Ceramic Tile Flooring

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ceramic Tile Flooring is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Mortar ×4 and Distilled Water ×4 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 12 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,645 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Water Shard, 2 Fire Shard and 2 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 25 and Alchemist to Lv 20 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 5 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Mortar has the widest use: 140 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.