Rarefied Beech Composite Bow

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rarefied Beech Composite Bow is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Beech Lumber ×2, Crawler Silk ×1 and High Steel Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 20 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 777 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 14 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Wind Crystal, 5 Lightning Crystal, 3 Fire Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 62, Blacksmith to Lv 61 and Weaver to Lv 57 — 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: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Crawler Silk has the widest use: 178 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.