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Caps are a resource in Fallout Shelter.
Overview[]
The basic currency of the wasteland is used as a resource to build and purchase improvements to the vault and its dwellers.
Earning caps[]
Caps can be acquired from a multitude of sources. Here they are, ordered from worst to best:
- Low income
- Leveling up your dwellers: Each level gained by your dwellers will give you a few caps. The amount is determined by the new level: A level 10 dweller will give you 10 caps.
- Selling gear: You can sell unwanted pieces of equipment recovered from the wasteland. Unless rare or legendary, however, don't count on being paid a lot of cash
- Rushing: Rushing a room will provide you with cap rewards. The reward is tied to the accident risk, at a 1-1 ratio (the reward increases by 1 cap per 1% of accident risk).
- High income
- Exploring: Sending out your Vault dwellers into the wasteland will result in them bringing back outfits, weapons, and, of course, caps. Particularly good explorers will bring back thousands of caps, potentially.
- Completing objectives: Completing objectives earns some of the highest cap rewards, from as little as 25 to as much as 200 and more.
- Lunchboxes: Lunchboxes can contain random cards that give you 100, 200, or 500 caps.
- Discovering the Mysterious Stranger within your vault will reward you with a large amount of caps.
- Varied income
- Production: Having Dwellers with high luck in a room and completing a food, water, energy, stimpaks, or RadAway production cycle may on occasion reward bonus caps along with the resources from the room. This can be anywhere from a few dozen to several hundred caps.
- Destroying already built rooms will return the player anywhere between a few tens and several thousand caps.
- Bottle and Cappy
Spending caps[]
- Construction and demolition
- Building: New rooms within the Vault and clear obstacles when expanding deeper into the mountain.
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- Dweller customization
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- Item crafting
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