Glade Pillar

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Glade Pillar is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Oak Lumber ×8 and Linseed Oil ×2 — which resolve to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 39 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,019 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 29 Wind Shard, 6 Water Shard and 4 Ice Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 40 and Alchemist to Lv 29 — 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.

Of the intermediates, Oak Lumber has the widest use: 86 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.