Despite creator Dean Hall being slated to leave the project by years end, the project itself is reported to be doubling it's manpower. They informed players of this news via a new DayZ update which also outlined studio plas regarding Update 0.37 dropping on March 5th.

We are inducting a large number of new people to the team, effectively doubling the whole project.Dean Hall

The DayZ news entry went on to detail a number of bug fixes while mentioning work on the upcoming cooking system.

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.Dean Hall

The blog promised a roadmap roughly outlining the studio's future for the rest of 2014 involving DayZ.

DayZ is still in Early Access via the Steam platform with over a million copies already sold, the DayZ news blog can be found here.

Posted: Mar 03, 2014 5:40 am
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