Whisperfine Woolen Shorts ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Whisperfine Woolen Shorts is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — True Linen ×1, Worsted Yarn ×1, Natron ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 14 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 951 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 10 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 4 Lightning Cluster, 4 Lightning Crystal, 4 Wind Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 70 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Hingan Flax (2:00, 14:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Twinthread has the widest use: 109 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.