Handbasket ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Handbasket is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cotton Canvas ×2, Cotton Yarn ×4, Beeswax ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 9 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 652 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Lightning Shard, 2 Water Shard, 1 Ice Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 50, Weaver to Lv 18 and Alchemist to Lv 10 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, 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, Cotton Yarn has the widest use: 58 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.