Molybdenum Pickaxe

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Molybdenum Pickaxe is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Molybdenum Ingot ×3, Beetle Glue ×1, Tama-hagane Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 43 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,223 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 33 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 29 Fire Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal, 5 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 69, Carpenter to Lv 68 and Alchemist to Lv 64 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 9 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Oroshigane Ingot has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.