Crystarium Umbrella Stand ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Crystarium Umbrella Stand is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Dwarven Cotton ×1, Mythrite Nugget ×1, Refined Natron ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,223 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 17 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Lightning Crystal, 14 Water Crystal and 3 Fire Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 80, Weaver to Lv 78 and Blacksmith to Lv 51 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Ala Mhigan Salt Crystal (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Dwarven Cotton has the widest use: 165 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.