Blacksmith's Slops ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Blacksmith's Slops is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Undyed Felt ×4, Darksteel Nugget ×1, Silk Thread ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 26 units, plus 39 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,543 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,273 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 34 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Lightning Shard, 8 Water Shard, 6 Lightning Crystal and 2 other kinds.

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

4 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00) and Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Silk Thread has the widest use: 175 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.