See, I've started up on pretty much all the other servers and I can get started up pretty quickly if I'm honest. Started last night on a server we've never played before, within 2 hours we had a 5x3 house sorted, 1000 + metal, 8 guns, 3xC4 and loads of stuff. We got an air drop so we got lucky but on a fresh server solo I do fine.
I spawn, rush to get 10 wood, even just hitting a tree, rush to get 5 stone, make a stone hatchet, get more wood and 2 cloth, make a bow and arrows. Kill some animals for meat and more cloth. Make a set of full cloth armor. You can now easily kill people, stalk around nodes waiting for people to start mining and then kill them, take their goods. Rinse and repeat. On a solo start within a hour I was crafting an M4 (found blue print) and I also stole someones house. If you spawn nowhere near any resources press F1 and type suicide.