Manganese Hatchet

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Manganese Hatchet is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Manganese Ingot ×2, Blue Zircon ×1, Ironwood Lumber ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 56 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,021 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 40 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Fire Crystal, 24 Wind Crystal and 8 Earth Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 87, Carpenter to Lv 86 and Goldsmith to Lv 86 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 5 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Manganese Ingot has the widest use: 134 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.