Birch Longbow

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Birch Longbow is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Adamantite Nugget ×2, Birch Lumber ×1, Chimerical Felt ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 34 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,100 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Fire Crystal, 10 Wind Crystal, 7 Lightning Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 58, Blacksmith to Lv 58, Weaver to Lv 58 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Adamantite Ore (0:00, 2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00) and Darksteel Ore (1:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Chimerical Felt has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.