FALLOUT SHELTER ACTIVITY

This activity is based on the game Fallout Shelter, available for Android and iOS devices. In the game you
control a vault that protects people after a nuclear apocalypse. You must ensure that your vault dwellers survive
and thrive in their new home.

Your WATER and POWER resources are what keeps your vault going.
-WATER: Clean water is hard to come by in the Wasteland. Run low on WATER and your Dwellers
will take Radiation damage. WATER is created in the Water Treatment room.

-POWER: Your vault cant run without POWER. Run low on POWER and your rooms will begin
shutting down. POWER is created in the Power Generator room.

Every Dweller has stats called SPECIAL

S (trength), P (erception), E (ndurance), C (harisma), I (ntelligence), A (gility), L (uck)
Every room in the vault is linked to one of the SPECIAL stats. The better the Dwellers stat is for that room, the
more they influence the rooms production.
The Power Generator room requires Strength; the Water Treatment room requires Perception.

Suppose you have two Dwellers:

Wayne Harvey

and

Todd Morgan

Wayne has a Strength of 5 and a Perception of 2; that means he can produce 180 POWER per hour or 72
WATER per hour
Todd has a Strength of 3 and a Perception of 3; that means he can produce 108 POWER per hour or 108
WATER per hour
Dweller

Hourly Production
WATER
POWER
Wayne Harvey
72
180
Todd Morgan
108
108
1. Suppose Wayne and Todd each produced their own WATER and POWER. Wayne and Todd spent 4hrs a day
producing POWER and 4 hours a day producing WATER. How much WATER and POWER would they
produce on their own? How much total WATER and POWER would they produce?
Dweller

4 hours of production
WATER
POWER
Wayne Harvey
288
720
Todd Morgan
432
432
Total Production 720
1152
2a. Fill in the table below with Wayne and Todds opportunity costs of producing WATER and POWER.
Dweller

Opportunity Cost
WATER
POWER
Wayne Harvey
180/72
72/180
Todd Morgan
108/108
108/108
2b. Who has the ABSOLUTE ADVANTAGE in producing each resource?

2c. Who has the COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE in producing each resource?

3a. Suppose Wayne and Todd decided to spend all day (8 hours) producing their comparative advantage
resource; then trading their resources with the other. How much WATER and POWER would they each
produce? How much extra WATER and POWER will they have?

Specialized
Production
Extra Production

Dweller
Wayne Harvey
Todd Morgan
Total

WATER
0
864
864
+144

POWER
1440
0
1440
+288

3b. How would you allocate Wayne and Todds time, to produce has more WATER and POWER than in
question 1?

4. Graph Wayne and Todds PPFs on the graphs provided

POWER

Waynes PPF

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1400

1600

WATER
POWER

Todds PPF

1600

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1400

1600

WATER

EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT

Name:

Now suppose that Wayne has been replaced by Carl

Carl has a Strength of 5 and a Perception of 4; that means he can produce 180 POWER per hour or 144
WATER per hour
Todd has a Strength of 3 and a Perception of 3; that means he can produce 108 POWER per hour or 108
WATER per hour
Dweller
Carl Wright
Todd Morgan

Hourly Production
WATER
POWER
144
180
108
108

5. Suppose Carl and Todd each produced their own WATER and POWER. Carl and Todd spent 4hrs a day
producing POWER and 4 hours producing WATER. How much WATER and POWER would they produce on
their own? How much total WATER and POWER would they produce?
Dweller
Carl Wright
Todd Morgan
Total Production

4 hours of production
WATER
POWER
576
720
432
432
1008
1152

6a. Fill in the table below with Wayne and Todds opportunity costs of producing WATER and POWER.
Dweller
Carl Wright
Todd Morgan

Opportunity Cost
WATER
180/144
108/108

POWER
144/180
108/108

6b. Who has the ABSOLUTE ADVANTAGE in producing each resource?

6c.Who has the COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE in producing each resource?

7a. Suppose Carl and Todd decided to spend all day (8 hours) producing their comparative advantage resource;
then trading their resources with the other. How much WATER and POWER would they each produce? How
much extra WATER and POWER will they have?
Specialized
Production

Dwellers
Carl Wright
Todd Morgan
Total

Extra Production

WATER
0
864
864
-144

POWER
1440
0
1440
+288

7b. How would you allocate Carl and Todds time, to produce has more WATER and POWER, than in question
5? Hint: If Todd is producing WATER, Carl can also produce WATER at the same time.
Dwellers
Specialized
Production

Carl Wright
Todd Morgan

Hours spent producing

WATER
POWER
1
7
8
0

Amount produced
WATER
144
864
Total 864
Extra Production 0

POWER
1260
0
1260
+108