Pixie Cotton Apron of Crafting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Pixie Cotton Apron of Crafting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Pixie Cotton ×2, Atrociraptor Leather ×1, Stonegold Nugget ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 43 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,106 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 13 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Lightning Crystal, 12 Wind Crystal and 7 Earth Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 74, Leatherworker to Lv 74 and Goldsmith to Lv 71 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 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, Stonegold Nugget has the widest use: 90 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.