Walnut Table

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Walnut Table is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Steel Plate ×2, Steel Rivets ×2, Walnut Lumber ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 33 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 904 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 28 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Shard, 8 Ice Shard and 7 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 28, Blacksmith to Lv 29 and Armorer to Lv 27 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Steel Rivets is a Lv 29 Blacksmith recipe feeding a Lv 28 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

All 3 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.