I remember my first Discord group I played 7 Days with back during 16.4. I met these guys on a fairly new MP map while crossing a massive desert. We died so many times trying to find Yucca because a group in the area had already taken most of it. We ended up linking up with this group, and got invited to their 'guild'.
It was actually neat to meet people in game that didn't want to kill us, and they opened up and shared food and then we did our first horde night and got attacked by a rival nearby group that started to rocket our prison base AT THE SAME TIME. Omg, my gear was so substandard, and I had so little experience with PVP in this game. That fight was insane.
I also really do pine again back to the days of Valmod. The Bolt Rifle was literally my Excalibur.