Whenever I attempt to interact with the back gate however, the game just gives me a prompt that I have no idea what to do with the gate. Did I miss a whole section? I don't think I'm missing an area on the map.
The gate is something that you can't interact with yet. It'll be available later. I think in 0.12 I already mentioned something more about it and full use will be in 0.13
Also raptor is available in version 0.12, not sure which one you are playing. In 0.12 the witch have a new quest involving raptors.
Oh, sorry about that, i forgot that what i was saying to you when it comes to certain things depends on which version you was using, if you was using the Itch.Io version of this game instead of the Patreon version, you would have to wait until the Itch.io's version update later on, it was usually around day 25 of each month but might end up being before entering the next month or at the start of the next month