Vault Tec Presents: A comprehensive list of all vaults in the Fallout series.

Los Angeles Vault.

The official Vault Tec demonstration vault. Being fully functional, it housed several people during the great war. Years later when it finally opened, the inhabitants emerged into the Boneyard and scattered; thus forming the Adytum and The Regulators. It later became The Master's base of operations. (Fallout).

Unfinished Vault.

The unfinished vault has the exact same layout as Vault 13, and is also named Fake Vault 13 in-game. Not much to say about it, really - it's a cave with a sign in it. (Fallout 2).

Vault 0.

Vault 0 is a vault found in Fallout: Tactics, and the details about it might contradict official canon. Long story short; Vault 0 was a place for the greatest geniuses to be kept in cryogenic stasis - their brains were then extracted and hooked up to The Calculator, a massive super-computer designed to help humanity. Because of budgetary issues The Calculator was missing back-up systems. This corrupted the computer which then released hostile robots into the wasteland. (Fallout Tactics)

Vault 3.

Vault 3 was designed to stay closed for 20 years, but the inhabitants opted to keep it closed even longer. Eventually an issue with the water filtration system forced the inhabitants to venture outside. The inhabitants of the vault started to trade with outsiders, and everything was running smoothly - until they attracted the attention of the Fiends. They were slaughtered due to their lack of security measures - they had been the model of a functional society, the overseer wasn't a megalomaniac and they maintained order and democracy. (Fallout New Vegas)

Vault 8 / Vault City.

After receiving the all-clear signal, the inhabitants of Vault 8 ventured out and started a settlement which would later become Vault city. Quite possibly one of the best settlements in the wastes, fully equipped with a medical center and information hub. (Fallout 2)

Vault 11.

Vault 11 was a social experiment centering around sacrifice. Each year the inhabitants were instructed to sacrifice one of their own so that the others may live. Ironically, if the inhabitants refused, an automated message would commend them on their morality and tell them the vault is unlocked, and that they could come and go as they pleased. An audiolog can be found from the final survivors of the vault, upon learning the cosmically ironic premise. (Fallout New Vegas)

Vault 12.

Vault 12 wasn't as much a social experiment as it was a biological experiment; the door was designed not to close properly, letting the radiation flood the fault. This resulted in the inhabitants becoming nigh-immortal ghouls, and thus Necropolis was founded. (Fallout)

Vault 13.

Vault 13 was a control vault, wherein The Vault Dweller was born and raised. Due to a water issue, The Vault Dweller was forced to venture into the wasteland and retrieve a new water-chip. Upon returning, The Vault Dweller was exiled by the overseer who thought the adventurers return would persuade others to leave - thus ruining the point of the control group. The overseer was then executed. (Fallout, fallout 2)

Vault 15.

Vault 15 was a social experiment in which the inhabitants were individuals with wildly different ideologies and perspectives. The result was a social divide, in which 4 groups were formed; The Jackals, The Vipers, the Khans and the founders of Shady Sands. (Fallout, Fallout 2)

Vault 17.

The actual purpose of vault 17 remains a mystery, it's speculated that it was part of the control groups. The inhabitants of Vault 17 were forcibly taken and turned into supermutants by The Master's army. Lily Bowen is a confirmed inhabitant of Vault 17. (Fallout New Vegas - mention only)

Vault 19.

The inhabitants of this vault were separated into two groups; red and blue. After an unexpected sulfur-leak contaminates the air-supply, the vault was abandoned and overrun by fire geckos. (Fallout New Vegas)

Vault 21.

This vault only admitted individuals who were admitted gamblers, and these inhabitants were to settle their disputes and disagreements through games of skill and chance. This tradition was passed on from parent to child, until Robert House ordered for the inhabitants to surrender their vault and assimilate into the Strip. In a very risky bet, the inhabitants of the vault lost the lower levels of the vault to House, while the top levels became a hotel for people traveling through New Vegas. (Fallout New Vegas)

Vault 22.

A vault designed to study and experiment using fringe agricultural science, eventually resulting in the deadly spore creatures found in Big MT. and the vault itself. (Fallout New Vegas)

Vault 29.

No one admitted in this vault was above the age of 15. Parents of the inhabitants were strategically moved to different vaults. Harold the Tree is said to be an original inhabitant of Vault 29. (Fallout Bible, Van Buren)

Vault 34.

The armory of Vault 34 was grossly overstocked, and thus The Boomers emerged from the vault - headed for the Nellis Air force Base. Kaboom. (Fallout Bible, Fallout New Vegas)

Vault 43.

20 men.
12 women.
1 panther.
(Penny Arcade)

Vault 69.

This vault was designed to house a maximum of 1000 people. 999 women and 1 man. (Fallout Bible, Van Buren, Penny Arcade)

Vault 75.

As part of this experiment, every student in Malden Middle School and their families were admitted into the vault - after which the children were escorted into the atrium as the adults were executed. To refine and study human genetics, the inhabitants were subject to harsh training bordering on torture. They were told about Uptopland, the name they used for the wastes, were they would one day be strong enough to venture out and help people. By the time they turned 18, if the inhabitants were strong and intelligent enough, they would be harvested and killed - or admitted into the science staff. (Fallout 4)

Vault 76.

Vault 76, like many of the more uninteresting vaults, was a control group meant to recolonize the surface after nuclear war. (Fallout 3, Fallout 4)

Vault 77.

A social experiment in which one single man was admitted into a vault, only accompanied by sock-puppets. (Penny Arcade)

Vault 81.

This vault was designed to test diseases on the unknowing inhabitants - the living quarters were divided into one for the science staff and one for the inhabitants. The original overseer secretly tampered with the equipment designed to administer the diseases through the ventilation, saving the population of the vault. (Fallout 4)

Vault 87.

A testing and research facility for the Forced Evolutionary Virus. The test subjects were locked into airtight chambers and exposed to the FEV, where the scientists would observe the changes the test subjects would go through. After their infection, the subjects underwent physical and mental changes over a period of about two weeks. (Fallout 3)

Vault 88.

This vault was designed to test experimental Vault Tec technology before installing it in other vaults - it was never fully constructed until The Sole Survivor aided in expanding and modifying the vault to his/her liking. (Fallout 4)

Vault 92.

Vault 92 was inhabited largely by renowned musicians. The point of the experiment was to subject the inhabitants to white noise in order to implant violent psycho-hypnotic suggestions in their heads. (Fallout 3)

Vault 95.

The inhabitants of this vault was composed solely of drug addicts. The vault was focused on helping these addicts kick their habits, fully equipped with a seemingly painful detox machine. The staff was instructed to wait until progress was showing before unveiling a large stash of quality drugs. (Fallout 3 cut content, Fallout 4)

Vault 101.

The home of The Lone Wanderer. The point of this vault was to monitor the effects of a dictatorial overseer - unlike most of the vaults in the post-nuclear world, this one was never meant to be opened. (Fallout 3)

Vault 106.

All the inhabitants were admitted and accounted for, and so it was time to start the experiment; after 10 days psychoactive drugs were pumped through the air systems. By 2277 it is a broken mess filled with destroyed interior and insane inhabitants. (Fallout 3)

Vault 108.

This vault houses several inhabitants - all of whom are clones of one man; Gary. (Fallout 3)

Vault 111.

This vault was meant to be a research facility for cryogenic science. The inhabitants were frozen upon entering, and were unable to escape when the staff committed mutiny against the scientists. (Fallout 4)

Vault 112.

All the inhabitants were put in suspended animation much like the inhabitants of Vault 111 - however the dwellers in Vault 112 were subjected to virtual reality in which a sadistic doctor controlled every aspect of their lives. (Fallout 3)

Vault 114.

The inhabitants of Vault 114 were primarily upper-class citizens and affluent individuals - however the luxury aspect of the vault was grossly exaggerated as inhabitants were forced to use communal showers and share single-room apartments. A man only known as Soup Can Harry, who was presumably just a homeless man Vault Tec grabbed off the street, was given the position of grand overseer. (Fallout 4)

Vault 118.

Unlike most of the other vaults, the experiment of Vault 118 was never initialized as the housing for the less affluent inhabitants was abandoned before the great war. A former General Atomics scientists suggested they move the inhabitants brains into robobrains, which drove the overseer to suicide. (Fallout 4)

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