Alps Striking Dummy ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Alps Striking Dummy is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Ancient Lumber ×3 and Wolfram Ingot ×2 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 692 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Wind Cluster, 4 Fire Cluster, 4 Ice Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

3 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Ferberite (3:00) and Scarlet Sap (3:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Wolfram Ingot has the widest use: 107 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.