Adamantite Pliers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Adamantite Pliers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Adamantite Nugget ×3, Adamantite Rivets ×1 and Shark Oil ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 20 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,876 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 851 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 25 Fire Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal and 5 Water Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 59 and Alchemist to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, 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, Adamantite Nugget has the widest use: 79 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.