In order to study the settlement patterns of different types of soft soil and miscellaneous fill soil, indoor settlement tests were conducted on different types of soft soil and overlying miscellaneous fill soil under di-fferent loads and liquid indices, with the underlying silt soft soil as the research object. The temporal development patterns of total settlement, consolidation settlement, and mutally embedded settlement of different types of soft soil and miscellaneous fill soil foundations at 50, 100, 150 kPa, as well as the temporal development patterns of total settlement, consolidation settlement, and mutally embedded settlement of different soft soils with liquid indices of 0.8, 1.0, 1.2 and miscellaneous fill soil foundations at 100 kPa were analyzed. The research results indicate that the mutally embedded settlement and mutally embedded settlement completion of the three soil samples increase with the increase of load and liquidity index, respectively. For different soil samples, the mutally embedded settlement of high liquid limit soil is greater than that of low liquid limit soil, and the mutally embedded settlement completion has different variation patterns at different liquidity indices.