I've recently gotten a bit bored of the regular 7 days solo grind, and felt like i needed to challenge myself a bit so I decided to run a permadeath, Blood moon every night, max pop, max loot with no respawn game on nomad diff

The problem is though, I figured unarmed would be good as it allows for:

>massive damage, especially with beer and lightning fists

>skinning

>both bladed AND blunt mod options

>healing on hit

>the entire fortitude skill tree conveniently available

but the last couple times i've tried, i realized that unarmed is really weak early game and doesn't become OP until way later in the game than i need. That being said, what melee weapons do you guys suggest i use for this run? I'd like to steer away from the strength tree if i can since i'm already running shotguns, but if that logic is flawed I'm open to hearing your POVs bc clearly mine is a bit outdated lol