Welcome to DayZ! 😅 Download iZurvive app which will tell you the location of drinking wells in the towns. Not gonna lie, it’ll be hard going as a new player. With time you will learn where to find loot, and how to easily survive. Be sure to check the overturned boats on the beach. They often spawn tinned food. Same with zombies. Good luck

Also, FYI, items do respawn... it’s likely that other players have recently looted the houses you’ve been to. You’ve just been unlucky!

Avoid official servers the spawn rate of items sucks. If you look at the code youll see some items have a total spawn rate of like 5 in a 220 square kilometre map.

People have even uploaded more user friendy spawn rate scripts that wont affect server performance online and will actually have you find something that isnt a motorbike helmet or raincoat in every building.

You won't find nothing because it's all been duplicated by cheaters a million times over and every official servers loot economy is rinsed because the Devs are useless when it comes to fixing it.... Find a decent private server I would

I understand you. I run a private server called 'AU/NZ COVID19' with very slighty increased food spawn rates, so you should not end up dying of hunger before you get a chance to do anything. Also, I have removed limits on popular guns like the M4, which means that they will continue to spawn regardless of people hoarding them at their bases. On official servers, most guns will have limits so once a certain number of guns have been stashed they will stop spawning, which is why you can never find anything good. This is not the case on my server.

My server is hosted in Australia, so if you are not on the region you might be afraid of lag, however I have players from all around the globe that do not experience any lag.