Obviously, the garden/water purification are a big waste...should I start, one by one, replacing my regular food/water units with nuca cola?

Only if you need more space. These things can get really expensive fast .

nuka cola rooms produce both food and water at the same rate as the tier 2 food and water rooms. it's like a tier 2 food and a tier 2 water combined into 1 room. much more efficient.

an x3 nuka room produces 33/41/50 and an x2 room produces 22/27/33. (level 1/2/3)

however, it is extrememley expensive to build them. you get an x3 and an x2 room and by that time it costs 8000 per square. with 2x3 rooms and 2x2 rooms, it was costing me 12000+ per square.

i stopped at 3x3 and 3x2 rooms.

if you have a way to generate money fast, it might be worth investing, but it would take forever to save up the caps to replace all your food and water rooms.

plus it costs 15k to upgrade to lvl 2 and 45k to go to lvl 3.


also, they need endurance to run the, and most likely you will have spent most of your time training agility and perception.


i personally like the nuka cola rooms but they are cost prohibitive.


at 180 dwellers i have 32 people on food 32 on water and 15 in the nuka rooms.

Cool, I'll probably not bother then. I've not really been heavily training dwellers, just a little. At 120, I'm at 98% happiness and full resources. I'll keep my slow southern expansion plan then.


Thanks for the info!

I suggest to build 1 room with 0 upgrades. Put best 2 dwellers with good guns and E+ equipment. You will ask why?

Simple: it's very good to make quests: extinguish fire, or then you get quests about incidents, in this room fire will be extinguish in 2-4s, radraoches - always only 1 comes, if you will give guns you will kill them in 2-4s. AND your dwellers wont lose HP almost . of course my dwellers have 10+ Endurance.

I'm very happy with this room. I got new quest: extinguish fire 30 times, so i just "Rush" room, after 5s again "Rush" and etc.. it's a bit annoying because you need fire so ~90 rushes and quest finished. But it's much faster and safer and don't need to waste much more time or "skip one quest".