Special thanks to New franken, Grand Enclave and New Decandsor for creating and maintaining this factbook.

Population is assigned to jobs to run factories, gather resources, grow food, etc. For simplicity's sake, your population is divided up into units of 1,000, called “Pops.” A Pop can be assigned to one job at a time - for example, a Pop cannot both grow food and gather resources at the same time. Any excess population that is less than 1,000 is not available to work (but they can still serve in the military). Military personnel are not arranged in the Pop format. However, standing military personnel are not available for work. When a tile gets a strategic resource applied it automatically comes with one job producing one of the said resources. Certain jobs are not tied to tiles and collect their corresponding resources. These jobs are; Farmers, Fishermen, Scrap Collectors, Scrap Electronics Sorters (consumes Scrap to make Scrap Electronics), Material Collectors, and Artisan Smiths. The Artisan Smith is a special job only needed before a foundry is built and can smelt scrap into steel or aluminum. Fishermen can only be assigned if your faction has adjacent Sea or Great Lakes tiles.

Certain machines and creatures can also form Pops; 100 Mr. Handy robots is a Robot Pop, and 100 Super Mutants is a Super Mutant pop.

There are two different kinds of tiles, Basic Tiles and City Tiles which will be colored Gold on the resource map located on the Regional Map Factbook. When a Basic Tile is taken the player will roll to determine if the tile has any Strategic Resources, according to the Basic Tile Loot Table. The best tiles are the City Tiles, which have a chance to give Manufactured Resources and have the possibility of coming with a Large size structure. Some tiles, like City Tiles, have special rules. To see what resource spawn at what dice rolls, see the loot tables below.

Special Tile Rules
- City Tiles produce two resources simultaneously.

Custom Tile Rule
If you find a location that exists in real life or the games that would produce a certain resource you can request it produce it without rolling the dice as long as the tile has not already had a resource determined for it. For example, if you find a coal mine that isn't too old, that tile could be coal-producing. However, all other rules still apply.

Common Resources

Rations: Rations are required to sustain your population. 1 Ration provides for 1,000 people. Initially one Pop assigned to produce rations will produce enough for itself and one additional Pop. A total of two rations are produced from one Farmer Pop, at initial standard output. This means that, when starting out, half your population must produce rations to sustain the entire population. Your Pops must be working rations at all times. Should a moderator notice not enough of your Pops are assigned to rations you will lose population based on your Preparedness stat. Should the moderator feel this rule is being ignored you may lose more at their discretion. If you purposely choose to not feed your people the population loss is taken from the difference in the population you don’t have rations for. This population loss must be calculated once every week and will be checked by moderators. Your Preparedness stat will lower the impact of not having enough rations. It will also allow for free days so that the population will not need rations, this only applies at the beginning of your faction. Think of it as starting with enough rations. If you are lacking rations when the natural population increase happens you will automatically lose that population. The following spoiler displays the effects of Preparedness on population loss.

Robot pops do not need food. Super Mutants, on the other hand, require the same amount of food as a normal human pop, despite being smaller.

Scrap: Scrap is used mostly to smelt down into steel or aluminum and is used to “find” (produce) scrap electronics.

Building Materials: Building Materials are necessary to build all tile improvements, buildings, and defensive structures.

Blubber: Blubber represents processed animal fats, mainly of marine origin. It is used as a fuel for steam vehicles and ships, and is available as a feedstock for making more advanced types of fuel.

Strategic Resources

Uses for Strategic resources are not limited to the suggestions here.

Coal: Coal is needed to power foundries, coal-powered warships, coal power plants, and used in synthetic materials in clothing and armor.

Nuclear Material: Needed to make mini-nukes, power nuclear vehicles, power armor, and repair and maintain nuclear power plants.

Manufactured Resources

Scrap Electronics: Scrap Electronics are needed to produce a variety of vehicles and T-60+ power armor. (Produced through sorting Scrap)

Gold: Gold is needed for energy weapons and advanced power armor (Advanced BoS PA+. Produced by smelting Scrap Electronics)

Steel: Steel is a very important resource. As it is a high-quality material it is one of two resources that are extremely rare on a City Tile and can only be reliably produced by melting down scrap. Steel is used to produce almost everything.

Aluminum: Aluminum, like Steel, is a high-quality resource that is extremely rare on a City Tile and can only be reliably produced by melting down scrap. Aluminum is used mainly to build aircraft.

Basic Structures: There are three Basic Structures, the foundry, the factory, and the shipyard. Each comes in four sizes: small, medium, large, and super. Basic Structures are also limited by Industrial Capacity (IC). Everything that is produced has an IC score assigned to it. A factory or foundry cannot exceed its Industrial Capacity score. See the spoiler below.

Special Building Rules
- Temporary Industry stat increases do not unlock new buildings; only affect the build time.
- When calculating the impact of your Industry score on build/repair time, always round up.
- Only one building improvement can be built per tile.
- Basic Structures are NOT restricted to tiles.

Foundry: While steel and aluminum can be smelted by hand without a foundry, having one decreases the amount of scrap needed to produce one steel. Foundries are also the only way to get this reduction. (*Note* Foundries can not produce anything but manufactured resources.)
Smelting by hand:
You can assign one "Pop" to an Artisan Smith job before getting a Foundry up and running, however, remember it costs more "Pops" working Scrap Collector jobs to supply the necessary materials.

Factory: Factories are essential to supply an army for war. All war materials are created in factories. See the Standard Building Requirements below.

Shipyard : Shipyards are required for building warships and other watercraft.

Standard Building Requirements: All Buildings require One “Pop” to build.

Finding Basic Structures
Finding basic structures in the wasteland will always take less time to repair, as well as be cheaper. See the requirements above. When you roll to determine what resource your new tile may have you will also use that roll to determine how many basic structures there are and their size. See the Basic Structures Loot Tables below. After that roll, you will roll to determine the repair time. To determine that, divide the standard building time in half, roll a d20 on the discord by using the command t!roll d20, increase the time by that percentage listed on the condition table and then factor in your Industry stat. See the example below. Put the number of structures awarded by your roll in front of the d20. For example, if your roll grants you three structures when you make the condition roll, put the number 3 in front of the d20 like this, t!roll 3d20. Each number will determine their condition from left to right starting with the smallest size structure to the largest.

Note:
When making a roll please state the reason for rolling and tag a moderator. Make all condition rolls in the #dice-roll-wing channel. Each line of the example must be entered separately.
(For example;
rolling for a medium factory in Richmond @New Franken
!roll d20)

1: Severely damaged +100%
2-4: Heavily damaged +70%
5-15: Moderate damage +50%
16-19: Light damage +30%
20: Minimal damage +10%

For example; engineers want to repair a medium factory with a standard build time divided in half equals 10.5 days (21/2=10.5). You roll a 10 on the d20 roll. This increases it by 50%, 10.5+50%=15.75 days. Then you input your Industry stat. Let's say you have an Industry of 7, reducing the time by 20%, 15.75-20%= 12.6 days. In this scenario it would take 13 days to repair this medium factory, rounding all numbers up to the nearest whole number. Rinse and repeat for each resource required.

Common Resource Improvements: Upgrades for common resources are not tied to tiles, and instead act more like Basic Structures. Upgrades improve the efficiency of pops assigned to them. There is no limit to the number of upgrades that may be built in a single tile.

Rations:

Scrap/Building Materials:

Fishing:
Blubber output is not improved by constructing buildings, but by providing the Fisherman pop with appropriate tools (in this case, ships). Only one ship is required per pop to obtain the upgrade. Adding additional ships to the pop does not increase its output.

Tile Improvements: Tile Improvements add jobs or have other functions. They must be built in the tile that produces the corresponding resource. Stage 0 is the unimproved level of basic resource extraction. Each stage above stage 0 requires 1 “Pop” to construct. If you have any suggestions for Special Buildings or Tile Improvements please leave a suggestion in #vault-suggestion-box if you have an idea.

Coal
Stage 0: Surface Mines: 1 Miner Job
Stage 1: Shallow Tunnels (4 scrap, 1 steel) +1 Job (2 jobs total)
Stage 2: Deep Tunnels (6 scrap, 2 steel, 2 building materials) +2 Job (4 jobs total)

Nuclear Material:
Stage 0: Containment Boxes: 1 Job
Stage 1: Small Containment Center (2 scrap, 4 building material) +1 Job (2 jobs total)
Stage 2: Large Containment Complex (4 scrap, 1 steel, 6 building material) +1 Job (3 jobs total)

Specialized Buildings
Algae Farms: Agriculture 5 required (4 scrap, 6 building material, 14 days to construct)
- 1 job, +1 Organic Oil per pop

Miscellaneous Construction:

Major Roadways/Railways:
2 IRL days per each tile the construction crosses into.
Components:
- Roads: 3 Building Material per tile.
- Railroads: 1 Steel, 1 Building Material. Requires either Coal or Fuel to run.

Communications:
2 IRL days per tile/each tile the construction crosses into.
Components:
- Radio Towers: 1 Steel, 1 Scrap Electronics
- Telegraph Lines: 1 Gold, 1 Scrap

Irrigation:
7 IRL days per tile. Must have an adjacent river or irrigated tile. +1 Rations to all Farms in a tile.
- Irrigation: 2 Building Materials

Airbases
Airstrip: Basically a patch of dirt next to some tents, allows the deployment of prop planes up to Medium Bomber.
- 2 IRL days, no cost.
Airbase: Concrete runway with a barn and a few Quonset huts, perhaps. Radio/Small Radar tower is optional. Allows Jet Fighters but not Jet Bombers, Heavy Bombers.
- 7 IRL days, 1 Steel/5 Building Materials/(2 Scrap Electronics)
Large Airbase: Dedicated runway and logistics facilities for a fully-equipped Air Force. Radar/Radio is optional.
- 21 IRL days, 5 Steel/12 Building Material/(5 Scrap Electronics)

*Roads and railroads are required for PvP combat. If you do not have a road (with trucks) or a running railroad connecting your army with their source of ammunition, then the effectiveness of your semi-automatic/automatic weapons is considered to be equivalent to that of bolt-action or breech-loading weapons due to supply constraints.

Below are the loot tables for resources and structures. When a tile is approved the player will roll the loot table in the #dice-roll channel. It is possible to not receive any resources as a result of the roll. You will use the same roll to determine the amount and size of basic structures available in the tile to be repaired. You may choose what type of structure they are, between factories, foundries, or shipyards. If a player rolls a natural 20 (not as a result of a bonus to the roll), the player can choose what resource they want from that table. You can either add or subtract your Luck stat to your roll, or not apply it at all.