Set Out Link Settlement For Free

To create a supply line, use the workshop in one of the settlements, highlight a settler and press [Q] (or RB/R1 on XBOX/PS4) to display a list of owned settlements. Select the settlement to which the player character wants to link the current settlement.

Spectacle Island comes with the game's largest building area and, apparently, its highest built limit, meaning it's one of the most versatile locations going.

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!

There are 37 unlockable settlements total with 30 in the base game, one in Automatron, four in Far Harbor, one in Vault-Tec Workshop and one in Nuka-World. Most are obtained by completing an objective or killing hostiles/residents in the area then opening the workshop.

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!

I'd say Hangman's Alley is the most annoying. At least if you're trying to have a high population. Then again I haven't found all 30 settlements yet. Hangman's Alley is very difficult to support settlers in.

Check. I think that Abernathy Farm is the best place for big builds, because there is plenty of space and plenty of height. Even if you just want it to be a normal settlement with no amazing builds, that's okay. The infrastructure is ready and once you acquire it there is little work to be done.

It helps, once you have settlements you can connect them with trade routes, this lets you store stuff in the workbenches that then becomes available at other settlements. You can also send out scavengers to collect junk. They're well worth having, plus you need somewhere to store inactive companions and power armour.

You need the Local Leader perk. Once you have it, go into build mode at one of the settlements you would like to link up and assign one of the settlers to run a supply line from there to the other settlement.