Titanium Fork

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Titanium Fork is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Titanium Ingot ×3, Dragon Leather ×1, Hallowed Chestnut Lumber ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 53 units, plus 59 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,925 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,373 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 50 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 27 Fire Crystal, 14 Wind Crystal, 9 Water Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 56, Alchemist to Lv 56, Blacksmith to Lv 56 and Leatherworker to Lv 56 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Abalathian Mistletoe (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Titanium Nugget has the widest use: 112 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.