Here is everything you need to know about bending the wasteland to your will. Before the purists grab their pitchforks, let’s be honest: Fallout Shelter is a marathon. Sometimes you just want to build a cool-looking Vault without waiting 24 hours for a Nuka-Cola bottler to finish.

Enter the . Whether you’re on PC or mobile, these tools allow you to crack open your Vault’s mainframe and tweak the code.

But what if I told there was a way to skip the grind? Not to cheat death, but to control it.

Just remember: The struggle is part of the fun. If you max out everything on the first day, you’ll be bored by the second.

Use your new god-like powers wisely, Overseer. And for goodness sake, give that Level 1 dweller a weapon before you send him into the wasteland.

You open your Vault door, full of hope. But within an hour, your dwellers are dying of radiation poisoning, your reactors are on fire, and a pack of Radroaches is eating through your lunchroom. The grind from a bare-brick cave to a thriving underground metropolis is brutal.

We’ve all been there.