Garden Tool Shelf

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Garden Tool Shelf is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Riviera Open-shelf Bookcase ×1, Darksteel Nugget ×7, Rosewood Lumber ×7 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 60 units, plus 91 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,112 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,557 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 77 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 42 Wind Shard, 30 Fire Crystal, 7 Lightning Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 80, Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Carpenter to Lv 50 — 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: 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.