I've scavenged three medium sized villages, found a hatchet, a hunting knife, a box of matches, lee enfield+ammo, ALICE pack, a cow which I killed for meat, a winchester, an m1911 and some stuff that I didn't take, BUT no food(except meat from cow) And NO WATER! Starting with no gun is okay imho, but starting without at least a soda can isn't really good.