On its Tumblr, the DayZ development team outlined new additions to the title arriving with the next update, including a cooking system, new towns, and additional weapons.

The cooking system is part of the game's survival focus and is described as a "key area." The development team said that "players will be able to make normal fireplaces, as well as upgrade them to makeshift ovens." The team has created a texture system for the fire "dealing with 'emissive' textures," and say that coupled with a heat haze effect, it produces "some excellent results."

In addition to the the cooking system and new areas, new weapons are also highlighted, including an improved AKM weapons model.

"We’re working on staging the model now so its compatible with the attachment system and we really hope to bring variety to the possible configurations," said the dev team.

The team's also mentions two new, unnamed areas included in the update, saying only that the map team "has been very busy."

Performance upgrades and bug fixes already started to roll out on the 26th of this month, and the new build will roll out as an unscheduled update "the moment we are confident we have a suitable build to release."

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/28/day-z-survival-update-adds-cooking-weapons