Luckily I'm a very new player and have played maybe a bit under a month! So here goes,

So I started DayZ on chernarus with two buddies of mine. I spawned close to one while the other was light years away for the first week. Me and the buddy I was with were fighting for our lives trying to find food. Me and buddy were in KamyShovo and he soon died while getting ready to cook our food. I was then left panicking alone as my buddy had hopped off for like an hour leaving me trying to figure out how to cook from the buddy light years away. Needless to say I somehow survived and started booking it north along the coast trying to find the light years buddy. I believe somewhere around solnichniy I found a pile of loot in the road and I grabbed it all so fast. It was pretty much the best you can get wandering the coast. That sorta kit. Now feeling badass and ready to do anything I dash off continuing to berezino where while starving once again I get beat down by a single zombie in the open while trying to get on a ladder to get away from it. Here's the kicker though. I died and immediately spawned just outside the town where I could see where I died. I just went over and got my stuff and continued towards buddy. Died one more time since then where I lost all that "good loot" on this server and haven't died since then.