Shishi-odoshi ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Shishi-odoshi is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Cut Stone ×3 — which resolves to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 13 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,019 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 9 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Wind Shard, 2 Ice Cluster and 2 Wind Cluster.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 60 and Goldsmith to Lv 30 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Astral Moraine (0:00, 12:00) and Bamboo Stick (7:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Cut Stone has the widest use: 103 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.