Demilune Bhuj

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Demilune Bhuj is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cobalt Ingot ×2, Jadeite ×1, Mahogany Lumber ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 13 units, plus 33 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,426 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 695 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Shard, 10 Wind Shard and 5 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 45, Goldsmith to Lv 40 and Carpenter to Lv 39 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 5 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, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.