Every Fallout Vault Explained - Ranked From Least To Most Insane 

If there is one person I would want to be stuck in a fallout vault with it’s this FranklyGaming guy what a stud

Vault 84's horror is subtle but mentally insidious because someone has to be voted out so even if everyone is friendly, helpful and well behaved someone still has to go, this will inevitably create clandestine clique behavior, conspiratorial actions and a two faced population.

I like how he started off the video with one of the most fucked up social experiments on the list.

vault 68 should be in the horror category at the minimum. my absolute worst nightmare would be a singular woman trapped somewhere with 100 men.

The vault where the wife tried to save her husband from being sacrificed literally broke my heart. Vault tec has to be one of the WORST fictional companies ever. For real..

Dude really said "the vault I most want to be in is the one where they purge the undesirables"

Fun fact about vault 13 the only reason why the water shortage happened is because of a delivery error causing their supply of water chips to be sent to vault 8 instead

I clicked on this purely for the thumbnail. Easily the funniest thumbnail I've ever seen, bravo.

RANKED FROM LEAST TO MOST INSANE!!!!! Ok...surely we won't start off in something terrible. "The least terrible vault is a 1984 police state where everyone is constantly performing social niceties to not be an outlier in a literal exile lottery. I unironically don't see how this wouldn't be fucking horrible to live in." Sure thing dude.

"The only mainline entry that doesn't start in a vault" Did....did I not get shot as a postal worker?

16:45 "Radiation doesn't actually affect fauna", fauna means animal life, and it definitely does. It does to flora too(plant life), but cancer isn't as catastrophic to them.

Fallout 4 starts in a bathroom

How he's ranked and embellished the story of these vaults provides a lot of insight into his personality.

Vault 84 honestly sounds pretty shitty… imagine having to fake smile at everyone all the time, over apologize for every little thing, coddle up to everyone you may or may not bump into, all out of the CONSTANT FEAR that you’ll be the next one exiled. People being “good” to each other, yet not because they actually care, but because they prioritize their own survival over everyone else’s… because once a year someone HAS to go, and no one wants to be that person. Homie talks about Vault 84 like it’s paradise, but that shit honestly sounds nightmarish. This vault is essentially an exact replica of the famed Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life”. I understand why it’s not canon anymore, because the idea that it would make everyone into a natural born goody two shoes is as unrealistic as it gets, and doesn’t come close to addressing the actual horrors that would stem up from such a social experiment. But yeah, watch the old Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life” 1961, if you wanna see a more realistic representation of what “being kind” out of constant fear of exile looks like.

16:00 Vault 76 is often misunderstood to be a control vault. It actually is not. The experiment was to see if left alone, with three self-replicating missile silos would the vault dwellers begin to fight each other; including the use of nuclear missiles. The overseer delayed the release of the vault dwellers by 5 years where she could leave first to try and secure the silos. She even prevented (originally in the early version) the vault dwellers to leave the vault without arms from the vault as an order to security. PS. When a player goes to a silo to launch there second missile, they can find a holotape from the overseer telling them how disappointed she is in them and how she tried to prevent her vault dwellers in launching nukes at each other.

Kinda wish each vault was timestamped

Vault 55 should be perfectly okay imo. Humans have only had movies for around 140 years and tv for less So thousands and thousands of years of humans never experienced movies and had other forms of entertainment You can play games with each other, draw, sing, dance, put on plays, maybe read if they have books, knit, crochet, sew (if they have materials), talk lol I guess itd take time to get used to, but i dont think having no video media inherently leads to chaos For 56, i think its only an issue if the movies are constantly played as a form of torture. But if its where the people just have the ability to play one type of movie, then they could just not play it and be in the same boat as 55

Vault-Tec let's lock a man with a crate full of puppets. The Puppet-Man becomes the most insane person in the fallout series.

2:47 _Remember people, It's called _*_"Vault-Tech Assisted Targeting System"_*_ not _*_"Very Accurate Targeting System"_*

The vault with the visions, and the scientist at the end is even more interesting when you realize that this scientist had the power to cause insanity, and turned invisible. Also, he had raider voice-lines, meaning he unlocked psychic powers.

Really enjoyed the video, however I have a few corrections; 1. Fallout and Fallout 2 don't take place back to back, you play as The Vault Dweller in the first game, and their grandchild The Chosen One, who is from the tribal village that The Vault Dweller founded. 2. Harold the Ghoul was already a mutant during the first game (and had been for 50 years)

1:14:44 the insane thing that's going on is that the player you control is now breathing in the same psychotic drugs that made everyone else go insane.. the survivors you fight, the family and scientist, non of it is real.. it's in your head and you are just experiencing a psychotic experience from a third person view. At least that's how I interpreted it a long with everyone else I know who played the game.

Let me put my little grain of sand here, When the Chernobyl accident happened there was a part where a big section of the forest took the mayor blast of radiation and the trees immediatly died and became stale, this trees to this day are still dead, the real reason why a lot of the Chernobyl Flora and Fauna is not dead is because the accident was managed and contained, but even tho you see dogs running around, their life span has decreased by at least 50% and many became sterile, there are spots where radiation didn't hit so bad and there is good enough vegetation, but you can see spots that took a hit and are dry and dead, one good example is Semipalatinsk, where the soviets tested a lot of their nuclear weapons and the place looks like a post apocalyptic dystopia.

Trying not to get bit by the vault 81 mole rats was the hardest challenge i did in fallout 4. A lot of juking out rats and jumping on boxes and reloading anytime i got bit 😂

Plot twist, the unknown experiment in vault 96 is actually the mysterious stranger who is also debated to have space and time warping powers. dun dun DUUUUNNN!!!

And what happens when all bad apples have been removed from the vault? If there's only extremely good people left and they still have to banish someone, there will be extreme tragedies

I would argue Vault 68 belongs in Horror...

I haven’t seen it from another comment, but Vault 51 with ZAX very much feels like a “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream” reference, especially with how it ends.

Real OGs remember how hard and stressful Vault 34 in New Vegas was. 😇

For vault 81 I just kept quicksand everytime I killed a batch of mole rats and if I got bit I'd reload and then go again, I got through without Being infected so I cured Austin

I don't know if I just interpreted it weird, but what really made me think 11 was such a tragedy is that with the way the Congratulations Speech sounds makes it sound like Vault Tech expected them to stop the sacrifices way earlier. Vault Tech, the basically heartless monsters of these stories, actually expected those dwellers to be better people. If VAULT TECH had overestimated my morality, I would've reacted the same way, because that's basically being worse than the devil

Truly one of the most terrifying things imaginable go on in Fallout: reenactments of the horrors undergone during wwii and other horrific human experiments, the plot to bioshock, and literally just putting people in a box with a panther or puppets. Great video. I'd heard of a decent handful of these but it's nice to have everything laid out so succinctly.

I love the theory of the vaults being experiments to help the enclave develop a generational mothership to leave earth, i.e cryogenic stasis or how much radiation can humans be exposed to and various social situations that could arise like would a group of people sacrifice 1 person for the survival of the rest etc

76 wasn't the first multiplayer Fallout game, that would be Fallout Tactics, who's multiplayer was absolutely insane and I miss it

I've never even played Fallout, and yet I watched through this whole video. Good job!

In all my time, I never expected a lore video to start off with a Lorn song

At 1:22:30, you said raiders took out the pacifists. It wasnt. It was actually idiot farmers that thought the vault dwellers were setting a trap.

Fallout 2 doesn't pick up right after 1? Fallout 2 doesn't start when the overseer turns you away? Fallout 2 is literally 80 years later than 1

16:45 what are you TALKING about? Radiation very much affects animals (fauna) - and even if you meant to say flora, that's still incorrect! In fact, radiation can be quite deadly for flora, though it typically survives in areas like Chernobyl as they are highly efficient at destroying cancerous growths - so what likely happened is that an initial population of trees died due to exposure, but individuals within the radius of lower exposure survived and repopulated the area. Well, that's just a layman speculating - either way, flora and fauna are very much affected by radiation - hell, some sorts of grapefruit are a direct consequence of radiation testing!

In Vault 106, isn't the reason for the people still being there the player's own hallucinations? I mean the drugs are still being pumped, and radiation may have affected the player to be more resistant to the drugs, hence why you still get hallucinations but not completely lose your mind.

The thumbnail was complete genius

"We could separate parents and children, and only the strongest survive." Cooper: 🤨

You missed Vault 10 from Fallout Nuka Break. It's not canon, but the Obsidian team did put the 'Nuka Breaker' weapon in New Vegas as a nod to the series. That was a vault in which they only had Nuka Cola and Fancy Lads junk food to eat, and all the vault residents became obese as a result. The husky Ben is called Twig as an insult by his fellow vault residents for being so small.

Love the video, just wanted to add a side note about Vault 76 and 94. Unlike most other vaults that had their experiments inside, 76's took place outside of the vault. It's hinted at through the Overseer's dialogue and backstory that Vault tec, upon finding out that the overseer knew about the sinister nature of the vaults, switched her original designation from Vault 101 to 76 and was given a secret mission to secure the regions nuclear silos for vault tec. However, because the task alone was near impossible, the overseer speculates that vault tec knew she would resort to asking the dwellers of 76 for help. The implied experiment is to see what would happen if America's best and brightest who were carefully selected for their competitive nature, were suddenly thrust into a region with limited resources with nuclear silos in the mix without the ability to go back into vault 76 due to the 24-hour shutdown protocol that would cut off air circulation rendering the vault lethal upon receiving the all clear signal, forcing most out of the vault, except for a few who got an additional year out of the vault by reprogramming the mister Handys to circumvent the system until food supplies ran out. As for 94, it wasn't Raiders but four paranoid envoys sent by the mayor of Harpers Ferry to investigate the claims of 94; the mistrust of the four led to the slaughter of innocents and merely chalked their pacifism to the idea that the G.E.C.K. stored in 94 was a mind control device not knowing what it actually was and then proceeded to shoot it with a minigun, resulting in a catastrophic, mutagenic explosion which created the mire.

I’m still not over that thumbnail… I went to the artists twitter to track it down I love it so much lmao.

Vault 68: Of the one thousand people who entered, there was only one woman Vault 69: Of the one thousand people who entered, there was only one man

The intro song is Lorn - Sega Sunset for those who wanted to know

The first vault you mention and the one where they vote on who to sacrifice are basically the same thing and would lead to equally horrible societies..

Kenneth Colins is the one who made Curie the way she is now, he was one of the 3 researchers who made it into the vault before the bombs and if I remember correctly you can read a good amount of info about him and his relationship with Curie on old computers in the vault’s research section

What a terrible take on 84. The constant threat of summary eviction would lead to horrendous social interactions and dynamics. Imagine Big Brother dialled up to 11. No one would be genuine, everyone would know no one is genuine. Paranoia would run rife and it would turn into a plotter and schemers den.

Radiation absolutely does affect both flora (which I'm assuming you meant) and fauna. It just doesn't melt them like it does animals because plants can replace damaged cells easier. But they can still die and mutate just like animals can.

Never gave much thought to the One Man & a Crate of Puppets. But the idea of "protecting the world from him" literally gave me chills

The vaults were part of Project Safehouse, an Enclave initiative to study human behavior in different scenarios, so they could build a spaceship and leave Earth behind. Tim Cain revealed this recently on his channel, since he's the originator of Fallout I accept it as canon.

Imagine having to fight off a panther like oh heck nah

ok but can we talk about how dysfunctional vault 68 would be innately? like dying while giving birth is a pretty common occurance and medicine in the fallout series observably hasnt advanced enough to prevent it

Intro song's from Lorn, Sega Sunset. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mauV2NdCs60.html Go find more Lorn, he`s great.

I feel like Vault 84 would fall apart real fast. If you had an idea that you were on the list you would have no reason to fake a smile.

I really appreciate the shoutout to Prey at 19:50. By a pretty wide margin, the single best game I have ever played. The beginning is unmatched, the gameplay and story are refreshing and unique. Atmosphere and setting are goated. Lore is perfect, and the ending is phenomonal. Criminally, criminally underrated. The fact that it isn't as widely known, and the fact that it is only rated around 80/100 on review sites is absolutely abhorrent. Goated game, and I wish more people knew about it

Hate to admit it but my favorite vault of all is 112 tranquility Lane. First fallout I ever played was 3 and it was a gift from my grandma. Never heard of it sooo I knew nothing going in. I just so happened to stumble across the vault pretty early on and instantly let out "Oh my God what fresh hell is this!?!?" I've loved it ever since....

That first vault sounds like a nightmare bro, living in constant fear, does not sound like a fun time

Sega sunset was a fire choice for an intro song. This video auto played while I was away from my phone and it got my attention immediately

All those "I hate Nate" posters threw me off back when I first played that vault. It's my name.

Havent hears a lorn song in the background of a video, and im so happy you chose it. Its such a mood!

Me randomly watching 1hr long fallout lore videos at 3 am in the morning

Intro song: Lorn - Sega Sunset

This is an excellent video. You obviously put tons of work into it and it shows.

Prey's opening and Titanfall 2's "time warp" mission will forever be 2 of the best missions in all of gaming imo. FO3's opening of the vault being a close contender.

I’ve been waiting for a good in depth video like this, thank you so much😭

You forget with Vault 76, while the vault itself didn't have an experiment, it still had an ulterior motive. As the Wiki entry states: "However, Vault 76 also had another objective: the Vault's overseer was ordered to find and secure three nuclear silos all on her own after its opening. If these sites were still nuclear-capable, she was to ensure no one except Vault-Tec could access or launch nuclear ordnance. Any other authorities, government, militia or otherwise, were to be ignored, to ensure that Vault-Tec alone controlled these silos and could deny their use to any third parties, even if it meant going against any surviving United States Armed Forces personnel that would assert control of the silos themselves as part of the U.S. Department of Defense. However, Vault-Tec may have known that the task was impossible for her to accomplish on her own, especially since they purposefully picked someone young and inexperienced for an overseer." On top of that, The Overseer even had to let her Fiancé be left outside when the end came, because she wanted to make sure she could remain Overseer and undermine this Social Experiment and not make the Vault Residents into an Army for Vault-Tec, so much so when we were forced to use the silos to stop the Scorched Queen, she felt betrayed.

Vault 11 HAS to be the story for Fallout 5.

Dude love the approach to fallout lore and how flexible but true to it you are. Shows your love and dedication to such a fun setting and what if scenario the games seek to portray. Keep up the great work!!

I really enjoyed the connection between the dog bowl being moved outside and the “mysterious” shack. Such a fun connection

Are you telling me brendan schuab ran a comedy vault?

Hey man this shit awesome, also your voice is great. It's easy to study with as background noise.

"I'd want to live in the vault where everyone is fake as hell because they're living in constant fear of being the next exile, it sounds like paradise!" 🤨

I remember watching you on twitch, I'm glad you are doing well on youtube.

AAA tier video my man. In my first playthrough I never really took the time to look at the environmental story telling and read the terminal logs. Now it's a totally new experience as I take the time to learn about the environment. Fear and interest in the unknown is why this franchise thrives.

Vault 68 and 69 both seem absolutely horrendous, the open infighting over a single woman between a massive number of men (not to speak of the horrible life she'd live) and the constant bickering and more aubtle infighting between a bunch of women (not to speak of the guy's eventually quite unpleasant experience there) both sound like the exact kind of stuff I'd stay way the hell away from

Pretty sure the 99 men would think there's order until tensions flared and she's just gangRed to death, or just straight up murdered for not wanting to sleep with a guy who couldn't deal. It was my first thought when I heard it.

Can't believe nobody caught on to the AlchestBreach reference with Jerry McGhoulberry

somehow tonight this turned into my Fallout radio as I wandered the commonwealth

“Vault 88 is the best” Except there was a secret experiment that few people know about. Even the current overseer… Lag induced crashing! (I love this game but it doesn’t love me back)

2k folks crammed into a space meant for a couple hundred is just what my highschool experience was

Remember how the goal was talking about buying a house up in bakersfield. I wonder if we're gonna see him and his daughter go to that vault.And then he gets separated from his daughter and that's how he gets turned into a goal

That thumbnail is epic😂😂

If I wasn’t already subbed from your killer videos I would have 100% from the thumb nail. Always good to see love for always sunny

I'm so glad someone finally acknowledged how great Prey's opening was. Absolute banger video btw :)

I find one of the most interesting things around the worlds are how many different ways people deleted themselves. Some are sad, some are funny, some are wtf, but it's wild to wonder what they were thinking or feeling by looking at how they did it.

I love that you didn't stray away from the gritty details, great video!

What a great way to start the morning

55:35 I find it interesting, as a newcomer to the series, how the Brainbots of Vault 118 look so similar to the robobrain creatures you can create via splicing in Old World Blues in FalloutNV. Makes you wonder if Big MT was in on the procedure as well as Vault-Tec and the rich dwellers.

First video I’ve ever seen from your channel, and you already have me hooked.

Hey, what's the background music at the very beginning of the video?

Nice job very detailed and lengthy video.

I love that you included Lorn soundtrack at beggining

I want to clarify that this is not a TLDR of FranklyGaming’s thoughts or further information on each vault. Merely a chapter list if you want to reference one in specific. I only include the original experiment in the list, not the following circumstances. Further organisation of the vaults in the replies. I suggest watching FG’s commentary on each vault so that you have a better understanding of why it gets placed where. The “Good” and Unknown 1:18 Vault 84 (Noncanon): From the Fallout board game. Every year one person is voted out for being “dangerous” and the like. 4:38 Vault 81 (Canon): From Fallout 4. Tested on human beings with different ailments to attempt to make a “Universal Cure” for anything plaguing humanity. 9:11 Vault 8 (Canon): From Fallout 2. A control vault in order to verify the results of the other experimental vaults. 11:31 Vault 13 (Canon): From Fallout 1 & 2. A control vault in order to verify the results of the other experimental vaults. 14:53 Vault 76 (Canon): From Fallout 76. A control vault in order to verify the results of the other experimental vaults. 17:23 Vault 111 (Canon): From Fallout 4. Tested cryogenic pods and human stasis. 19:44 Vault 101 (Canon): From Fallout 3. Never allowed to go outside again. 21:50 Vault 15 (Canon): From Fallout 1 & 2. Forced people with very different ideologies to live together as opposed to most other homogenous vaults. 23:41 Vault 88 (Canon): From Fallout 4. Tested distribution products for other vaults. 25:19 Vault 55 (Noncanon): From the Fallout Bible. No entertainment video tapes were provided to residents. 26:01 Vault 56 (Noncanon): From the Fallout Bible. The only tape provided to this vault was of a mediocre comedian performing his sets. 26:39 Vault 36 (Noncanon): From the Fallout Bible. The food extruder only supplied thin watery gruel. 27:13 Vault 42 (Noncanon): From the Fallout Bible. All light sources produced a maximum of 40 watts. 27:42 Vault 53 (Noncanon): From the Fallout Bible. Every piece of equipment consistently broke every few months. However, each piece was easily fixable. 28:22 Vault 29 (Canon): From Fallout 76 and the Fallout Bible. Only children under 15 were allowed access to the vault. 29:18 Vault 79 (Canon): From Fallout 76. Where the United States gold reserves were stored. 29:56 Vault 70 (Noncanon): From the Fallout Bible. The jumpsuits were planned to fail after 6 months. 30:35 Vault 44 (Noncanon): From Fallout: New California. Dangerously experimented on animals. 31:13 Vault 27 (Noncanon): From the Fallout Bible. Purposefully overcrowded with 2000 people in the space of a vault meant for a few hundred. 31:56 Vault 17 (Canon): From Fallout New Vegas. Nothing is known about this vault. 32:13 Vault 6 (Canon): From Fallout New Vegas. Every day a small amount of radiation would be pumped in through the ventilation system. Wild n’ Wacky 32:56 Vault 68 (Noncanon): From the Fallout Bible. A vault with 999 men and 1 woman. 32:56 Vault 69 (Noncanon): From the Fallout Bible. A vault with 999 women and 1 man. 36:23 Vault 120 (Noncanon): From Fallout 4. Entire vault was located underwater. Unsure of the actual experiment being run here. 38:38 Vault 4 (Canon): From Season 1 of the Fallout TV show. Genetic experiments led by scientists on live human test subjects. 42:40 Vault 0 (Noncanon): From Fallout Tactics. Prewar geniuses and leadership had their brains removed and put into cryogenic stasis while their minds were hooked up to a supercomputer. 44:38 Vault 108 (Canon): From Fallout 3. Meant to have their power source fail 20 years into the experiment and have no lasting leadership. Also experimented with cloning trials. 47:50 Vault 43 (Noncanon): From One Man, and a Crate Full of Puppets. Home to 20 men, 10 women, and a hungry panther. 49:32 Vault 51 (Canon): From Fallout 76. Controlled by a ZAX computer to find an overseer. 53:22 Vault 118 (Canon): From Fallout 4. 100 affluent rich individuals had control over 300 lower class people. 56:11 Vault 21 (Canon): From Fallout: New Vegas. All status was stripped of people and instead every issue was resolved with gambling. 58:18 Vaults 31 (Canon): From Season 1 of the Fallout TV show. Vault Tec employees lived in cryogenic pods in order to allow them to live hundreds of years. 58:18 Vaults 32 (Canon): From Season 1 of the Fallout TV show. A vault filled with inhabitants who were meant to be part of the breeding pool for the Vault Tec employees in order to continue their lineage. 58:18 Vaults 33 (Canon): From Season 1 of the Fallout TV show. A vault filled with inhabitants who were meant to be part of the breeding pool for the Vault Tec employees in order to continue their lineage. 1:01:37 Vault 34 (Canon): From Fallout New Vegas. Vault Tec provided many destructive weapons to the people inside the vault to see how they would handle this power. 1:04:18 Vault 114 (Canon): From Fallout 4. Well off people were stripped of their status and were led by an incompetent dictator of an overseer. 1:05:39 Vault 96 (Canon): From Fallout 76. Originally posed as a “Noah’s Ark” where they would slowly release animals into the wasteland, the scientists soon discovered that they were meant to experiment on these animals using radiation and viruses. Real Horror 1:08:13 Vault 22 (Canon): From Fallout New Vegas. Genetic experiments with flora in order to supply food resources. 1:12:38 Vault 106 (Canon): From Fallout 3. Vault Tec pumped drugs through the vents to see the effects on citizens. However, the drugs never stopped. 1:16:14 Vault 19 (Canon): From Fallout New Vegas. Series of minute scares plagued the vault dwellers for the purpose of driving them insane. 1:18:01 Vault 3 (Canon): From Fallout News Vegas. A control vault in order to verify the results of the other experimental vaults. 1:19:30 Vault 12 (Canon): From Fallout 1. The vault door was kept open, letting radiation into the vault. 1:21:31 Vault 94 (Canon): From Fallout 76. The vault was solely populated with pacifists. Eventually, the doors opened to the vault letting the raiders in. 1:23:09 Vault 95 (Canon): From Fallout 4. The vault was intended to be a rehabilitation centre for the dwellers which consisted of drug addicts. Utter Insanity 1:25:10 Vault 11 (Canon): From Fallout New Vegas. One person must be killed every year. Was always the overseer. 1:30:36 Vault 92 (Canon): From Fallout 3. Populated by instrumental musicians. The only thing played was white noise. 1:34:59 Vault 75 (Canon): From Fallout 4. Parents and kids were put in the vault. Parents were killed and kids were tested on. 1:37:56 Vault 77 (Canon): From Fallout 3. Only one man made it to the vault, where inside, he found a crate of puppets. 1:41:48 Vault 87 (Canon): From Fallout 3. Before the experiment could start the US government took it over and became a testing ground for FEV. 1:45:58 Vault 112 (Canon): From Fallout 3 Used vr programs to trap people in Tranquility Lane. 1:49:06 Vault 63 (Canon): From Fallout 76. The fear of the unknown.

This was an awesome watch, keep up the awesome content!!!

But what vault do we deliver Pepe Silvia's mail?

Listened to this while going to sleep. Very calming, thank you. 😊

Damn. That's intense and interesting and your tone of voice really make feel there. It took me 3 days but finished the video. I haven't played all the games, but knowing this definitely expands my knowledge on those unknown game and the lore. Thanks. 😊