

I have used all of the above the get Sanctuary hills up to well over 40 settlers. The main reason why you might want to assign followers to shops and explicitly assign them beds is because that makes it easier to find them whenever you fast travel in. Same for Jezebel, she is also only useful for a farming assignment. You can then assign them to farming, but don't assign them to shops as they will bever respond with a barter dialogue option.

When dismissing the followers you can always send them to any settlement t of your choosing, even if it is full. Note: you need beds/food/water to match your population even if some are Automatrons.ģ) Send recruitable followers to a settlement. Because of the firepower these pack, it will keep effectively the entire Commonwealth pacified because no matter where the raiders spawn, there is bound to be at least a few of your Sentrybot terminator provisioners in perception range to annihilate them before they know what hit them.

I max out settlements with humans by poaching, then build maxed out Sentrybots (hydraulic frame armor, heaviest weapons, Tesla coils, Assaultron laser heads) and assign them as Provisioner's on trade routes to every other available settlement. Ideally do this once your settlement is maxed out in humans at 21. By doing this you can exceed the settler limit arbitrarily as you can always build more. Go to other settlements, go into construction mode, and select "Move" in a settler to move them to the settlement you are trying to max out.Ģ) Build Automatrons (DLC needed). Maximum number of settlers per settlement is 10 + charisma (max 11, 10 natural plus bobblehead).ġ) Poach.
