any one know whats the maximum stage you can build it up to now as the dev's have been very quiet about it or can you fully build it now? does anyone know , please let me know

Hi MrMadness, if you talk about the stronghold, actually you can do it at step 23 but apparently The 1.8 Update will add more availible stages to the stronghold to bring the total to 46 stages.

( see the information here : http://dayztipz.com/Origins-Stronghold-Guide.html )

Hope i answer correctly to you !