The vaults are doubtless essentially the most iconic facet of Fallout’s setting, with the lore of Vault-Tec’s mysterious social experiments expanded upon with every successive launch. Nonetheless, a tidbit we hadn’t identified concerning the vaults was just lately revealed by Tim Cain, producer and one of many largest influences on the unique Fallout (thanks, TheGamer).
In a vlog on his YouTube channel, Cain revealed that Leonard Boyarsky, artwork director on Fallout, requested what numbers he ought to enable for on the again of the vault go well with. Cain requested him to permit for a spread between 0 and 999.
“The unique design for vaults was that there was going to be one thousand,” Cain defined. “The one cause this pin was positioned within the unique sport was when Leonard was doing the vault go well with, he requested what number of digits he’d must carry on the again. As a result of we had Vault 13, however he wished to know is there going to be a Vault 106, is there going to be a Vault 1,218? And I assumed, effectively, let’s simply say there is a spherical quantity, there is a thousand.”
Cain concedes that this is not canon, and Bethesda has by no means explicitly said what number of faults there are. He provides that even when Vault-Tec had deliberate 1,000 vaults, there is a excessive likelihood they would not have completed all of them.
If we mix the vaults in Fallout, Fallout 2 and the Fallout tv sequence, we solely see between 8 and 10 vaults in all of California. This quantity definitely falls wanting the variety of vaults you’d anticipate in a high-population state in a 1,000-vault United States.
The very best numbered vault we have seen thus far within the sequence is Vault 118 from Fallout 4’s Far Harbor enlargement, and lower content material from Fallout 4 included a Vault 121.
There’s an opportunity Vault-Tec disregarded inhabitants density and constructed 800 vaults in Wyoming. Barring that, there most likely aren’t 1,000 vaults, however there may be loads of scope for a whole bunch greater than what we have seen thus far.
