Gaganaskin Bush Hat

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Gaganaskin Bush Hat is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Gagana Leather ×2, Bloodhempen Cloth ×1, Rose Gold Nugget ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 17 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 847 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Earth Crystal, 5 Wind Crystal and 3 Lightning Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 61, Weaver to Lv 61 and Goldsmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 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, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.