We’ve got the full changelog for you to check out below. You can keep up with the latest changes coming to the game on the official DayZ website

Known issues:

• Player can in rare circumstances enter a state in which they cannot attack and must relog
• Character may temporarily enter a frozen state when throwing (resolved a few seconds)
• Melee targeting is off in some situations
• Players can in some circumstances experience slight desync with server
• Dynamic server events are temporarily disabled
• Backpacks rearrange after reconnection
• Players restrained while unconscious remained restrained until reconnection (after awaking)
• Persistent items & storage are disabled server side pending hot fix to stable branch

New:

• Actions: cans can be opened with SKS bayonet and sickle
• Actions: added playerDrinkCan action to config
• Actions: added Melee class to SurvivorBase
• Animations: New default aimed animations with rifle
• Animations: Player now can walk while surrender
• Animations: Transitions for surrender/restrained player
• Animations: Crouched zombie animation set
• Animations: Reload for CZ527
• Animations: Hand poses added for matchbox, Injection Vial, Hacksaw
• Animations: Drinking from can
• Character: New female face models
• Character: New male face models
• Engine: Ragdoll support for Zombies & Players
• Engine: Initial implementation of navmesh for zombie pathfinding
• Items: Boonie hat fishing hook storage
• Items: Chemlights
• Items: AK101
• Items: CR 527
• Items: Makarov
• Items PM 73 RAK
• Items: Medium Civilian Tent
• Items: Paramedic clothes (jacket and pants)
• Items: Military Boots now store knives
• Items: Red, Black, Polka dotted, Olive and Camo bandana added
• Items: Untied Red, Black, Polka dotted, Olive and Camo bandana added
• Recipes : Red, Black, Polka dotted, Olive and Camo as a bandage
• Recipes: Red, Black, Polka dotted, Olive and Camo bandanas can be untied and tied to mask
• Server: Persistent item support (disabled for this update)
• Server: Simulation changes to support increased server performance
• Server: Persistent storage support (disabled for this update)
• Server: Dynamic loot respawning
• World: Turovo village added

Fixed:

• Actions: Player is not able to fill a ruined canteen from well.
• Actions: When player opens ruined canned food there is low amount of food left.
• Actions: Player is not able to pour water from a ruined canteen.
• Actions: Player can no long empty magazine attached to a weapon
• Actions: No access to catch rain action during ongoing action
• Actions: Fishing actions displayed while using different items than rod
• Actions: Added missing part to improvised bag/backpack crafting messages in action menu
• Actions: Zucchini can be force fed
• Actions: Added new drink from well animation to blue well
• Actions: Unable to use actions while swimming or while on ladder
• Actions: Player can take Makarov into hands straight from ground
• Actions: Player can take PM73 RAK into hands  straight from ground
• Actions: Removing item on which consume action was called, not item which was swapped to hands during consume action
• Animals: Visual improvement of cow, rabbit and wildboar
• Animations: Gestures related bugs fixed (Facepalm, Cut throat, Silence)
• Animations: Crouch moves with bow
• Animations: Prone moves with pistol
• Animations: Fixed multiple issues with vaulting
• Animations: Zucchini handheld position
• Animations: SoundEdge(footstep sounds) set correctly for kneel run with rifle
• Animations: Face-palm doesn’t make the player stand up from prone anymore
• Animations: Sitting tweaked(changing weapons keeps player in kneel, instead of making them stand….)
• Engine: Adjustment to Night time lighting levels
• Items: Dimmed fireplace light so it not interfere with HDR
• Items: Tweaked shotguns dispersions and recoils
• Items: Tweaked pistols dispersions
• Items: Tweaked rifles, carbines and SMGs dispersions
• Items: Tweaked attachments (optics, buttstocks, handguards, compensators, bipod) dispersions
• Items: Wooden sticks can be held in hands
• Items: CR527 shadow glitch fixed
• Items: Set chemlight to last 60 minutes
• Items: Lowered light intensity for chemlights and flare
• Items: Temoved buttstock as default spawned attachment for MP5
• Item: Binoculars size reduced
• Items: Added other chemlight color material variants
• Modifiers: Removed vomit message from blinded modifier
• Recipes: Player can paint CR 527 black, green and camo
• Recipes: Player can’t tear clothing into rags while there are things in it
• Recipes: Ruined cans opening tweaked

Rocket: So that is what we have been doing over the last three months. It is one of the reasons that development had seemed like it had slowed. The studio is now about 160 people we had a team building event last weekend. It is kind of crazy to see everyone in one spot. I guess the big news that we’ve been telling here at E3 is that we’re actually moving to a new engine. It is called infusion. So that is going to allow us to do DirectX 10 and 11. It is going to allow us to do dynamic lighting, which means no more flashlights going through walls, proper dynamic shadows, stuff like that. So it really kind of opens a lot of possibilities for us and I think it is going to allow us to deal will a lot of those issues. We had to decide, did we want to do a lot of little short term fixes or did we want to focus on the architecture. Given the success of the early access we felt like we really had to invest in the future.

He revealed some additional details about the engine as well. The engine is based off a mixture of current Bohemia Interactive technology and brand new code they are writing. The engine will come in phases over time in a modular fashion. It should be interesting to see how things are implemented as the patches get released.

You can read the entire DayZ AMA on reddit

DayZ is available now, you can grab a copy on Steam Early Access

The latest update includes a ton of bug fixes, new animations, tougher zombies, a new village, additional spawn points, and some additional gear including the crossbow as seen above.

Head over to the DayZ Steam page for the full changelog

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This week we started on a cooking system. Heavily inspired by the outstanding cooking system in Project Zomboid, this will be part of a wider push in March to focus on Survival aspects of the game in general. You will turn your cooking device on (fireplace/stove) and then place the items in it.

There’s a lot of development work left to do but it’s pretty clear that consumers don’t care about that and just want to play DayZ. It looks like 2014 is going to be the year of DayZ.

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