Pine Cane

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Pine Cane is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Growth Formula Eta ×2, Pine Lumber ×2, Kudzu Cloth ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 25 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,313 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 963 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 19 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Wind Crystal, 6 Water Crystal, 5 Lightning Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 64, Weaver to Lv 64 and Alchemist to Lv 61 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Abalathian Mistletoe (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Ruby Cotton Yarn has the widest use: 91 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.