Adamantite Ball-pein Hammer

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Adamantite Ball-pein Hammer is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Adamantite Nugget ×3, Titanium Ingot ×2, Adamantite Rivets ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 44 units, plus 46 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,337 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,595 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 43 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 38 Fire Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal, 2 Fire Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 60 and Leatherworker to Lv 58 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 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, Titanium Nugget has the widest use: 112 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.