The story behind Vault 76 was already decided years before the MMO and you could find it in Fallout 3

The authors behind the Fallout series are careful when it comes to the story. Already 10 years before the release of the MMO Fallout 76, you could find the story about the Vault in Fallout 3.

What story was there to find? The story of Fallout 76 begins in Vault 76, which opens on “Reclamation Day”. The day when people are supposed to take back the Earth. The day takes place 25 years after the bombs fell and is the start of Fallout 76. However, the idea for the Vault was established much earlier.

Already 10 years prior, you could read in Fallout 3 what to expect in Fallout 76.

Fallout 76 received a new update only in March; here you can see the trailer for it:

Terminal in the Citadel reveals information about the Vaults

How do you access the information? In Fallout 3, there is a terminal that reveals all sorts of information about the Vaults.

The game, which was released in 2008, has a terminal located in the Citadel. There, you can find information about various Vaults in Washington D.C. and the surrounding area. Vault 76 is not only casually mentioned; the terminal even describes the history of the bunker.

The X user @KERR0N made this discovery and shared the entry in the terminal on X:

What does the entry say? The entry states that Vault 76 is one of the 17 “Control Vaults”. The Vault is supposed to function just like the advertising from Vault-Tec and meet the expectations of its inhabitants.

It is supposed to open after 20 years, pushing the inhabitants back into the open world to see how they fare compared to other Vaults.

This is also how Fallout 76 begins, which takes place years before the events of the other Fallout games.

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Does the entry match Fallout 76? Almost! The entry in Fallout 8 almost completely matches, only one detail is different. In Fallout 76, the Vault opens after 25 years, not after 20 years.

Why this is the case and whether there is an explanation for the 5-year delay is not described.

In Vault 76, there were certainly no experiments like in other Vaults. Especially Vault 106 is something else: Fallout has a Vault where everyone is constantly high – But it goes really wrong