Hingan Fire Pit

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Hingan Fire Pit is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Darksteel Nugget ×5, Persimmon Lumber ×5, Varnish ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 59 units, plus 67 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,079 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,413 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 58 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 30 Wind Crystal, 16 Water Shard, 15 Fire Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 66, Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Darksteel Nugget has the widest use: 121 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.