Remove all (most) trees from world

[Gruffydd]

Seasons do exist in-game... sort of.

Head over to Diamond City Market when the in-game calendar is exactly 10/31 or 12/25 and take a look around.

 

Yet, no matter what time of year it is, none of the trees have leaves on them, and the ground is covered with them. Especially in your settlements, where despite being able to do all sorts of random tasks, not one of the settlers has figured out how to use a rake, broom, and trash can.

 

When it comes down to it, foliage in general and trees specifically make no sense at all. Flowers grow, crops grow, shrubbery grows, and trees... mysteriously shed their leaves a few days before you enter any given area, long enough for the leaves to be piled on the ground, but not decomposed into slimy compost.

 

Personally, having seen what areas that were heavily bombed (either nuclear or firebombing) are like a few decades later, and seeing what areas that had massive radiation exposure are like a few decades later, I have no doubt at all that *were this the real world* there would be lush vegetation, including trees, pretty much everywhere that wasn't cauterized by the bomb (meaning the center of the Glowing Sea), and that even the edges of that would be seeing some encroachment.

But then, the explanation for other things that don't exist without mods is lacking, too, if you try to apply real-world logic. Tinker Tom can make ballistic weave clothing, but nobody can figure out how to make a freaking bedsheet. You can turn a couple of pencils, a tin can, a microscope, and a board game into a zap gun, but nobody can make a decent roof. Settlements are loaded down with high-tech turrets, but nobody can figure out how to poke a hole through a wall so that you can run wiring through from one side to the other. Water pumps that convert water from irradiated swamp into enough purified water to supply an entire settlement are easy to make, but nobody can make a simple toilet.

 

I guess basically what I'm saying is, when it comes to the Fallout universe, being able to definitively say "it should be like THIS" is pretty much impossible, as logic left the building a long, long time ago.

[Ethreon]

We only have evidence of one nuclear warhead detonated on top of Boston (at least as far as I know). One nuke is not enough to destroy the trees completely, or nature. IT will definitely grow back and and conquer the city same as anywhere where man abandoned his structures.

[Ansler]

We only have evidence of one nuclear warhead detonated on top of Boston (at least as far as I know). One nuke is not enough to destroy the trees completely, or nature. IT will definitely grow back and and conquer the city same as anywhere where man abandoned his structures.

 

Well there was one large nuke (Glowing Sea Nuke) but throughout the main city I've encountered at least two smaller irradiated craters (that I haven't actually dived into, cause radiation) That could be the result of smaller bombs.

[seekingthesun]

In real life, during the cold war, the US took some high altitude samples and found that the USSR was experimenting with nukes with a smattering of exotic isotopes. The US thought that the USSR was taking partially depleted fuel rods, out, exposing them , and putting them into nukes, just after they cooled and were centrifuged from a molten state. So, since they were doing them, the US had to do it. So the US built special facilities to make these bombs which had to be 100% robotic. They finally got enough and they tested a bomb, above ground in Southern Nevada. The fallout was so bad that it destroyed all the photofilm as far away as Rochester New York.