Adamantite Main Gauches

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Adamantite Main Gauches is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Adamantite Nugget ×3, Tiger's Eye ×2, Birch Lumber ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 38 units, plus 44 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,698 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,430 of the 1,932 Blacksmith 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 15 Fire Crystal, 11 Wind Crystal, 10 Wind Shard and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 60, Alchemist to Lv 59, Carpenter to Lv 58 and Goldsmith to Lv 51 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, 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.