Flannel Suspenders ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Flannel Suspenders is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cloud Cloth ×2, Sewing Thread ×2, Pterodactyl Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 42 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,106 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 39 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Lightning Crystal, 14 Wind Crystal, 6 Lightning Cluster and 2 other kinds.

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

5 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Cloud Cotton Boll (0:00, 4:00, 8:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Ramie Thread has the widest use: 85 recipes call for it, spanning three of the eight crafting classes.