Hello Islanders,
We are working at a really fast paced development adding heaps of new features multiple times a day compared to other early access games. Over here If you would like a slow pace of patches you will need to opt into the steam betas legacy branch. You can do this by going into properties on The Isle -> Betas and in the dropdown selecting legacy.
Legacy Branch only gets a update every few months, so you can be sure there won't be too many updates.
There can be up to 10 updates a day over the next few months until we are past this stage of development and we get to the stage of only working on polish.
The reason why we do heaps of small patches instead of grouping them into one is because we can find out exactly what broke and where. Instead of it being a complete mess and having to guess what change caused what bug in the game.
Most changes in patches are done based upon peoples experience in the server. Some optimizations can only be done on a 60 player server or more. Otherwise we don't find any issues.
Thanks for the support!