Chimerical Felt Hat of Casting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chimerical Felt Hat of Casting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Chimerical Felt ×2, Amphiptere Leather ×1, Crawler Silk ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,541 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 28 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Lightning Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal, 4 Water Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 60, Leatherworker to Lv 58 and Alchemist to Lv 54 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00) and Volcanic Rock Salt (17:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Crawler Silk has the widest use: 178 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.