Hidemaster's Workboots ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Hidemaster's Workboots is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Griffin Leather ×3, Larimar ×2, Crawler Silk ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,414 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Wind Shard, 8 Wind Crystal, 5 Lightning Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 60, Weaver to Lv 57 and Goldsmith to Lv 53 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 11 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.