Manor Timpani ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Manor Timpani is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cobalt Rivets ×4, Raptor Leather ×4, Spruce Lumber ×4 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 35 units, plus 75 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,223 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,171 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 72 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 40 Fire Shard, 20 Earth Shard, 12 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 50, Blacksmith to Lv 43 and Leatherworker to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Spruce Log (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.