Culinarian's Hat ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Culinarian's Hat is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Rose Gold Nugget ×1, Silk Thread ×1, Undyed Felt ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 22 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 823 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 17 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Lightning Shard, 6 Lightning Crystal, 5 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 50, Goldsmith to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00) and Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.