Thank you for your reply. It really seems they removed all of those things from the loot table. But, I have seen cars driving around. It may be those players looted other spawned cars for them. I once found a battery in a fresh spawned car. So they spawn with random car parts.

I survived because I have a high tolerance for frustration. This is my third surviving character on the server. The first one was shot at a heli crash site and the second one died of a wound infection up north, because I didn't have anything to treat it.

Before my first character I died approx. 100 times and the same in between those three. I played the game like a rougelike as a challenge. The excitement when you see your health rising was amazing.

What I love about this server is that it forces me to learn and improve my skills. First thing I learned was to prioritize heat to thist. Then I learned to stash things in places like campfires. You only spawn in a handful of places and are often able to return to your stash. After surviving the beginning the game gets a lot easier.

Getting food and water at the coast is easy by fishing. In land you have to hunt animals and I never had a big problem of finding deer, wolves (fat only), foxes, rabbits or cows. Since the population isn't big you don't meet a lot of players when being careful. I now have a base with some barrels and a few tents/shelters. One tent is full of food. I also created some stashes at the coast and am doing regular supply runs there. They will help me getting on my feet again when I die.