I recently lost my stuff in plains biome, from 2 deathsquitos and a few fulings (it was a spear thrower that got me in the back). Going back in there naked is rough. I had to make do with a level 1 stone axe; couldn't upgrade it because I had no mats for workbench upgrades. Luckily it wasn't that far from a smallish patch of blackforest, which was a safer place to be (but still not safe). I managed to grab some cloudberries while flashing naked through swamp near my last spawn point (which was adjacent to another stretch of plains), dodging draugr, skeles, blobs, leeches, and abominations. After several tries I made it up to mistlands, which was a truly safe place due to its emptiness. But there were no resources there (it was blank ground).

My first attempt to build a recovery basecamp failed since I built it too near that blackforest patch and the greys heard me and came for me... :\ Learned that lesson and manage to run all the way back again, deconstruct it, and reconstruct it much farther away from the border. After that it was playing chicken with the greys, snatching wood here and there to get enough to cover a bed with a roof to set a new spawn point, and the workbench so I could use it for repairs... or whatever. And a box so I could leave some things behind and safe instead of losing them on my corpse every time... After that, deaths didn't require such a long dangerous run.

I was sneaking through the plains at one point and was like two feet from my treasured gear... I guess I got excited because I stopped paying attention to stamina. It ran out and my character stood up... and immediately got smashed by a squito :( A few more tries... I noticed some red shrooms in blackforest on the way to plains where my tombstone was. That plus my dwindling cloudberry supply gave me more of a hp/sta boost. When I finally got my stuff, I managed to survive two hits by a deathsquito while naked somehow. You can one-shot 'squitos with just about anything.. but not a level one stone axe! I think I got lucky with the timing of some of my shots. I got to my tombstone and grabbed what I could carry... which was not everything, but got my armor and a better weapon and shield. Ran off some fulings and put it on.. went back and tried to finish off the rest without dying again so I could get the rest of my tombstone. Was still rough and I had to use a health potion (another thing I'd luckily looted).

Man it's good to have your gear back... Since I was near the edge of the map anyway, I decided to have a look toward the edge. Fell over and lost it all again! :( And my boat and its supplies besides. I did not have enough warning about that, and couldn't turn in time...

This time, I used the console to get my tombstone. I could tell it would have been impossible to recover that gear otherwise. Felt like I got a little cheated there; couldn't Hugin have said something?? I accepted the loss of my boat and its supplies though, and only recovered my tombstone. Now I know... /sigh.

And you only lost some stuff in blackforest? Maaan... you ain't seen nothing yet! :-P