Royal Plotting Table

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Royal Plotting Table is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 9 intermediates — Cut Stone ×9, Hallowed Chestnut Lumber ×6, Mahogany Lumber ×3 and 6 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 97 units, plus 142 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,465 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,508 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 133 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 68 Wind Crystal, 42 Wind Shard, 20 Water Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 57, Alchemist to Lv 56 and Goldsmith to Lv 56 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

10 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Abalathian Mistletoe (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Hardsilver Ingot has the widest use: 117 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.