Woodworking Bench ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Woodworking Bench is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cobalt Ingot ×6, Rosewood Lumber ×4, Cobalt Nails ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 70 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,116 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 67 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 40 Fire Shard, 24 Wind Shard, 4 Wind Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 50 and Blacksmith to Lv 44 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Scarlet Sap (3:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

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