I'm new to Fallout Shelter, and I'm not doing well. If I start over, I may make the same mistakes, so I'd rather learn how to pull myself out of my hole (no pun intended.)
I've got 19 Dwellers, 3 rooms worth of power generators, 3 of diners, and 2 of water treatment rooms, plus 8 others. However, I'm very low on food and water and I can't seem to make any progress. I'm building stimpacks and those rad cures as fast as I can, but everyone is sad-looking and overall happiness is 10%.
Somehow I've managed to accumulate 2000 caps, and I know I should increase my production of food, water, stimpacks, rad cures, and babies.
Where should I focus my efforts first?
EDIT: I started over with a new Vault. Fewer people, better-located rooms. I'm still having trouble keeping Water and Food higher than 0, and I don't want to spend too much on Med or Sci Labs while I do.
EDIT: Once I upgraded my Water and Power to the maximum, I didn't have trouble keeping them going, and was able to focus on Food. Thanks!
Best Answer
Note: I think this question may be too broad, as there is a lot of theorycrafting that I've seen go into sustaining a fort; as such this answer will be used only as a means to help the OP dig out of a hole
Do not start making babies too early in the game.
Once a baby is born, they start to consume resources. If you have too many babies, then they're all sucking up resources, and not able to actually contribute to resource generation.
My vault consists of
I'm currently sitting at about 24,000 bottlecaps, and have been playing consistently for about a week.
It seems like we're pretty similar in terms of setup, so I'll try to put as many things as possible that I've done to get here.