Stuffed Takitaro ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Stuffed Takitaro is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Black Pearl ×2, Darksteel Rivets ×2, Treated Spruce Lumber ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 26 units, plus 33 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,543 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,329 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 31 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Crystal, 12 Wind Shard, 6 Wind Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 50, Blacksmith to Lv 50, Carpenter to Lv 50 and Goldsmith to Lv 45 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 6 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.