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Better Settler achievement in Fallout Shelter

Better Settler

Level up a dweller from Level 1 to 10

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How to unlock the Better Settler achievement

  • LLAMAP0CALYPSELLAMAP0CALYPSE
    08 Feb 2017 08 Feb 2017 04 May 2017
    Dwellers get experience for doing jobs, stopping emergencies and various other things while they are out in the wasteland. Dwellers in the vault need to be manually "tapped" to level up once they have enough experience for the next level. Dwellers out in the wasteland will level up on their own when ready. The easiest way is to send a level 1 dweller out to the wasteland and let time do the work for you. The other option is to just tap the dwellers as needed... eitherway this is easy to unlock with a little time.

    Achievement may be glitched, some reports of criteria being met but no achievement pop

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    OneFastJedi88Here we are December 2018, still won't pop for me. I made a new vault and got a few to 10, nothing. If the solution is to completely delete your existing vaults and try from new, I'll go on Win10 and manually back up my save, wipe what's "saved" and start new that way, get the achievement then restore my ~150 dweller vault. I guess it'd be too hard for them to just patch it.
    Posted by OneFastJedi88 on 12 Dec 18 at 12:48
    Strykerz911I can confirmed achievement is glitched (July 2019). Not sure if it's because my first dweller became level 10 while out in the wasteland. Will try what others have suggested to delete save files and report back with results.
    Posted by Strykerz911 on 05 Jul 19 at 06:19
    Strykerz911Just got the achievement. Took some playing around, although I'm not sure how much of what I did was necessary (FYI I am on Windows 10). The first thing I did was sign out of Xbox Live (via Xbox app) while Fallout Shelter was open. When the prompt was asked to sign in, I created a new windows account (live gamertag) using another email address and used that. I then signed out and returned to my regular account (again, while Fallout Shelter was open).

    Looking at my vaults, I had 2 files, 1 I recently starting playing (my main file), and 1 from a long time ago when the game first came out. I deleted the old file. In my more recent file, I leveled up a dweller who just happened to be at level 9 while in the lab that creates stimpaks.

    That is how I popped the achievement. Hopefully this helps.
    Posted by Strykerz911 on 05 Jul 19 at 07:31
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  • UtG MistUtG Mist
    08 Feb 2017 09 Feb 2017 09 Feb 2017
    This achievement is obtained through natural progression

    You can level up your dwellers in multitude of ways; working in the assorted resource rooms, rushing said rooms, detering the various hazards (radroaches, molerats, rad scorpions, fires, raiders, deathclaws), sending them to the wasteland, completing quests etc. This does not require you to level up any of the specific S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats through training rooms, just the overall level of your vault dwellers

    If you need more explanation:
  • Lycan NoxLycan Nox
    07 Feb 2017 08 Feb 2017
    The first thing you'll want to do is get enough dwellers so you can build a science lab which allows you to produce stimpacks. Build 3 of these next to each up then upgrade them to full. Then find a dweller with high Intelligence and ideally high Luck as well, you can also argument this by put them in formal ware and training them in a game room to boost luck or put them in a lab coat and train them in the class room to boost intelligence.

    I recommend having at least two dwellers with these stats in the lab, then all you do is simple rush the room, with higher luck you can risk a higher failure percentage, but I wouldn't risk going over 50% unless you've got luck maxed at in which case you can push to around 60 to 65%.

    The finally thing I would suggest and is up to you as its kind of cheating. But you can also change the time on your xbox/PC and speed the whole thing up. I suggest just jumping 20 minutes at a time while leaving the game open (which makes it a lot easier to do on PC). Then rush the room until it can't be rushed anymore and then jump another 20 minutes. Just bare in mind if you do jump your time while a room is panicking it wont reset your rush cool down correctly and you'll miss out on xp.

    The same time skipping can be used to train the skills faster or get to quests faster so you don't need to you Quantum cola.
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