Rarefied Applewood Staff

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rarefied Applewood Staff is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Miracle Apple Lumber ×2, Growth Formula Iota ×1 and Stonegold Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 37 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 740 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 13 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 25 Wind Crystal, 6 Ice Crystal and 6 Water Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 74, Alchemist to Lv 71 and Goldsmith to Lv 71 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Stonegold Nugget has the widest use: 90 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.