Early-early game: club, knife, 2 spears for animal tracking, bow, stone axe
early game: pipe baton, 2-3 pipe weapons (always shotgun + MG, sometimes rifle), knife, stone axe+shovel
6th-7th day: 1-2 lvl5 iron tools (seems like I, yet again, fall back to using fireaxe as a melee weapon), 2-3 pipe weapons knife
midgame: 3 iron tools, knife, 1-2 guns, wrenching tool
Late game: auger, steel fireaxe, 1-2 T3 guns, nailgun, impact driver