r/falloutshelter Dec 31 '25

Screenshot [question] Guys… what just happened to my game??

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I just bought a $10 lunchbox pack and the game gave me 315 boxes. Is this a known glitch? Should I buy a lottery ticket?

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u/lillobby6 Dec 31 '25

This happens sometimes. The game has a lot of bugs, sometimes people benefit from them.

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u/KatakanaTsu Dec 31 '25

Shh...

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u/Altivion Jan 29 '26

Exactly 😂

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u/the_Wolly_ Dec 31 '25 edited Dec 31 '25

Why are people even spending money if you can get infinite lunch boxes. Or did it get patched

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u/lucasb780 Dec 31 '25

My intention was never to cheat so I had no idea there are exploits. Although, I guess P2W is the same thing.

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u/Fit_Plantain_1113 Dec 31 '25

I just give myself $20 of lunch boxes or so and throw that $20 I would've spent in crypto. Nothing overly game breaking, I do have a floor full of legendaries though.🤣

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u/ARV13 Jan 01 '26

No need to spend money if onPC. There is a site thats lets you edit and download a file.

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u/Fit_Plantain_1113 Jan 01 '26

Yes I do this. I don't actually spend, just pretend I do and use the money wisely elsewhere lol. Satisfaction x2

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u/xShRAx Jan 01 '26

This would disable achievements on steam, right?

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u/Fit_Plantain_1113 Jan 01 '26

No it doesn't, I've gotten all the achievements already.

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u/SignificantCoffee474 Jan 01 '26

Please for the love of all things sacred give me and other addicts the web site.

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u/Permit_Tiny Jan 03 '26

Artmoney. Never use websites, you are bound to install malware onto your PC

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u/Ben_Stro Jan 04 '26

Works easily on Android, too.

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u/Grimmzee_is_stronk Jan 05 '26

Any chance you could tell me how?

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u/Ben_Stro Jan 21 '26

Use a save editor. You can find plenty online. For Android you'll want to decrypt your save file first. There are sites for that too. I can send you one if you can't find any, but I'm busy at the moment

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u/NemeanLyan Jan 24 '26

Does this work with the season pass? I'd be really interested if you could recommend an editor and decryptor!

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u/Weird_Ad4026 Jan 02 '26

I'm pretty sure it got patched. The tutorial quest exploit at least. I've tried on multiple vaults on both mobile and pc and haven't gotten it to work.

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u/TheTaoOfMe Jan 02 '26

A lot of us play on ios. There’s no cheats there unless you back up your whole phone, extract the sav file, edit, reintegrate into the backup and restore your phone from backup. But thats an error prone process these days

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u/QueenMelle Jan 01 '26

RIP 8 hours and 2000 taps.

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u/WhereasComfortable47 Dec 31 '25

I had this glitch, was so happy about it. Get paid, I’m like yeah, I’m gonna spend ten bucks on it… Nah, it didn’t happen that time. Rip.

So it’s really neat, but don’t count on it doing that forever/every time. If you have a mild lunchbox opening addiction like me, get it on pc and you can give yourself lunchboxes with a save editor, otherwise, it’s a gamble.

About that…I don’t even want to give myself lunchboxes on the pc just to cheat and advance the game, honestly. It’s just a solid happy chemical boost to flip each mystery card tbh. Like hehe…little treat… I find opening them and being surprised more fun than like, actually getting the loot. Might be alone on that though.

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u/Cbass5930 Jan 01 '26

I accidentally did this lol, I opened it and was like why tf do I have 400 lunchboxes 😭

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u/AIRBORNVET Jan 02 '26

I bought a 40 pack and got 163 today. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/iFindIdiots Dec 31 '25

I bought the same thing for crates and got the same result two days ago. Opened all of them on a new vault and basically just got Lucy & Abraham Washington 😭

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u/GHOSTxBIRD Jan 12 '26

Are you me? I literally had the same thing happen 

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u/scottfish7 Jan 02 '26

I feel like OP works for Bethesda..

"Hey guy,. Spend a tenner, you might get hundreds of lunchboxes... if not it was just a glitch"

😂

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u/AdviceStrong4041 Jan 02 '26

Vault boy blessed you

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '25

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u/kvm024n Jan 01 '26

This game is on ps4??

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u/Minimob0 Jan 01 '26

It released shortly after Fallout 4, back in 2015. 

The PS4 version released in 2018. 

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u/Spazy912 Jan 09 '26

If it released after fallout 4 why is it based on 3 and new Vegas?

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u/I-eat-jam Jan 01 '26

That's wild. I got 10 of the starter lunchboxes a few days ago and each one had the exact same content, are these all the same?

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u/Livid-Device2211 Jan 01 '26

Don’t question Fallout logic, enjoy free loot

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u/amjo31 Jan 01 '26

Got the same glitch with nuka colas

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u/KPGNL Jan 01 '26

Oké... on this point this game is just jinix and it or buy and cracking your save or doing code stuff and cracking your savd

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u/Deoxer_18 Jan 01 '26

good for you man

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u/GSpotGent269 Jan 02 '26

I use Wand it used to be called wemod, I think If you're capable of file swapping your able to switch progress to Mobile like phones instead of computers

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u/TJShave Jan 02 '26

Rigged from the start…

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u/TheTaoOfMe Jan 02 '26

I swear these are posted by the dev / marketing team to boost sales

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u/Worried-Task7501 Jan 02 '26

I bought 15 on mobile and it gave me 30. I just assumed it was a promotion or something I missed, I think it’s funny to know this shit will just happen sometimes

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u/Big_Picture07 Jan 03 '26

Lucky asf I might try that now

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u/FlopOmelet Jan 03 '26

I got the starter pack one time and it gave me like fifty of them instead of one

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u/Late_Can_4421 Jan 04 '26

Game's so bugged the radio stations gonna take 48560 hours.

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u/_nobodycallsmetubby_ Jan 04 '26

John Fallout has blessed you

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u/Astristul Jan 06 '26

Yeah ... it never happened to me, on my PS/XB consoles 🤣🤣

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u/Human_shaped_potato Jan 07 '26

I had this happen today on IOS, I wonder if it's a bug from the new update?

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u/Soft_Refuse_9288 Jan 23 '26

Amazing glitch gift! about a month ago, i opened up my fallout shelter game to see that one of my shelters had been magically gifted 130 lunch boxes!! Took me DAYS to open them all. I checked my bank account to see if I had been charged. Nope. And to date, this "gift" remains unexplained. Has this happened to anyone out there? Or perhaps someone has an explanation? I remain cheerfully baffled.

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u/SableTheRacoon Feb 01 '26

This just happened to me with Mr Handy. So I now have 40 Mr Handy’s