All parents were secretly separated from the children, later executed by the vault security staff. Vault 75Įxcluding the official vault staff, all residents were under the age of 18. By 2281, there were still people living inside of the vault.Īs part of its experiment, Vault 69 was populated by 1 man and 999 women. Vault 34, as part of it's experiment, was designed with an overstocked armory and a great number of recreational facilities, sacrificing normal living space. Instead of a human Overseer, Vault 29 was controlled by a ZAX supercomputer. However, an experiment on pest control lead to a genetically-manufactures spore, either killing the inhabitants or hideously transforming them.ĭesigned to study experiments on children, none of the original inhabitants of the vault were above the age of 15 years old. Successes lead to creations of plants able to grow under artificial light. The vault was designed to develop advanced agricultural technologies. When it's vault door opened, the residents successfully integrated into the nearby outside societies. Vault 21 is one of the few non-control vaults that didn't end in failure. All conflicts withing the vault have to be resolved by gambling. The purpose of this vault is to study gambling, having only compulsive gamblers selected as residents. The groups lived in separate sections of the vault and the inhabitants may have been chosen due to pre-existing paranoia. The vault was segregated into two groups, Red and Blue. The vault was raided in 2154 by the Master's Army, with its inhabitants taken prisoner and turned into super mutants. The original purpose of the vault's experiment is unknown. Intended to stay closed for 50 years and included people of radically different ideologies.Īppears in Fallout and Fallout 2. However, a broken water chip forced the Overseer to send out the Vault Dweller into the Wasteland to retrieve a new chip.Īppears in Fallout and Fallout 2. As a resut, a large population of ghouls escaped into the Wasteland.ĭesigned as a study of prologned isolation, Vault 13 was intended to stay closed for 200 years. To study the effects of radiation on a controlled population, the vault door to Vault 12 was designed to not close properly. More specifically, the ability to sacrifice oneself for others, and the ability to place ideals above one's own life. A water pipe failure eventually lead to the vault being opened and later taken over by the Fiends.Ī social experiment testing human nature. One of the few control vaults built by Vault-Tec that was not designed for human experimentation. The vault became the main base for The Master and his Unity project.ĭesigned to be the nucleus of the Vault network, Vault 0 houses the geniuses of the pre-war United States who are kept in cryogenic stasis. It's success lead to the beginning of Vault-Tec's Project Safehouse. Notable Vaults Los Angeles VaultĬreated before the official start of the vault project, the Los Angeles Vault was Vault-Tec's demonstration to prove the functionality of the vaults.

The ulterior purpose of many of the vaults was to conduct human experiments as contracted in secret by the Enclave. The vaults were designed by Vault-Tec Corporation and constructed in collaboration with RobCo Industries. Vaults are self-sustaining subterranean complexes meant to house up to 1,000 people in the event of a nuclear holocaust or global pandemic.

Purpose of vault 101