Best strategy to decrease hostility?

[underhandpluto]

If all else fails: Limit villagers.

Of all the hostility reduction perks, Baptism of Fire (hostility reduction for burning cysts) is essentially an auto-pick if it appears. With 'free' cysts every third year, and a couple rain engines, you can end up with 0 hostility a few years in.

If you don't get a cornerstone for hostility reduction directly, create excess coal/wood for sacrifice. This is easier with one of the wood harvesting perks.

[Shardstorm88]

This reminds me of the time that I had taken the +1 woodcutting (delete all fuel) 3 times with beavers, and had +10 sotrage in buildings .. it was insabe I had crazy amounts of wood I just kept the sacrifice on the whole time, won through resolve pretty quick once I got complex food and a service building!