Manor Counter ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Manor Counter is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Treated Spruce Lumber ×3, Clinker Bricks ×2, Cut Stone ×2 and 3 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 69 units, plus 43 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,278 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,458 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 41 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Wind Crystal, 14 Water Shard, 6 Wind Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 50, Alchemist to Lv 39 and Goldsmith to Lv 30 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Spruce Log (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

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