Darksteel Nugget ★

Nothing in this list is craftable in turn, so one Darksteel Nugget is a single step: 3 units of material drawn from a single base item, plus 3 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,373 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 410 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 9,374 recipes nest deeper.

The single raw material is gathered, and it is time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Darksteel Nugget is itself consumed by 121 further recipes, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.