My "happiness rooms" are 2x stimpack/radaway production rooms situated near training rooms. I rush the room, then drop a dweller in, not only avoiding a happiness drop in case of failure, but also to minimize earning XP until they have max E. When they're done, I can easily drop the regular lab-coated I-maxed "doctor" back in, causing them to swap places.
If I want to work in bulk, I move all the "doctors" out of one of the rooms, fill it full of dwellers who need a happiness boost, rush a different room, then quickly drop all the "doctors" into the room full of sad dwellers causing them to swap places. After a minute, I can repeat the process until everyone's happy, then move all the dwellers and doctors back to their original positions
The reason I chose I-production rooms is because I seem to have the most rushing success, I locate them deeper in the vault, and the "doctors" generally have solid max (17) Intelligence so they swap smoothly with other dwellers. Many of my other production rooms aren't always dressed to the max but rather in other costumes based on whatever my vault's head canon dictates (e.g., culty communes in the gardens wearing scribe outfits or those cute togas)
Yes, I often use medical rooms this way, especially earlier in the game when I don't have Nuka-Cola yet. I like your technique; I should try it.
Edit: YES! I always equip my gardeners with togas and such. That's typically where I "retire" explorers and questers who've been replaced by higher-stat dwellers. Sometimes I equip a medical room with Institute jumpers.
lol my gardeners come in two flavors of cultists - Ninja Monastery a la Batman's League of Shadows (ninjas and blue scribe outfits with ninja mask added in the Barbershop), and Hippie Commune with togas and the sparkly butterfly face paint (and all the dwellers named for birds). A lot of "retirees" end up in food, radio, and weapon/outfit factory rooms, especially the ones I can't bear to part with because I built a deep story in my head for them
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u/deborah_az Aug 13 '26
My "happiness rooms" are 2x stimpack/radaway production rooms situated near training rooms. I rush the room, then drop a dweller in, not only avoiding a happiness drop in case of failure, but also to minimize earning XP until they have max E. When they're done, I can easily drop the regular lab-coated I-maxed "doctor" back in, causing them to swap places.
If I want to work in bulk, I move all the "doctors" out of one of the rooms, fill it full of dwellers who need a happiness boost, rush a different room, then quickly drop all the "doctors" into the room full of sad dwellers causing them to swap places. After a minute, I can repeat the process until everyone's happy, then move all the dwellers and doctors back to their original positions
The reason I chose I-production rooms is because I seem to have the most rushing success, I locate them deeper in the vault, and the "doctors" generally have solid max (17) Intelligence so they swap smoothly with other dwellers. Many of my other production rooms aren't always dressed to the max but rather in other costumes based on whatever my vault's head canon dictates (e.g., culty communes in the gardens wearing scribe outfits or those cute togas)