Picnic Set ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Picnic Set is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 9 intermediates — Finger Sandwich ×3, Steppe Tea ×3, Kudzu Cloth ×2 and 6 others — which resolve to 15 distinct raw materials totalling 38 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,698 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,682 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Lightning Crystal, 5 Fire Shard, 3 Fire Cluster and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 70 and Culinarian to Lv 70 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

9 of the 15 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Ala Mhigan Salt Crystal (0:00, 12:00) and Volcanic Rock Salt (17:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Ruby Cotton Yarn has the widest use: 91 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.