Bamboo Planter

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bamboo Planter is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Cut Stone ×3 and Zelkova Lumber ×2 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 904 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 19 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 17 Wind Shard, 10 Wind Crystal and 8 Ice Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 69 and Goldsmith to Lv 30 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 4 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Bamboo Stick (7:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Cut Stone has the widest use: 103 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.