Maple Clogs

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Maple Clogs is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Maple Lumber ×1 — which resolves to 1 distinct raw material totalling 3 units, plus 3 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,373 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 409 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 1 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Wind Shard and 1 Ice Shard.

Every step is Carpenter work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 1 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

Its single raw material is gathered, and no spot for it is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Maple Lumber has the widest use: 39 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.