Settlements with open water access can provide that resource to the others so you do not have to spend craft materials to build water purification systems and pumps everywhere. Provide resources from one settlement to another that is lacking it and sharing workshop inventory. It can also help you get rid of settlers you don’t want. You have to haul it from another settlement that might be a dedicated farming community. That might mean that you do not have enough food in that settlement. You might want to have one settlement entirely dedicated to trade and all your settlers are busy tending to their shops. This means that if you have a surplus of one crafting material (back in Sanctuary for example), but you want to build stuff in a new settlement with nothing in its workshop inventory and you have a supply line going, you will be able to use resources stored in Sanctuary. First of all, settlements that are linked via supply lines share their workshop inventory. There are many reasons why you would want to establish supply routes. We have some more guides about problems with settlements: No income will come out of establishing supply lines. There is no such thing as a trade route in the game. Lets just get one thing out of the way first – supply lines are not trade routes. Once you go through the process it is quiet easy, but at first it may seem confusing because the interface doesn’t clearly show how to do these things. One of the questions we often get is how to start supply/trade routes between settlements and consequently how do you move settlers between your settlements in Fallout 4.

Sim settlements assign leader