Wooden Bow

Night one is the whole point of this bow. Zombies walk at you in a straight line and Demon Eyes drift in from off screen, and both are easy to handle at a range you control. A wooden sword makes you trade hits with them. The bow does not.

Arrows cost almost nothing and most of what you fire lands on the ground for you to pick back up, so ammo is barely a constraint if you clean up after a fight. If you spawned with nothing, build this before you finish the house.

It applies no knockback at all, so any modifier that touches knockback is a dead roll on it. Not that a starter bow deserves reforge money.