Beach Chair ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Beach Chair is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Varnish ×5, Linen Yarn ×3, Treated Spruce Lumber ×3 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 79 units, plus 67 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,405 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,481 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 65 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 40 Water Shard, 18 Wind Crystal, 4 Lightning Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 50, Alchemist to Lv 41 and Weaver to Lv 32 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Spruce Log (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Varnish has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.