Shoe Rack

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Shoe Rack is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 8 intermediates — Kumbhira Leather ×4, Saiga Leather ×4, Snow Linen ×4 and 5 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totaling 108 units, plus 186 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,489 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,843 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 170 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 72 Earth Crystal, 32 Lightning Crystal, 32 Wind Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 86, Weaver to Lv 84, Carpenter to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 41 — 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: Spruce Log (9:00). That window comes around once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Varnish has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.