Hi Overseer

I have reach out to support that I found a bug, but instead of acknowledging the problem and fixing it they give me the standard script that I need to come to the forum.

Maybse someone have already found this problem and report it...since support as me to discuss it here..I think so it better if I share it here for everyone benefit.

I was playing Fallout Shelter for 2 days and as mention by Bethesda it does not require us to go online or does not require any internet connection.

So I figure if its not going to need to go online it will definitely capture the time from our iPhone.

So I try to adjust the time to 1day ahead on my phone, and login back to the game and see what has change. To my surprise my dweller that I send out to gather resources has already past for 1 day.

Instead of story writing I will just put it to point form on how to do it:

(spoiler alert!! if you want to play the game without exploiting this cheat/hack/bug or whatever you want to call it... please just close off this forum)

You can change date or you can change time:

*****Before you begin make sure you have enough resources to support your dweller. I recommend not having any dweller in the living room! if not you will be overrun by baby dwellers in not time.*****

*****You can only keep moving forward the time and date**** Make sure all explorer are back to the vault before changing the time back to the current date/time*****

*****I found that killing the game from the background and changing the date or time is better, compare to changing the time by switching between the system time****

***** Recommend to start a new vault if you want to try this*****

***** Adjust just the date if you are not good in math because if you change the time till like 11:59pm you need to change date and time to 12am the next date)

So what you can do:

- Adjust time to complete production (dependent on the time on how long the production take) - Don't bother doing it its just a few minutes so not much impact.(However manufacturing Stim pack will be useful because u will need stim pack/radaway to send your dweller out to explore)

- Adjust time to complete upgrading your dweller. - yup this one is very useful. If you want to make all your dweller perfect 10 for all stats you can do this too)

- Adjust date for exploration, so you send a dweller out and you don't want to wait 2 to 3 days...adjust the time and its done. (you need stimpack to explore and best to have enough before you do this.)

- Adjust the date even further if you want your explorer to come back. Don't ever adjust the time backwards as it will increase the days. (so just keep moving the date/ time to future)

- Adjust date/ time so that Radio can call in extra Dwellers, frankly If you really want more dwellers you can do this too.

- Adjust date to get 1 launch box after 7 days. - don't really work very well. (don't know how the time impact it but it sometimes work and sometimes don't when I change the date.)

There definitely going to screw your whole productions hours if you do this or keep moving forward in time and when you want to change it back to the current date all your production hours will reflect around few hundreds hours..

Below is how you reset it.

- For Productions Room - Do a Rush and if successful the timer will reset

- For Radio Room - Unassigned everyone out of the room and shut the whole game and end it from background and then re-launch the game and assign back the dwellers to the Radio room

Don't judge me I am just merely sharing what I know...I am a fan of fallout and I hope Bethesda will really try to fix this!

Have a nice day!

You did the best, if more ppl know and abuse it they will have to do something about it.


Edit: Also, I don't recommand doing this. I few years ago I was playing a mobile game what I really enjoyed for a few months, I got tempted and used a hack one day. It ruined all the fun, didn't even want to open the game again, so if you want to enjoy this cool little game, don't do it.

thx namerdekel! I will NOT recommend this too...unless you want to see what other flaw in the game especially when you spend so much of your time staring at your phone...

some enhancement to the game like will probably suggest since i am now max out most of the things:

• selling equipment like some weapons/suits most of the weapons/suits is value at 10C...a few is at 100C(only a few) but...no point sending out more dweller because the loot is not work the time...


• Max stimpack and radaway a dweller can carry is like 25each...and really not enough to last 3 days!


• Not to mention the dwellers don't really get better loot even i send out a dweller for 2 to 3 days....disappointing!!

will probably start a new vault once they fix the time, readjust the loot price and give us better loot.

Its actually a very addictive game...but it do require a lot of your time tho..!

I did this only a few time to gather weapons and armor for my vault dwellers. It's good and all but it makes the game less fun. However, when doing this, my production times and stuff messed up so it says that it's take 23 hours to produce resources. It happened when I went back to my settings to fix the time to the current time. Perhaps you or anyone knows how I could solve this without deleting my vault?

Yeah, I've used this a lot since I don't see the point in waiting for things to happen, it's neither fun nor challenging. I don't really see it as a cheat since basically instead of turning off my ipad and leaving it on the table for a few hours I just move the time forward, and there's no pvp or anything like that either. I don't use the ipad for anything important anyway so I don't really mind that the date and time is off.

If they implemented some fun alternative to waiting, like an actual game you could play to speed things up, I'd do that instead.

Hi Eulogy

I have got the fix listed on my original post.

- Rush the production for most of the production rooms.

- for Radio room move all dwellers out of the room to living room or somewhere else. shut the game down even from background and when you get back to the game assigning back a dweller to the room should reset the time too.

Do I have to move dwellers out of other skill rooms, like the game room?

should be the same way Eulogy move all dwellers out shut down the same reassign them in the skill room...never try that but it should work...give it a try and see... frankly I max out everyone already and I cannot try this.

I am with you 100%. I suspect that my game got messed up (timer issues) because of automatic time zone switching.

Or maybe some other reason if they use universal time.

It glitched when I switched my timezone to automatic.