Apothecary's Workbench

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Apothecary's Workbench is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 9 intermediates — Ironwood Lumber ×8, Pewter Ingot ×4, Chirurgeon's Essentials ×1 and 6 others — which resolve to 12 distinct raw materials totalling 82 units, plus 211 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,417 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,486 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 64 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 147 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 128 Wind Crystal, 32 Ice Crystal, 23 Water Shard and 5 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 86, Goldsmith to Lv 82 and Alchemist to Lv 70 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

9 of the 12 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Torreya Log (6:00, 18:00), Thavnairian Mistletoe (17:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Torreya Lumber has the widest use: 75 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.