Palladium Texture Hammer

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Palladium Texture Hammer is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Palladium Nugget ×2, Molybdenum Ingot ×1, Star Spinel ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 23 units, plus 34 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,647 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 956 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 19 Wind Crystal, 10 Fire Crystal and 5 Earth Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 69, Carpenter to Lv 68 and Goldsmith to Lv 68 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 7 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Raw Star Spinel (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Palladium Nugget has the widest use: 129 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.