Dead Hive Claws ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Dead Hive Claws is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Eikon Iron Ingot ×2, High Mythrite Ingot ×2, Eikon Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 44 units, plus 33 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,337 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,595 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 29 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Cluster, 9 Earth Cluster, 8 Wind Cluster and 2 other kinds.

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

6 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Lumythrite Ore (2:00, 14:00), Smithsonite Ore (8:00, 20:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, High Mythrite Ingot has the widest use: 150 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.