Birch Rod

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Birch Rod is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Birch Lumber ×2, Star Sapphire ×2, Archaeornis Leather ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 35 units, plus 44 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,223 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,171 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 41 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 23 Wind Crystal, 10 Wind Shard, 5 Water Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 60, Alchemist to Lv 58, Goldsmith to Lv 58 and Leatherworker to Lv 51 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

9 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Coerthan Tea Leaves (0:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 20:00, 22:00), Red Quartz (10:00, 22:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 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.