Carbonweave Cap of Gathering ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Carbonweave Cap of Gathering is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Sewing Thread ×2, Crystal Glass ×1, Pterodactyl Leather ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 12 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 49 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,247 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 45 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Lightning Crystal, 14 Wind Crystal, 5 Earth Cluster and 5 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 60, Blacksmith to Lv 60, Weaver to Lv 60 and Alchemist to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

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

Of the intermediates, Titanium Nugget has the widest use: 112 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.