Cedar Crook

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cedar Crook is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Archaeornis Leather ×1 and Electrum Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 13 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 568 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Wind Shard, 3 Earth Crystal, 3 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 51, Leatherworker to Lv 51 and Goldsmith to Lv 42 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Coerthan Tea Leaves (0:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 20:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Electrum Ingot has the widest use: 234 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.