FALLOUT 4: PINEA. An immersive & realistic mod for collecting the resin resource in Fallout 4

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Vanilla Energy Immersion Problem

 

1. No Immersion: Generators run on seemingly infinite fuel. However, oil is not being extracted. So where is this coming from? This mod by pirRelli partially solves the issue: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/14193/
   
2. A little known fact amongst post apocalyptic community is that gasoline/diesel goes bad and must be re-purified after less than a year. “Regular gasoline has a shelf life of three to six months, while diesel can last up to a year before it begins to degrade. On the other hand, organic-based Ethanol can lose its combustibility in just one to three months due to oxidation and evaporation.” https://archive.is/Z0lQX
   
3. Solar panels also lose 20% of their efficiency every 25 years , so the ones in the game should be completely degraded unless by pure magic they were stored perfectly for hundreds of years.

 

Why Resin?

 

1. Resin can be readily harvested from trees in the environment.
   
2. The process is simple. It only requires basic materials: (1) A hatchet for removing the bark, (2) a bucket, (3) a nail, (4) a hammer, and (5) some cord to attach the bucket to the tree. One tree can provide multiple kilograms of fuel. Process https://www.wikihow.com/Tap-a-Pine-Tree
   
3. Resin can be distilled at the chemistry station to create Turpentine (already in Fallout) and Rosin. Turpentine can power generators as a drop-in replacement for gasoline: https://archive.is/wip/ULhko Rosin can be used to create medicines, great asphalt, plastics, adhesives (glues), soap (essential for hygiene), soda, soldering fluxes, and sealing wax.

 

Vision

 

A new faction, the Pineans, use pine trees as their fuel and they make all kinds of things from resin (plastics, fuel, asphalt for roads).

 

Currently, the highest producing trees in the world produce over 10 kilograms of resin per tree per year. The lore of this mod would be that pine trees were mutated from radiation and are producing a lot more resin thereby reducing the amount of trees needed to be tapped (100 would be enough for the faction).

 

Pineans wish to reforest the Wasteland, help them make it happen! Could be used in combination with many other mods.

 

 

 

What we need

 

1. Experienced modders
2. Brainstorming and ideas
3. Writers for possible missions

 

I would love to hear your thoughts! Looking forward to making this happen :laugh: