Fallout: New Vegas - How Vault 21 Became A Prominent Hotel and Casino
Vault 21 in Fallout: New Vegas is one of the few functional vaults in the wasteland. However, it has gone through a lot of change since Vault-Tec built it in 2077, primarily because of Mr. House’s takeover. Looking into the facility’s history and what its former residents have to say reveal that Mr. House wasn’t exactly a welcome patron when he arrived.
To get to Vault 21 in Fallout: New Vegas, The Courier must travel to The Strip. The Vault 21 Hotel and Casino can be found next to Michael Angelo’s, and its signage seems to be made out of a vault door.
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When Vault 21 was built before the bombs fell, Fallout’s Vault-Tec arranged for a social experiment centered around gambling. Appropriately set up in the heart of pre-war Las Vegas, the residents of Vault 21 were required to settle differences through gambling. According to terminal entries in the Vault 21 Hotel, this practice created the “perfect equilibrium between self-reliance and social equality.” Because people used luck and gambling skill as a basis for settling issues, everyone was, in a sense, “equal.”
To mirror this notion of equality, Fallout: New Vegas’ Vault 21 was built to be fully symmetrical and transparent. All the living quarters were the same and the gambling sections were in plain sight so that no one could cheat. Of course, the residents didn’t gamble constantly. When they weren’t settling disputes, they would be going about their normal lives or throwing parties in the facility’s diner. Former resident Sarah Weintraub even says that everyone knew each other in the vault, suggesting that the inhabitants had a close-knit relationship.
Despite the vault’s unorthodox means of tending to
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