Lattice Planter

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Lattice Planter is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Rosewood Lumber ×5 and Cobalt Ingot ×3 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 56 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,066 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 45 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 36 Wind Shard, 15 Fire Shard and 5 Ice Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 45 and Blacksmith to Lv 42 — 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.