If there's one thing I've learned from Oxygen Not Included, it's that the plants go at the bottom where all the CO2 settles, the laboratory goes over the generators since they're not affected by temperature, and the barracks go at the top so that everyone can sleep in clean air. Rookie layout, this.

Going to regret putting the generators at the bottom if there's any sort of flooding. Ask Memorial Hospital in Louisiana.

It’s always funny to me when people are like “yah we’ll just grow food using hydroponics and grow lights powered by a diesel generator.”

Like, honey, you could store a decade of food in the volume of space needed to store enough fuel to run those grow lights through one harvest. Like, the conversion rate of fuel to electricity, to light, to biomass is … pathetically tiny.

No elaborate systems of traps? How are you gonna keep all the girls out then?

I’ve been trying to convince the wife to let me purchase one of those decommissioned missile silos and fix it up, with a house at the top. Assuming we could ever afford it of course.

It’s still a no, but not as hard a no as years back when I first suggested it.

I feel like you'd want the monitoring station not at the top level entrypoint where someone could break in then monitor your whole complex and the outside.

Feels like that should be closer to the panic/shelter room.

Also like someone else called out, you don't want your generators on the bottom floor. If you do something like that, you should dig another level below that's purely for drainage/runoff like a giant water reservoir. You can put a sump pump there to pump it all back up to the surface if you'd like, but you need some way to both collect and excrete water or drainage of some sort.

I don't see room for a water processing plant, so I think you're dealing only with pre-treated stored water in this system. That's the last thing that needs to be solved for. There needs to be some way to recover water if you want this to be a closed system.

Hell yeah

Radon gas emanation, lack of clean air and sunlight. Besides, concrete emits radioactive radiation.

A wooden hut in the forest near a river is always a better option

It's a great idea, but reinforcing the walls for that will cost a fortune (to prevent the ground from collapsing into the basement)

Those pool tables are so close together as to be essentially unplayable

Save your place, in a Vault-Tec™️ Vault! 👍

Real talk: living in a bunker would be so bad ass.

the first area has to be an expansive creepy liminal mall like area where an easily ignored kiosk hides the real entrance

To be fair, there is a saloon.

What's really depressing is that things like this will always be just a dream, meanwhile billionaires will never appreciate something like this or do it for the reasons we would.

What happens when you run out of fuel? Unless you plan on making the generators nuclear or something, I suppose you could still use renewables on the surface but then it definitely won't be a war bunker, just ecological/climate disaster bunker. I have a feeling war will take us out faster than ecological/climate catastrophe at this point.