Applewood Staff

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Applewood Staff is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Miracle Apple Lumber ×2, Aurum Regis Nugget ×1, Growth Formula Iota ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 41 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 29 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 29 Wind Crystal, 6 Ice Crystal and 6 Water Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 73, Alchemist to Lv 71 and Goldsmith to Lv 71 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 7 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, Aurum Regis Nugget has the widest use: 185 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.