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Update: Villagers Pray to You, Panels Can Sit Beside the Island

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This update comes from two things you told us.

One was: "I want to watch the numbers *and* the little people." Fair. Until now, showing the panels covered the villagers, and hiding them hid the numbers. Making a god choose between the two felt a bit beneath the job.

The other was that Cursor Cult is lovely to leave running, but now and then you'd like to do a little more with your villagers, as long as nothing nags you to. So here are two new things that never need your attention: click when you feel like it, and otherwise the villagers just get on with their lives.

## Prayers
- By day, a villager will now and then kneel and pray to you, with a flashing gold-rimmed bubble over their head. The icon inside shows what they want: rain, stone, peace, wisdom, a few more years, or a child.
- What they pray for depends on what the tribe needs: rain in a drought or when food runs low, peace in wartime or when tempers run high, more years for the old.
- Click the one praying (or their bubble) to answer. You grant a small miracle:
- a shower of rain
- a pile of stone by the path
- cooler tempers between the tribes
- a head full of new ideas
- a few more years
- a child on the way

The tribe grows a little more devout, and the villagers nearby light up with hearts.
- Ignoring a prayer is completely fine. It fades after a minute, with no penalty at all.
- Only one villager per tribe prays at a time, so they won't pile up.

## The god's eye
- Click any villager of your tribe and a round, gold-rimmed magnifying glass follows them around, showing them up close with their name underneath. As if a god were watching them.
- The first time you watch over someone, they're blessed with a few more years. After that, their days seem to get a little fuller. What exactly happens, you'll see.
- Click them again, or an empty spot in the glass, to look away. You can click other villagers through the glass too, including one who is praying.
- If they come to the end of their life, you'll be told.
- Only a quick click counts as a click: press and release without moving. Pressing and dragging still moves the island, as before.
- Hover over a villager and the tooltip tells you what a click will do.

## Panels beside the island
- Menu → Panels has a new choice, "Beside the island": the tribe panels and the oracle readout move next to the island, so you can see the numbers and the villagers at once.
- With the island docked to the bottom of the screen, the panels sit above it; docked to the top, they sit below it.
- On a vertical island they sit on the side facing into the screen, in a shorter two-column layout so both panels and the oracle readout fit.
- Clicks still pass through the empty space around the panels, so nothing underneath gets blocked.
- The old "Always" is now called "On the island" and is still the default. If you like things as they were, there is nothing to change.

## Demo
- Everything above is in the demo too: prayers, the god's eye, panels beside the island, the bear den and the About window.

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