Passive Stress Reduction

[CoMtnRider]

I just wanted to confirm Stress doesn't just naturally decrease while the characters are in the Hamlet (Not in a stress reducing building) if they aren't being sent out on missions. Can someone confirm one way or the other.

I would test this on my own but I had to restart the game from scratch after my save files got corrupted.

[Steelflame]

Confirm. Notably you can build a district building (If you have the DLC) that makes idle heros heal 10 stress per week, and some events will heal stress from members of your roster.

[CoMtnRider]

Thanks for confirming!

[Sir Francis]

Originally posted by Steelflame:

Confirm. Notably you can build a district building (If you have the DLC) that makes idle heros heal 10 stress per week, and some events will heal stress from members of your roster.

It says "increases idle stress heal by 10" so it should be 15, which is crazy good.

[Bart The Greatest]

A hero that doesn't make use of one such building (Tavern/Abbey), but is still kept at rest while other heroes complete expeditions, will recover 5 units of stress each week.
http://darkestdungeon.gamepedia.com/Stress

So with Puppet Theater it's -15/week

[Panfilo]

All your idle heroes passively lose 5 stress/week. As Sir Francis said, with Puppet Theater this increases to 15/week. There's also a random event that lets idle heroes heal 15 stress that week as well.