about half an hour from beggining zone... begginers area is somewhat 2h walk in every direction MINIMUM! I'm like 1h walk from the very center of it, and a guy spawned just besides my claim yesterday! Sunday I choosed a direction to walk, and walked for something arround 2 hours straight, and still was able to find to much signs of "civilization" arround. If you really want to hermit, nowdays I think you need at least a 5 - 7 hours walk in a single direction from the start zone to get some solitude!!!
I'm just living where I live because I'm with friends there, and met some really nice people living nearby, so I'll stick arround untill things get really dangerous

About being good by not getting killed... this doesn't make you good. There are ppl here who died a lot already, and still have characters that, if killed, are eligible for vallhalla!