the symbol on some of the craftable outfits in fallout shelter

If you want to craft more than one item at a time, you’ll need more workshops. I had hoped assigning multiple dwellers would allow parallel crafting but it only speeds up the production of a single item at a time. Once crafting is complete, the item will be available to dole out to a dweller. You will see the entire population of craftable items, which ones you have unlocked, which you have the materials for, how much an item costs to craft, and how long it will take.

Alien Blaster, please!Īfter assigning dwellers, you tap the Craft icon and the crafting menu pops up. Each one does have three levels of upgrade–the base room can craft common items, then rare, then legendary. The nice thing about these rooms compared to others is that they are always three spaces wide and don’t require combining to build them up. The higher agility and more dwellers you assign to the room (up to six each), the faster your build time.

Both rooms benefit from dwellers with high agility. So you have junk, you have recipes, how do you actually make the things? There are two new room types specifically for crafting–a Weapon Workshop and an Outfit Workshop. As a nice bonus and tie-in, a lot of the new craftable items are styled after ones found in Fallout 4 (like pipe weapons and Brotherhood of Steel clothing). And the longer your dwellers explore, the better junk and recipes they will find. While all common items are unlocked from the beginning, rare and legendary items will need to be unlocked through exploration.

In addition to junk, you’ll find recipes for new weapons and outfits in the wasteland as well. You get a couple of pieces of junk right off the bat with the update, but you can also find junk in your lunch boxes and recover junk out in the wasteland. Maybe it will even satisfy enough of my crafting addiction that I can finally make decent progress in Fallout 4. Bringing crafting to Fallout Shelter was an obvious choice.

So the biggest addition in this update is crafting! I don’t know about everyone else but I find that I spend more time than I should scrapping junk, tweaking weapons and armor, and crafting stuff in Fallout 4. Fallout Shelter just got a major update that includes new room types, more pets, crafting, and more!

The symbol on some of the craftable outfits in fallout shelter