Yarn Basket ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Yarn Basket is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Woolen Yarn ×6 — which resolves to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 509 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Lightning Shard, 1 Ice Cluster and 1 Wind Cluster.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 50 and Weaver to Lv 38 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

1 of the 2 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Bamboo Stick (7:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Woolen Yarn has the widest use: 131 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.