Cedar Longbow

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cedar Longbow is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Cedar Lumber ×1, Mythrite Nugget ×1 and Rainbow Thread ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 12 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 740 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Wind Crystal, 3 Fire Crystal, 2 Ice Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 51, Blacksmith to Lv 51 and Weaver to Lv 51 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 6 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, Rainbow Thread has the widest use: 116 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.