game gives you like 12-16 dwellers to start off and if you only used three dog, then you must have at least a few other males in there. just bite the bullet and let someone else have some action.

although, i just pulled butch of the tunnel snakes from a lunchbox and he came with 9 charisma and 7 in like every stat except luck, and i'm tempted to use him as my alpha male. I pulled scribe rothchild on day 1, and used him to sire 10 children, but it was taking so long i used some of the other men just to make it go faster...and i suppose its good to have genetic diversity.

Their conversation actually seems to be the only 100% accurate way to tell. I noticed that sometimes when they first go in they will face away, then turn towards each other after a minute, but thought that was still fairly accurate if you checked after a few minutes. However just had a 2 room living space with 2 couples in it, and when it zoomed in as the first couple conceived, I noticed the other couple, who was facing each other, were repeating the same "Nothing better than spending time with my family" line.

Actually had a heck of a time getting that particular female to breed, I kept switching out males with dominant P, and somehow they were all too closely related to her despite having different last names. Eventually had to breed a P dominant male with a low skilled I dominant female and hope the offspring gets his daddy's genes.