The Smallest Creatures in Fallout

[@iziahdelorme8698]

I think the lack of mutations adds fuel to the cat vault theory

[@kultur-vultur]

My dad farmed chickens and I seen plenty with extra legs and wings they were still birds, I assure you all the amount of limbs does not affect taxonomy. I also learned on the farm that chickens are also less discriminate than pigs about what they eat.

[@TheFreeBass]

Lost their feathers & ability to fly... Probably the best after effect of nuclear war. I know I hate when a flock of chickens fly over & shit on everything.

[@stormcry8202]

Mirelurk hatchlings are my least favorite small critter in Fallout.

[@LiterallyAna]

They're kind of cute imo

[@user-dq9pq8uv4e]

Dude. I was playing last night, and I was gonna frag the nest. One of them hit me, while I had the 'nade in hand. It made me end up dropping it. Having a crippled leg, trying to dance around to get those damn things in the target zone, REALLY sucked! 🤣🤣

[@stormcry8202]

@@user-dq9pq8uv4e I feel ya. I play mostly survival or Very Hard, and those kinda of fumbles are the worst. Am I right in that they ALWAYS come at the worst possible time too. Like you haven't saved in an hour because you have been so into the zone. And you've been "wakin' bakin'" all day :)

[@TheRetroShepherd]

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[@pacifictime7496]

Every time I heard (rad) in front of any animal , I couldn't help but picture them with sunglasses and totally chill.

[@LiterallyAna]

Rad 😎

[@wayneigoe6722]

Not important, but as a neat fun fact, a group of scorpions is called a cyclone. Scorpions are fiercely loyal to their cyclone, and when a member of their group is attacked or threatened, it secretes a pheremone that signals all other members of the cyclone come to their aid and attack whatever it is that's attacking or threatening them, and they don't stop attacking until the threat is dead.

[@brockschannel3927]

I wish that other birds appeared in fallout.

[@dickdastardly4236]

Three aren't enough?

[@brockschannel3927]

@@dickdastardly4236 no.

[@dot2562]

theres an irish bird in fo4

[@concludedhail40]

*sees a giant vulture fly towards the mountains* Yeah I’m good with the little birds we know of. I don’t think we need more giant flying creatures appearing.

[@bullpupgaming708]

birds aren't real they are drones lol just look at the Institute Crows that are actually synths

[@StevetheWizard2591]

Fun Fact: There are "small" ants in Fallout 3. The Shalebridge Tunnels house a bunch of smaller, friendly ants that are fighting against a bunch of larger, invasive ants (labeled in the game as "Invader Ant") that have taken up residence in the Shalebridge Hill. You can help these ants by giving them a Stimpak and killing off the Invader Ant colony, and in return, you'll get access to a respawning source of Ant Nectar.

[@gemgemjibabaloo]

Really disappointing you didn't include Wind Brahmin on this list 😔

[@babsstarchaser]

Justice for wind brahmin

[@venator-fb7yy]

Opossums got screwed over bad from radiation, at least they're not getting pancaked by cars now.😜

[@user-dq9pq8uv4e]

Possums got screwed over by nature, just in general. IRL their eyesight is _terrible_ and they're very near sighted. Add in that they are incredibly _slow_ . And that they carry their young on their backs. Which means that this slow moving, half blind animal, has babies on board, when that car comes barreling along. It is, however, both extremely cool, and kind of creepy... to see them sleeping upside down, hanging from their tales. I saw one doing this from a fence gate once.

[@venator-fb7yy]

@@user-dq9pq8uv4e Yeah, once one ran in front of my car even though it saw me coming! I personally feel it actually wanted to die. At least they are better off than other animals that somehow aren't extinct.

[@user-dq9pq8uv4e]

@@venator-fb7yy Squirrels do that too! About running in front of cars. I honestly can't argue with what you said about it wanting to die. Just based on squirrels, I think those nutters have a suicidal tendency wired into their brain!

[@insederec]

​@@user-dq9pq8uv4e babies can hang from their tails, but likely won't unless posed by people. Adults weigh too much and shouldn't be picked up by their tail or it could hurt them

[@insederec]

​@@venator-fb7yy 70 million years with minimal change worked out pretty good for them

[@inductivegrunt94]

Out of all the creatures on this list, minus cats, I'd rather encounter the Beavers. And I do think Frogs bathed in Nuka Cola Quantum in order to get that blue glow they have.

[@adarkerstormishere]

@19:26 Of course they have all their feathers; they're artificial. Or "synth" if you want to use the canonical term. The crows in F4 are basically mobile surveillance systems for the Institute, inconspicuously keeping an eye on major settlements, trade routes, supermutant clan movement, radiation hotspots likely to produce more feral ghouls, etc. I don't think there's anything written about whether the seagulls are also Institute spies, but they act pretty similarly, so I think they are.

[@user-dq9pq8uv4e]

It's kind of... I dunno if it's cool, or it's corny... maybe both... that Bethesda put this roll on birds. There's all kinds of real world legends, myths, superstitions, about Crows and Blackbirds being the devil's eyes and ears. Or the servants of witches, as spies and messengers. Or even as servants of the god Odin.

[@mattguy1773]

Rad-Bacteria is probably a thing

[@ManD0wn]

The common cold that wastelanders deal with could probably take out half the irl planet

[@incredibleflameboy]

​They technically already do. There are a few unique bacteria around pripyat/Chernobyl. ​@@ManD0wnthis might seem like nitpick but it's not because you're right about wasteland disease being hardcore but colds and flu are viruses. Arguably if it wasn't for the reduced population and each location being reasonably far from each other our modern day diseases could wipe out the remainder of humanity. Edit: bare in mind that humans seem to come up against an unseen virus with the ability to wipe out huge swathes of the population roughly every 100 years it's surprising that the blue flu is the only major disease mentioned in fallout.

[@Chrono-and-Co]

Radteria

[@daisyprayers]

I will always be sad we didn’t get Wasteland Workshop cages to get radrats, rad rabbits and rad chickens for our settlements in Fallout 4 :(

[@ryelor123]

It would be extremely lucrative for media companies to flip out and create a fake controversy so they could make money.

[@DarthEngi]

Oh come on no stripe from old world blues

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

Love the Mr. House implicit reference in the cat entry.

[@jeremyburks7882]

Aren't there even smaller versions of Mantis in New Vegas? Smaller than Nymphs. I remember walking over some and not even seeing them.

[@catfish552]

I believe they spawn if you destroy a pile of mantis eggs. And yes, they're small enough that they can be killed simply by stepping on them.

[@user-dq9pq8uv4e]

2:20 Where are there rats in Fallout *4* ? Are they in a DLC? I've never seen one in the base game. Where? Where they at? I wanna see them!

[@daisyprayers]

They’re found in Nuka World :)

[@user-dq9pq8uv4e]

@@daisyprayers Thank you so much Daisy! Much appreciated! I want to see them in the game now, since I did not know that they were in there!

[@naza1554]

Honorable mention to Stripes

[@vexile1239]

Fun fact: Australia's medical system has not diagnosed anyone with lyme disease as it is not recognised as a thing and it's existence is denied, sufferers can only be diagnosed overseas but jumping through the hoops the government and medical system has put into place makes it nearly impossible to receive needed medical attention for it

[@ExposureGreen]

This wasn’t very fun

[@harrybuhse8622]

You're an idiot

[@chadharger9323]

Even in the US it's a problem. One person I know got a tick. She went to get tested just to sure. Test said negative. . .guess what happened two days later.

[@Tatwinus]

Thats horrible considering treatment is just general antibiotics. The EU considers it one of the biggest dangers to its citizens health.

[@vexile1239]

@@chadharger9323 in Australia they refuse to even test for it, people have to go overseas to get a test just to make sure that it is their red liquid being tested and not some other creature's

[@TheMWNetwork]

Rad Chickens sounds like a cut name for "the Tunnel Snakes" group.

[@user-rd7px9hp6n]

The tiny Red Death I wanted to take it home as a pet, Fallout4 Far Harbor. I really wanted it wandering around my home in Diamond City. It was so cute.

[@georgeshipleyiv7283]

Relatable

[@Wroobel13]

Crows are syths!

[@StacieMMeier]

Correct, one of the shocking secrets in Fallout 4 are they are spies for the Institute, have met players with well over 1K hours who never discovered it. You learn of this from a computer in the Institute.

[@user-dq9pq8uv4e]

@@StacieMMeier If you know how to, you can crack open the game files to view the image files used for those video screens. And yeah... the camera angle on them proves that they're from a higher up angle. Such as a bird's perch.

[@jamesd4223]

I always wished this was one of those things that stayed just a theory. The fact that they have these watchers as long distance spy gear that they basically do nothing with only further makes The Institute look like a mess of faction(lore wise and from a game design standpoint).

[@ineptitude]

One of n_orte’s criteria is “a player has to be able to kill it” Still not sure if Fallout Tactics’s Boom Bug counts…

[@mtraa9gaming450]

I love the princess pride reference 2:29

[@biostemm]

I feel bad for the squirrels around the Whitespring and Helvetia, WV, with their tiny hairless bodies - poor guys!

[@davidcollinsjr4288]

Ooh, a 6 legged possum? Pretty sure thats just a wompus cat! 4 legs for walkin', 2 for fightin'!

[@chadharger9323]

Cats don't mutate or whatever because they are PURRfect! One complaint I have about giant insects and scorpions is that they are impossible. Earth's gravity would work against them. Without a skeleton anything that is large as what is shown in Fallout would collapse in on itself or be very limited in mobility. Even natural evolution would not permit such growth because Earth's gravity would work against the insects. That is why Chazadors are more believable as a giant insect. They were expermented on and I believe shot up with FEV. This let the creature evolve quickly and to the point that it won't be affected by Earth's gravity.

[@StacieMMeier]

Not true, Insects were once very large on Earth. And some ants that were tiny during the Dinosaurs are bigger (You know them today as Carpenter Ants). We dont know why insects got smaller over era's. Some say gravity played a part, but gravity hasnt changed much on Earth. Climates, is one, that some claim has caused it. But climates change on Earth all the time over period's in Earth's history. Oxygen levels, Oxygen levels change on Earth all the time. IN the time before Dinosaurs it was very high, we know this because Earth has a natural oxygen level buffer, it is called fire. Great fires were taking place all the time and still does. Only Human's now made it worse by stopping many. But, higher oxygen levels would have allowed for much larger creatures. While the debate continue, many flying insects were the size of birds and even much larger at one time. Why this happen is debated and many scientists disagree on the subject. But gravity wouldnt stop them from getting larger, history and fossil records show this. Remember also, that insects that didnt fly also were large at one time... EDIT: One other theory I forgot why Insects got much smaller. Birds. Birds didnt exist in the period of the very large flying insects. But birds (Those that came from Dinosaurs did exist up to the point of the meteor hit that helped destroy the Dinosaurs. By this time Mammals and Birds were competing with few surviving Dinosaurs (They were going extinct before the meteor, it just helped make it faster) and they were faster and some of both were able to fly (Both birds and some limited mammals), I always thought that because of this insects were forced to be faster and smaller to survive. However, birds are limtied in fallout universe and thus some of the insects wouldnt need this anymore. So, they got much bigger again. But it is theory, like the rest, nobody is certain why they became smaller.

[@user-dq9pq8uv4e]

Chad, you make a really good point. I'm gonna include an exclusion to what you're talking about tho. Which is the roaches. They do not have a hardened shell. It's rather pliable, and flexes, gives, and flattens out allowing them to get into some extremely small spaces if they decide to crawl into such a space. Off topic, but a very, very sick thing about roaches is that it takes them 2 weeks or more to starve. And if you cut the head off of one, far enough down the body, it will stay alive, until it starves. 🤢

[@chadharger9323]

@@user-dq9pq8uv4e Now I got an idea for something that may be worse than a centaur or Master. A bunch of radroaches grouped together and gassed with with undiluted FEV. Mutant sized in height(getting around the gravity problem) with a whole bunch of radroach heads all over its body. Normally it crawls along the ground like a regular roach. But if all the heads are destroyed it can stand up meaning round two. After all the heads are destroyed the body moves on its own and keeps walking against the first obstacle it reaches like a wall. Think it can be put out of its misery? Nope! This is FEV after all plus the 'roaches can survive anything' trope. The body is unkillable by any FO weapons. The body will continue for a couple of weeks before it finally shuts down and dies.

[@user-dq9pq8uv4e]

@@chadharger9323 That is awesome! Creative as all hell! 👍 Maybe, mayyyybe... even give it a few extra torsos linked together, for a psuedo centipede effect. Yikes. That is one hell of an awesome idea, but I wouldn't play it! I *like* being able to sleep after gaming without nightmares! 🤣

[@ryelor123]

I think the real issue is lower oxygen levels in the atmosphere. Massive insects could exist but their respiratory systems are so crappy that they need a much higher oxygen concentration to survive. That's just the major limitation with having an exoskeleton and lacking a true circulatory system. Humongous lobsters and clams exist.

[@codycarabotta5621]

Im not great with birds and stuff either, but Crows and Ravens are two different birds. Sometimes thought to be the same bird but with different names. If I remember Crows are a bit bigger than Ravens, among some other distinctions. Both are highly intelligent, and vocalize with similar but still slightly different sounds. The devs may (likely) have intentionally named them Ravens and Crows, and I cant help but think perhaps all Crows in Fallout 4 and maybe as a whole are just synth Watchers but thats just speculation in my head. Ravens are interesting because if they are natural birds, its curious how they did not seem to mutate much, whereas the Crow which may all be synthetic creations often show signs of mutation and such similar to the Radgulls. Its very interesting.

[@ryelor123]

Ok, why did the people before the war keep discarding perfectly good tires with all the tread still left on them? What a wasteful society.

[@htdoc]

I misread the title as the “smartest creatures in Fallout”. Maybe that could be the next video?

[@Patches3018]

most all of them would just be from fallout 2 😭

[@archerthecreeperkiller636]

hell yeah a new Norte video!

[@hermos3602]

So it seems thst cats, ravens, crows, and some dog breeds like German shepherds are the only animals (For now) that haven't been altered by radiation.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

Intelligent Deathclaw. And Snuffles.

[@frogfriend34]

I think the opossums are really cute even with three heads

[@jacoblaitila7941]

Thank you so much norte! I love your videos, you give such a good explanation for everything and you make the greatest connections to all the little references, which is what i love so much about fallout. You're the best!

[@faintedtreecko]

What? Rodents of unusual sizes? I don’t believe they exist

[@radiofreedom947]

Fallout 4 has seagulls too, but they might be synths.

[@LunasOnlyLover]

The bark scorpion could have been so much more intimidating but they are just a joke in vegas

[@tvsavery666]

They're sort of formidable at low levels. I know Bark Scorpions irl are small scorpions but if they made bigger variants in the Mojave, while keeping their speed, they'd be better. If I recall a mod adding cloaked scorpions, adding them to even populated city areas like Freeside, that was a pretty fun mod.

[@the_thicc_german_2277]

I think he forgot to mention the foxes in fo76. Or are they too big to make the list?

[@strainedOS]

I always look forward to a new uplaod from you, thank you so much for creating this content!!!

[@eggchucker1]

I legitimately have no memory of rad rats in fallout 4

[@jordyDarko613]

Chickens dont fly with feathers. Turkeys cant fly either but that has nothing to do with fallout.

[@GunFuiChi]

Domesticated and feral turkeys can't fly cause we bred the ability out of them like with chickens. True wild turkeys are capable of flight, with top speeds of about 55mph.

[@jordyDarko613]

@GunFuiChi my bad I didn't realize that. I live in a rural area with dozens of wild turkeys. At my old house I literally saw them every morning and have never seen one take flight. So I assumed they couldnt

[@GunFuiChi]

@jordyDarko613 that's fair, I only know cause I remembered a story from the chicken soup for the pet lover's soul that I read many years ago. It described how nervous the researchers were cause the ability to fly was basically the only way to distinguish between wild and ferals back in the day, and while they can fly, they definitely prefer to be grounded.

[@jordyDarko613]

@@GunFuiChi well thanks always good to learn something new

[@user-dq9pq8uv4e]

@@GunFuiChi We raised chickens on our farm. This is not to argue, but it kinda depends on the breed, of chickens. Some chicken breeds do have a very limited amount of flight. Tho it's much more akin to a "jet assisted long leap". We had a rooster that could throw himself about 5 or 6 feet with that tactic. With a height of about 2-3 (sorry typo) feet.

[@XerouEffect13]

that sounds like something a synth would say...

[@VD_the_GodKing]

No owellet? They only spawn in a couple places but you can eliminate them and make owl nuggets

[@eliteSTEEL27]

Because the creature was in a different place and it had been a little more aggressive and rare and so then the creature had to go or something like that. I think the other one is a little different but the one that was in the same spot was the separate..

[@ye4thorn]

I feel like the video is missing Mole Rats Mongrels Cave Crickets Wolves

[@RH_Chillin]

This is legitimately one of the only times i have seen fallout 76 gameplay outside of launch.... Those shooting and grenade throwing mechanics look.... off

[@DeadKingV]

Who would win liberty prime or the massive robo scorpion at big mountain

[@LunasOnlyLover]

Easily liberty prime

[@jordyDarko613]

I say robo scorpion 😅

[@MrVoyeurific]

Does the scorpion get the first shot

[@jordyDarko613]

If it did and aimed for primes knees I think it could cripple it 🤔

[@MrVoyeurific]

@@jordyDarko613 well it’s melee is not the issue

[@funkyfreshwilliam2707]

where is the Red Death HOW COULD YOU MISS THE MISS THE MOST POWERFUL BEING IN FALLOUT HISTORY anyways good video i love me some silly little critters!

[@aaronloossonaaronloosjr.8630]

I haven't watched the whole video and I'm just gonna guess that it's the baby mantis

[@jonathanchild7025]

My favorite is the rad rat

[@austinstackhouse9759]

What about the meierlurk hatchlings?

[@matthewcopley7679]

Not going to lie, i expected the House Cat to have changed internally, Like less lovecraft, more talking scheming trickster that can really fk you up if it wanted to, but why bother 🙄 just meow, curl around feet and get food, then call your ownet a piece of 💩 when they are out of range

[@kultur-vultur]

Is it me or do the crows look better in New Vegas?

[@laernulienlaernulienlaernu8953]

Radroache are strange coz some are tiny bit some are huge.

[@M0053_M4N]

Blood worms from nuka world?

[@Nemmy25]

if you can’t actively kill them in game it wouldn’t qualify for this list

[@Forewarned76]

Possums eat ticks sooo...

[@Whootzie]

It's just like a lot of Bees

[@villings]

pigsqueak _!!_

[@incredibleflameboy]

There are rad rats in FO4?

[@dcross6360]

Fun video

[@epplonia]

Nice! 30sec mark, view #2.

[@theodorekaczynski8147]

4:30 eat ze bugs

[@dot2562]

crickets ？

[@jaktucker777]

Flying creatures dont even fly. They just hover at the same height all the time. Joke engine

[@toastysalmen4642]

rad roaches are weird they seem to be a mix of German and American cockroaches. don't know if it's intentional or just cause people don't know there's a difference

[@user-dq9pq8uv4e]

I don't know about German roaches. But I do know that the ones we have here in this area of the US don't have those banded midsections like they do in the game.

[@goldy7236]

wait what, targeting vats in fallouts 76 can hit the "hands" of the bees? good job bethesda

[@LiterallyAna]

No lol that was a radstag behind a tree

[@goldy7236]

@@LiterallyAnaoh, you are right

[@cicerothenekoknightplaysall]

Smol

[@ryelor123]

I think the game designers just got lazy. Its been 200 years before the war yet everything looks like the first litters after a radiation event. I'm assuming winter quit existing in the fallout games because most of those animals would be easily killed off by low temperatures. Even the opossums wouldn't last long since the surface area of their bodies just increased drastically while their mass barely did. If they're going to have mutations, it should be a random thing. I'm sure AI will make that much easier by making it possible to make hundreds of different models of the same base creature easily instead of just having 1 model for each animal. UV radiation would kill off most of those animals. Fur and feathers don't just exist for looks or to retain body heat. Not only all that, but most of the animals would be in rural areas that wouldn't get nuked so it makes no sense that they'd mutate. People need to understand at least a basic level of biology before working for game companies since this just looks dumb.

[@MommyMinty]

𓆏 The Chances of dying from a Frog is low but never zero. 𓆏