Stuffed Carbuncle ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Stuffed Carbuncle is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Star Ruby ×5, Birch Lumber ×3, Vanya Silk ×3 and 3 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 86 units, plus 85 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,427 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,490 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 82 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 45 Wind Crystal, 25 Wind Shard, 9 Lightning Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 60, Goldsmith to Lv 58 and Weaver to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00) and Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Aurum Regis Nugget has the widest use: 185 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.