Grade 2 Picture Frame

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Grade 2 Picture Frame is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 10 intermediates — Dark Chestnut Lumber ×3, Holy Cedar Lumber ×3, Linen Canvas ×3 and 7 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 72 units, plus 91 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,341 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,465 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 83 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 34 Wind Crystal, 27 Water Shard, 20 Lightning Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 55, Alchemist to Lv 52 and Weaver to Lv 36 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Dravanian Mistletoe (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Varnish has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.