Picnic Basket

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Picnic Basket is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Dwarven Cotton ×1, Sausage Links ×1, Dwarven Cotton Thread ×3 and 2 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 41 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 916 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Lightning Crystal, 13 Fire Crystal, 7 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 80 and Culinarian to Lv 76 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, 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, Dwarven Cotton has the widest use: 165 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.