Vault Dweller's Survival Guide



The Vault Dweller's Survival Guide is the game manual for Fallout.

Background
Styled as a Vault-Tec publication issued to inhabitants of the company's flagship line of Vault-model fallout shelters that would be given to intended dwellers. After January 2077, the publication was publicly sold for approximately $299.95.

Table of contents
The cover reads "ISSUED BY VAULT-TEC DOCUMENTATION DEPARTMENT, JANUARY, 2077" with the notice "This document contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the New Amended Espionage Act, 50 U.S.C., 31 and 32. Its transmission or the revelation of its contents in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by the law."

Several sections have been crossed off and additional comments added by the "overseer," stylized by way of a taped piece of paper obscuring the original text of the guide. Original comments will be stricken and the overseer's comments italicized below.

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General
p. 1-1

* Document not available at this time, will be available the 3rd quarter of 2078.

Important Vault statistics
pp. 1-1 to 1-2

Nuclear blast effects
p. 1-2

pp. 1-3 to 1-4
 * Atmospheric effects of blasts

pp. 1-4 to 1-5
 * Overview of immediate effects

pp. 1-5 to 1-7
 * Overview of delayed effects

SimTek operations
pp. 2-1 to 2-6

Section III: Personnel
p. 3-1 to 3-2

Standard Personnel Records






Section IV: Instrumentation
pp. 4-1 to 4-38

RobCo Pip-Boy 2000

 * Things to do!

Section V: Conflict Resolution
pp. 5-1 to 5-33

Appendices
pp. A-1 to A-10

Additional Publications

 * Flotation Homes and Seaweed


 * Coping With Mr. Virus!


 * Vault Dweller's Survival Guide (abridged version)


 * How to Eat Rat


 * How to Escape Radiation

Survival Recipes

 * Mushroom Clouds


 * Desert Salad

Behind the scenes
The Vault Dweller's Survival Guide is also mentioned as having the price being reduced to $100 for a limited time on October 22nd, 2077, and including a Coping With Mr. Virus! pamphlet and the How to Eat Rat section (revised September edition) in Boston Bugle Volume 12, a promotional item that came with the Pip-Boy 2000 Mk VI FM radio module.