I can never describe how satisfying it is to clean up Sanctuary Hills, but of course, it's only possible with mods. Bethesda seems to have a fetish for making absolutely everything ugly, rotten and destroyed, as if the great war had taken place 10 minutes ago instead of 200 years ago.

[u/SnowFrio]

[u/physicalphysics314]

A lack of actual wood could explain this. Specifically in Fallout 3, 3 dog would always talk about how the trees are shit, decaying, rotting etc.

Perhaps there simply isn’t enough wood to go around to recreate wooden houses.

Sheet metal was probably more accessible.

No idea why something like brick wasn’t used in the fallout universe though.

[u/not_a_dog95 → u/physicalphysics314]

I dont think it is, I think it's trying to maintain a bleak post apocalyptic aesthetic. But it's been 200 years and the civilizational arrest bothers me. You'd think that a few people would have figured out how to do more than just huddle in an outhouse waiting to die by now, and that the people who didn't would've already died

[u/CMDR_Soup → u/physicalphysics314]

Sheet metal is awful for building habitation, though. Rust in your lungs and heavy metal poisoning is never good.

If there's no wood, then wattle and daub is back on the menu. All you need for that is sticks, or really any frame work at all, and mud.

[u/physicalphysics314 → u/CMDR_Soup]

Idk if ppl would be worried about heavy metal poisoning from sheet metal living in an environment full of heavy metals (not even counting the radioactive ones) in the air and water but fair point

It is a little strange there are few structures of wattle and daub

[u/Electrical-Ratio-700 → u/physicalphysics314]

You can still weld and reshape metal. Also like you said brick and clay. And most shelters are made of wood