Chimerical Felt Trousers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chimerical Felt Trousers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Chimerical Felt ×3, Amphiptere Leather ×1, Crawler Silk ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 34 units, plus 34 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,052 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,565 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 31 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Lightning Crystal, 6 Water Shard, 5 Earth Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 60, Leatherworker to Lv 58 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

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