Birch Composite Bow

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Birch Composite Bow is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Aurum Regis Nugget ×3, Birch Lumber ×2, Adamantite Rivets ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 41 units, plus 43 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,923 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,245 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 40 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 25 Wind Crystal, 10 Fire Crystal, 5 Lightning Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 60, Blacksmith to Lv 58, Goldsmith to Lv 58 and Weaver to Lv 57 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Adamantite Ore (0:00, 2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00), Darksteel Ore (1:00) and 2 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Aurum Regis Nugget has the widest use: 185 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.