Towel Hanger

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Towel Hanger is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Iron Ingot ×3, Iron Rivets ×1, Undyed Cotton Cloth ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 661 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Fire Shard, 2 Lightning Shard and 1 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 18 and Weaver to Lv 13 — 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, Iron Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.