Bronze Cross-pein Hammer

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bronze Cross-pein Hammer is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Bronze Ingot ×1, Maple Lumber ×1, Undyed Hempen Cloth ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 6 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 529 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 4 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Fire Shard, 2 Lightning Shard, 1 Earth Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 5, Weaver to Lv 2 and Carpenter to Lv 1 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Bronze Ingot has the widest use: 76 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.