Gold Ingot ★★★

Nothing in this list is craftable in turn, so one Gold Ingot is a single step: 3 units of material drawn from 3 base items, plus 3 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,373 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 451 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 9,374 recipes nest deeper.

2 of the 3 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00) and Native Gold (4:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 19 Eorzean hours, about 55 real-world minutes.

Gold Ingot is itself consumed by 184 further recipes, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.