Cast-iron Cookpot

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cast-iron Cookpot is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Ash Lumber ×5, Steel Plate ×2 and Steel Ingot ×5 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,081 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Fire Shard, 9 Ice Shard, 5 Wind Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 30, Blacksmith to Lv 26 and Carpenter to Lv 10 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 3 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Cast-iron Cookpot is itself consumed by 1 further recipe, all of them Armorer recipes.