Adamantite Francesca ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Adamantite Francesca is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Adamantite Nugget ×1, Birch Lumber ×1 and Pterodactyl Strap ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 16 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 699 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 13 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Fire Crystal, 5 Wind Crystal, 3 Earth Cluster and 2 other kinds.

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

4 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Adamantite Ore (0:00, 2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00) and Darksteel Ore (1:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Adamantite Nugget has the widest use: 79 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.