High Steel Fork

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Steel Fork is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — High Steel Ingot ×3, Gagana Leather ×1, Larch Lumber ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 42 units, plus 34 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,044 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,260 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 28 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Crystal, 6 Wind Crystal, 4 Water Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 62, Blacksmith to Lv 62, Leatherworker to Lv 61 and Alchemist to Lv 55 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 9 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 4 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, High Steel Nugget has the widest use: 133 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.