Pixie Cotton Slops of Casting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Pixie Cotton Slops of Casting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Pixie Cotton ×3, Grade 1 Intelligence Alkahest ×2, Atrociraptor Leather ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 53 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,333 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 13 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 40 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 31 Lightning Crystal, 7 Earth Crystal, 6 Water Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Weaver to Lv 75, Leatherworker to Lv 74, Alchemist to Lv 73 and Blacksmith to Lv 50 — 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: 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.