Rarefied Serpentskin Hat

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rarefied Serpentskin Hat is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Amphiptere Leather ×2, Hallowed Ramie Cloth ×1, Rose Gold Nugget ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 23 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,647 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,208 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 29 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Earth Crystal, 9 Lightning Crystal, 8 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 60, Alchemist to Lv 56, Weaver to Lv 56 and Goldsmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Abalathian Mistletoe (6:00, 18:00) and Gold Ore (9:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.