So, this is the second time this has happened. I take a new advlt from my vault and cast them into the wasteland to explore to their death, without any gear at all. Within 5 minutes, they collect a LEGENDARY item! The first time was a power armor, can't remember which one, and the second was a Wasteland Surgeon outfit! I didn't even know it was possible to get legendary items in the wasteland!

Has anyone else experienced this?

Got 2 alien blasters, 2 gauss rifles, 1 guided missile launcher and 1 power armor this way.

Radio room summoned the new guy, and i immediately threw them out to explore and they got all those.

Lvl50 Explorers with MAX Stats get NOTHING even though i let them explore for >2days.

I guess its alot better to just have MANY explorers rather then few dedicated explorers.

Chances of getting legendary items seems to be higher this way.

This has happened to me several times. I currently have 4 seperate radio rooms for "throw away" explorers. Every now and then I get a quick rare right away. I once got a really good power armor, 2 Fatman launchers and Gatling laser from a bunch of about 10 level 1 new comers sent to die in the waste.


That level of absurdity has not happened since. At most now I get maybe a quick rare every 3-4 days. Maybe the patch fixed this bug.

I have a 16 pop vault and got three legendary. First lunchbox when you created a new vault gave Focused Gatlin Laser damage 21-24. Then quests that reward lunchboxes gave Accelerated Railway Rifle damage 14-18, and Guided Fat Man damage 22-26. No exploration. How many quest can you do before reaching pop 16? Ten? Anyway...


This vault is on my second mobile device which I don't use much thus vault is abandoned. I loaded this vault just now to reply this topic and thinking wow I was lucky that day.

Negative Time glitch, just look around and you'll know why this happens.

its the luck of the draw. I have sent out a bunch of unwanted dwellers who appear at my doorstep (I use the radio for happiness). Sometimes one of them randomly gets an absurdly good item within the first hour (a rocket launcher, comedian outfit etc). I wouldnt think too much of it, I've also had dwellers with 25 stimpacks explore for hours on end and it was only at the second day that they found blue items. The opposite is also true where I sent out a dweller and they didn't find anything the first day, and then the next 10 items they found had 7 blue items amongst them.

So far I still havent been able to determine what influences this other than time spent outside, since the dwellers all had max stats in different areas.

I picked up a power armor with a new guy too.... immediate Recall

I sent two dwellers out to die, came back later to see if the waste had finished the job and the one girl had found confessor cromwells rags and the guy found Miss Launcher, (no I'm not forgetting the "ile" in miss he found the named legendary launcher) both within 45 minutes of being deemed outcasts. It seems to be a total shot in the dark if it happens or what u get because I've had 6 dwellers all reach the national guard depot within an hour and every one of them walked away with only 125xp......most of my good stuff was found within hours as opposed to days.