Forgemaster's Sandals ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Forgemaster's Sandals is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Griffin Leather ×3, Crawler Silk ×1, Hardsilver Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 31 units, plus 22 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,578 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,562 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Wind Crystal, 5 Lightning Crystal, 4 Earth Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 60, Weaver to Lv 57 and Goldsmith to Lv 56 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 13 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Red Alumen (10:00, 22:00), Wattle Bark (2:00, 14:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

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