Goldsmithing Bench ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Goldsmithing Bench is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Darksteel Nugget ×4, Spruce Lumber ×4, Electrum Ingot ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 35 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,223 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,171 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 37 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Crystal, 12 Wind Crystal, 10 Wind Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 50, Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Goldsmith to Lv 42 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00), Scarlet Sap (3:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Electrum Ingot has the widest use: 234 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.