What is Vault 88's population limit

[Semi-Intensive Farmraised Shrimp]

So right now I have 17 settlers, I can have up to 22 (12 base charisma + 10 minimum) settlers in each of my normal settlements without chem bonuses. Does Vault 88 allow for more than other settlements, or is it the same?

[Mio Rin]

I haven't heard anything that says that Vault 88 has a higher limit...

[Styyxx]

It doesn't say it does. But if you take all the vault suits and Pip-Boys out of the trunk it produces more. I don't know if this is in case someone dies or you send them away but a vault is an awfully big place just to have a max 22 settlers. I have only got 18 from sending them there from my other settlements. So far no one has shown up on their own from the beacon.

[CellNav]

Originally posted by seagullsquest:

It doesn't say it does. But if you take all the vault suits and Pip-Boys out of the trunk it produces more. I don't know if this is in case someone dies or you send them away but a vault is an awfully big place just to have a max 22 settlers. I have only got 18 from sending them there from my other settlements. So far no one has shown up on their own from the beacon.

After you run the Power Bike experiment it breaks the Radio Beacon switch (EMP blast). You have to ensure the beacon is reset by cycling the switch off then on again. Check your PipBoy radio and see if you are receiving the signal. When you cycle the beacon switch, click it once and wait a few seconds (it turns it off if the switch shows green on), then turn the switch back on, you should get a text in the upper left corner saying you are receiving the beacon.

The problem with the beacon is common for all radio beacons. If the power was loss to the beacon and then the power returns, it sometimes doesn't turn the beacon on automatically. If you ever have problems at other settlements where there are not recruiting, then the beacon needs recycling.

[Styyxx]

CellNav, Thanx I will try that out.

[AikenAidan]

Originally posted by seagullsquest:

It doesn't say it does. But if you take all the vault suits and Pip-Boys out of the trunk it produces more. I don't know if this is in case someone dies or you send them away but a vault is an awfully big place just to have a max 22 settlers. I have only got 18 from sending them there from my other settlements. So far no one has shown up on their own from the beacon.

I took all the suits and pipboys and now that I am Overseer those containers remain empty.

[Styyxx]

Mine refill. I will take them all again and see if they refill.

[kazereal]

I've got 30 settlers in the vault now. I haven't seen that increase in a while now.

In other settlements there's something like 21-23 now.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Zileene:

I haven't heard anything that says that Vault 88 has a higher limit...

I will know soon. The only thing that I can think of is the vault beacon DOES use a different set of rules compared to a radio beacon. Notice no brahmin come with the settlers to the vault.

Originally posted by seagullsquest:

a vault is an awfully big place just to have a max 22 settlers.

No idea why you think that is the max settlers. Last I checked with the right gear and buffs you can easily reach 50 settlers. Then on top of that there is a repeating quest that gives you three settlers that ignore your charisma limit. This does not evne include building robots ignores charisma limits.

[Styyxx]

Bored Peon, what quest is that? Also I was saying it in a sarcastic way. Why would they give us such a large space for so few people?

[Doombringer]

Automatron - Rogue Robot - you have to let the mechanist live at the end.
Talk to her until you get the quest. It will spawn 1-3 robots at the location, if there are 2+ robots they will always be fighting someone.
I think it's ~20% that the quest gives you robots fighting settlers, after the robots are dead talking to one of the settlers will let you recruit him/her.
Whatever settlement you select will have it's pop go up by 6 in pip boy and will get 3 new settlers.
(The pop will correct itself when you go to the settlement and open workshop mode.)

You cn restart the quest immediately, so spam away ;)

[Styyxx]

I keep taking all the vault suits and pip-boys out of the trunk and it keeps putting more in. It doesn't seem to be all at once thou. If I go back in a couple of minutes after emptying it there will be 3 or 4 of each. In a half an hour it goes up to 8 or 9. Usually stopping at around 17 or 18. The strange thing is the number of pip-boys is always less then the suits. But then I have the three boxes that give one at a time over and over again. And you cant scrap any of them. It might all be a bug. Like the one for trying to get the settlers to wear their pip-boys.

[Kvn0201 [BE]]

My charisma is only 10 right now but i still get more settlers in vault 88 i moved in a few and had 20 some time later i see i have 22 so i think the radio keeps recruiting new settlers ( can't "move" more in tried that already)

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Kvn0201 BE:

My charisma is only 10 right now but i still get more settlers in vault 88 i moved in a few and had 20 some time later i see i have 22 so i think the radio keeps recruiting new settlers ( can't "move" more in tried that already)

Vault beacon has a special rule. It is CHA +20 versus the CHA + 10 of normal beacons.

Originally posted by seagullsquest:

Like the one for trying to get the settlers to wear their pip-boys.

The pip boys form the chest are bugged, the one you get one at a time from the click chests work. If you drop a whole stack onto a settler and equip them it will eat the bad ones.

[badchad71]

I have 37 but I stopped doing the automatron quest to get more. If they would wander around more to the far parts of my vault I might think about getting more, but the AI is pretty lame.

[Mana Burst]

Originally posted by badchad71:

I have 37 but I stopped doing the automatron quest to get more. If they would wander around more to the far parts of my vault I might think about getting more, but the AI is pretty lame.

The pathing in the vault is also really terrible.