Zelkova Cane

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Zelkova Cane is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Zelkova Lumber ×2, Durium Nugget ×1, Growth Formula Theta ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 45 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,100 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 35 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 30 Wind Crystal, 10 Water Crystal and 5 Ice Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 68, Goldsmith to Lv 70 and Alchemist to Lv 66 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Rhodonite is a Lv 70 Goldsmith recipe feeding a Lv 68 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

All 11 raw materials are gathered, and 3 of them are time-gated: Raw Rhodonite (8:00, 20:00), Perlite (20:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.