Inferno Cane ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Inferno Cane is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Ancient Lumber ×3, Growth Formula Delta ×1 and Quicksilver ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 25 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 904 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 13 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Crystal, 6 Wind Cluster, 3 Ice Cluster and 2 other kinds.

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

4 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Scarlet Sap (3:00) and Trillium Bulb (21:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 18 Eorzean hours, about 53 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Ancient Lumber has the widest use: 52 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.