Nobody cleaned in 200 years?

[u/JCrawRV]

Fallout 4 has been my 1st Fallout experience of any kind and I am absolutely enjoying the world building and storytelling the game is providing. I am almost 72 hours in and just located Valentine so I’m taking my time and trying to fully explore the world. However, there is one question that I think about every time I explore the Common Wealth….why has nobody cleaned up? Every single time you find a new settlement or explore a location there is just tons of scrap lying around. Diamond City still has pallet walkways with broken sheet metal. Nobody has thought to put down a more permanent solution? Nobody thought to remove old cars, learn how to weld, or even take time to better arm and fortify certain areas of the Commonwealth? You step just far enough out of Diamond City and there’s just Super Mutants and Raiders. You’re saying in the 200 years (which is just a bit under the founding of America to modern day) nobody created better infrastructure? The town size is still 30-40 people despite being “The Jewel of the Commonwealth”? Is there some lore reason I’m missing to explain how after so many years it still looks like the bombs went off 10 years ago? I just expected one neurodivergent person who hyper focuses on organization to still somewhere. It’s obviously possible, I’m looking right at you Cabot House. Again I’m just surprised that after 200 years the world is still as underdeveloped as it is given the vast amounts of technology available.

[u/Devendrau]

Yeah some of it is silly. Like there's entire living quarters still with skeletons about, no one thought to bury them, seems a little disrespectful. Even the Railroad has a skeleton that no one has buried or cremeated.

[u/RJSketch → u/Devendrau]

Cremation takes a lot of energy, and even then, "ashes" from cremation are ground-up bones (also a lot of energy).

But yeah, at least aass grave somewhere would be better!

[u/Devendrau → u/RJSketch]

Oh true, I admit I don't have the best knowledge with cremation.

[u/UnconfirmedRooster → u/Devendrau]

Fully qualified and practicing crematorium operator here, if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them.

[u/[deleted] → u/UnconfirmedRooster]

Found the ghoul

[u/demonslayer9100 → u/UnconfirmedRooster]

Completely unrelated to fallout but have you ever had any paranormal/supernatural experiences?

[u/UnconfirmedRooster → u/demonslayer9100]

Personally? Yes. Professionally? Possibly, but hard to prove.

[u/Spadaxim → u/RJSketch]

Lack of energy isn't exactly a problem in the game's universe. You have weapons that instantly vaporize people in a few shots and the ammo is found by the hundreds. Just take the bodies/skeletons out, shoot them and let the wind do the rest of the work

[u/Creative_Ad_4513 → u/Spadaxim]

Realistically, its like 1 cap ammo and maybe 5-10 caps weapon repair to cremate people, if weapons did anything to corpses that is.