TwinSpire

My suggestion... If you don't mind a little "outside game cheating" use the http://dayzdb.com/ map, filter out the low occurrence markers (small dots). Hit up every hopital/red brink building you run into. Hit up every large dot location you find. Squares are decent too... Pay attention to spawn locations, they don't vary much. Many residential houses only spawn stuff in the porch or entryway, saving you the time going upstairs etc. You will quickly learn the houses to hit up and which to pass on, I generally pass on ANY rough wood cabin like home, never found anything in there. The map will show cars as spawn location, from what I have seen and heard stuff used to spawn in there but after the last patch they are empty (I am a noob myself). Go to low pop servers, raid the medic houses, get some food, find a well and drink then head inland to smaller places. Any axe is more then enough for zombies, crowbar/shovel is ok if you learn how to dodge their attacks. Construction sites and medic houses have axes (any axe but fire is best). Pretty much any red square on the map will have a high probability for weapons. Be careful with zed, if they face you they will attack and can see long distances trough walls. So if a zed if facing a house and you think you are crafty and go in the back door there is a decent chance it will see you and attack through walls... have died a few times this way. Don't EVER eat rotten food... as a matter of fact I would avoid all raw food entirely unless you have to. They don't give much health and it is possible other players have poisoned them. Drink/eat as much as you can, till really stuffed (not just stuffed). Though if you are hungry and only have water try and save a little stomach space for food when you find it. Know that when it tells you "are hungry" you literally are at less then 20% energy. Eat everything no point in carrying food right now.

Just started playing a few days ago... Died numerous times... For me the most frustrating was literally the first hour (or after being experienced first 15-30 min). So far I have found starting is a crap shoot... Mainly hinged on how fast you can find a semi-decent weapon and the zombie spawns. The seemingly zombies eagle x-ray vision and walk through walls glitch really messed me up at first and can be frustrating until you get at least a crowbar/shovel. The day/night cycle was frustrating as well, starting a new game in night mode stinks. Was stuck in night mode after my first death, just a noob's opinion.