Applewood Longbow

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Applewood Longbow is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Miracle Apple Lumber ×3, Deepgold Ingot ×1, Electrum Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 44 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 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 32 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Wind Crystal, 6 Fire Crystal, 6 Ice Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 72, Blacksmith to Lv 72, Weaver to Lv 50 and Goldsmith to Lv 42 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 6 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Electrum Ingot has the widest use: 234 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.