I gave that a shot and every 24 hrs I'd get several updates from multiple settlements. By the end I got a large spam of them and Abernathy finally had enough beds for everyone (and the total population went up to 10).What happens when you sleep for 7 days in a bed at the settlement? I'm wondering if you're not just hitting a crappy run of RNG.
If the settler count goes up when you do that, even by 1, it's working.
Also, settlement happiness has an impact on recruiting, if it's below I think 60, it goes from being a positive or neutral to a negative modifier so that would be another thing I'd check.
If happiness is a factor, the quickest way to get it back up is to just throw booze at the problem until it goes away (wish this worked in real life).
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