Shipping Crate

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Shipping Crate is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Walnut Lumber ×4, Iron Ingot ×2 and Iron Rivets ×1 — which resolve to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 16 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 740 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 11 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 11 Wind Shard, 3 Fire Shard and 2 Ice Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 27 and Blacksmith to Lv 18 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

Both raw materials are gathered, and no spot for either is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Walnut Lumber has the widest use: 128 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.