Holy Cedar Composite Bow

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Holy Cedar Composite Bow is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Mythrite Ingot ×2, Holy Cedar Lumber ×1, Rainbow Thread ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 39 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,756 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,225 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Crystal, 9 Wind Crystal, 3 Earth Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 52, Alchemist to Lv 52, Blacksmith to Lv 52, Leatherworker to Lv 52 and Weaver to Lv 51 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

10 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Coerthan Tea Leaves (0:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 20:00, 22:00) and Dravanian Mistletoe (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

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