Hidemaster's Cap ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Hidemaster's Cap is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Griffin Leather ×3, Archaeornis Leather ×1, Hardsilver Ingot ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,613 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 13 Wind Crystal, 5 Wind Shard, 4 Earth Cluster and 2 other kinds.

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

8 of the 13 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Coerthan Tea Leaves (0:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 20:00, 22:00), Red Alumen (10:00, 22:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Hardsilver Ingot has the widest use: 117 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.