Fallout: New Vegas - The Boomers' Strange History with Vault 34

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Vault 34 in Fallout: New Vegas was built in the Mojave Wasteland. Like most vaults in the game, this one was also home to a twisted experiment — one involving overpopulation and plenty of guns.

Vault 34 is found north of the Follower’s Outpost and east of the Aerotech Officer Park on the map of Fallout: New Vegas. The facility is nestled inside a cave system. The area is also highly irradiated, so it’s best to bring plenty of Rad-X and RadAway when visiting.

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Vault 34 was built with a fully stocked armory that contained weapons and ammunition. This was what Vault-Tec had intended as they wanted to see how easy access to weaponry would affect the vault residents. It’s also likely that Fallout’s Vault-Tec planned for the vault’s eventual overpopulation problem, given Vault 34’s construction. It was purposefully built with limited living space but plenty of recreational facilities.

Whatever the case, the people in the vault soon developed a gun-focused culture. Borrowing guns from the armory and carrying them around became the norm. Much later, however, issues began to arise with the gradual overcrowding of the vault. Notes written by the overseer reveal that the overpopulation problem led to violence among the vault residents. Thus, the overseer stationed guards by the armory to prevent the “more troublesome residents” from getting more Fallout weapons.

This course of action quelled the greater population’s worries but not for long. Soon, inhabitants were calling for population control within Vault 34. Fearing for the worst, the overseer had a vault technician reroute the armory door’s controls so that only the overseer’s terminal could control it. They then sealed off all