Grade 1 Picture Frame

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Grade 1 Picture Frame is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Cotton Canvas ×2, Linseed Oil ×2, Mahogany Lumber ×2 and 4 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 36 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,019 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 19 Wind Shard, 8 Water Shard, 5 Lightning Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 40, Alchemist to Lv 29 and Weaver to Lv 18 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 6 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Grade 1 Picture Frame is itself consumed by 2 further recipes, all of them Alchemist recipes.