Cashmere Slops ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cashmere Slops is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Cashmere Cloth ×2, Crawler Silk ×2 and Diluted Vitriol ×2 — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 27 units, plus 15 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,763 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,307 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Lightning Cluster, 5 Lightning Crystal, 3 Wind Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

2 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Crawler Silk has the widest use: 178 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.