This is seriously the worst achievement in gaming. Building power, defenses, food, and recruiting more settlers should increase the happiness of your settlement. Not standing there idle for hours. This is the second day in a row where I've left my Xbox on and tried to get this achievement. My happiness is now capped 95 and it won't go up. Bethesda, fix this [censored]. No one wants to stand idle in their settlement for real life hours on end. It makes no sense. Why does that increase the happiness and why does leaving your settlement for a couple minutes decrease it? Is this achievement specifically made just to piss people off? I'm currently trying the one settler method at Red Rocket Truck Stop. I have her assigned to a bar and I've tried everything to get it go up, but it's stuck at 95. And when I left and recruited another person and assigned them to a clinic, the bar began going down. I would usually just say "[censored] it" to a stupid achievement like this, but it's literally the last one I need. Anyone else getting pissed off at this [censored]? I know I can't be the only one. The design of this whole achievement if pointless. Who wants to sit in their settlement for several real life hours? If you have enough defenses, food, power, and enough settlers it should be constantly going up without you having to be there. End of story. Fix this, Bethesda.

I agree, this achievement needs to be tweaked abit so it makes sense.

Honestly I haven't even tried to get the achievement since I've never cared enough about them to specifically do something to get one.

I agree entirely with the OP.

And when you compare life in our typical settlements to what's out there in the wasteland? Our settlers have food, security, a warm place to sleep and access to company, commerce, medicine and booze. They should be tap dancing in the streets.

Contact the United Nations. They might be able to convince Bethesda of the imperative nature of this. They would probably give a rat's ass that your benevolent leadership isn't being acknowledged.

...or just ignore the worthless achievement until it either gets fixed or you realize that spending hours getting worthless achievements may not be the best use of your limited time on Earth?

I was wondering why I could not get this. Its a bit buggy it seems.