No reason to nuke the Forest? Are you kidding me? It's absolutely teeming with flora (it's a...forest) and has plenty of critters in most places for the other crafting materials. I appreciates people making Helvetia because I was able to gather some fluorescent flux materials that are much more common there than elsewhere, like around Mononagh (if I spelled that correctly!).
AFKers can go cry themselves to sleep, spinning in camera mode.