Chocobo Pillar ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chocobo Pillar is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Rosewood Lumber ×3, Darksteel Nugget ×2 and Spruce Lumber ×2 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 29 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,170 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,053 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Wind Shard, 9 Wind Crystal, 6 Fire Crystal and 1 other kind.

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

4 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00) and Spruce Log (9:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Darksteel Nugget has the widest use: 121 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.