what's added in the patreon update? i want to know if i want that.
Oh boy. Checking ye ol' pirate communities to look at the changelogs, there's a lot. The Itch game is almost six months out of date now.
Looks like the dev is partway through making it an actual "game" game rather than a minigame, like there's an overworld/town system (including spots to build more stuff in town), a quest system, a WIP "story mode", an NPC to feed (and overfeed), lots of bugfixes and polish, a second feeding minigame for the dragon after the first to feed her more and bounce on her gut, and there's also now a cheat button for free ammo.
Anything past that is mostly just reworking the game's code to make it easier to add things in the future, as far as I can tell.
My assumption is that the dev's waiting until the rework stuff is done with before updating the Itch copy, but that's just a guess.
Wouldn't be that surprised if the game's complete rework finishes and it becomes a paid Steam release, kinda like what Backpack Hero and a few other Itch games do.