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Empty settlements grow fastest so if you want lots of people leave a few settlements empty of people (but with food water and defense) with a recruit beacon and go by every few days and tell everyone to move to your other settlements.

The settler needs is easiest to see with the settlement hud (full bars) or even the vanilla figures at the top of the screen (nothing in red). Spawning settlers can be done with a console command 'player. placeatme 00020593 x' (x being number of settlers required), then assign them using the workshop move command.

Max population is 10+Charisma, also you need 1 food per settler, and 1 water per food produced+ number of settlers, currently you don't have enough water to permit any additional settlers, I would suggest removing a settler from food production. The higher your charisma, the more settlers you get.

With the Local Leader perk, just open the workshop, highlight a settler, and click the supply line button. Then, choose what settlement you want them to supply and boom, the supply line is created.

If you highlight over one of your settlers, you should see a "Supply Line" button option. Once you click that button, you'll get to choose which settlement to send that settler to. And that's basically all you have to do!

The 30+ settlers requirement is either for all settlers total across all settlements or for the ones linked with a supply route. So basically you just need to get a second settlement going.

To have settlers come to your settlement, you will need to make sure you have enough food, water, beds, and defenses. You also need to make sure that you have the Recruitment Radio Beacon set up in each settlement. In addition, the number of settlers maxes out based on your Charisma.

Connect two settlements, create a supply line. Haul your loot from settlement X to the Master Workbench, force this action by selecting the "refresh" bar in your resource station. Deselect the current supply line and connect settlement Y as a supply line.