Artisan's Culinary Knife ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Artisan's Culinary Knife is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Basilisk Whetstone ×1, Treated Spruce Lumber ×1, Wolfram Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 25 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,313 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,056 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Wind Crystal, 5 Wind Shard, 4 Fire Cluster and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 50, Carpenter to Lv 50 and Goldsmith to Lv 40 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Ferberite (3:00) and Spruce Log (9:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 18 Eorzean hours, about 53 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Wolfram Ingot has the widest use: 107 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.