Sinking Minnow

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Sinking Minnow is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Oak Lumber ×1 and Silver Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 12 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 643 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Wind Shard and 3 Fire Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 34 and Carpenter to Lv 32 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

Both raw materials are gathered, and no spot for either is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Sinking Minnow is itself consumed by 1 further recipe, all of them Leatherworker recipes.