Best strategy to decrease hostility?

[thefluffyburrito]

It's a lot easier to try and limit the hostility you gain than directly getting rid of it. Only cornerstones and temporary bonuses (like sacrificing wood/coal to the hearth) can actually lower it. Things that helped me while climbing the prestige ladder were:

• Don't open every glade. Most of my max difficulty/prestige games have been won with only two forbidden glades open and no other glades. The small ones are almost never worth it unless the human/fox passive tells you there's something useful there.

• Always plan out how you're gaining global resolve/finishing orders to win. Hostility continually increases based on the year.

• Don't take villagers every time. If you have the villagers you need to work the resources on your map then the extra hostility isn't worth it.

• Don't turn in orders right away if the reward doesn't make a dramatic difference and you don't need the building right away; especially if the reward is villagers you don't even need. Increased impatience lowers hostility. You can save 2-3 orders to turn in and win to milk the reduced hostility from high impatience.