Gordian Bureau ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Gordian Bureau is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Birch Lumber ×5, Adamantite Nugget ×2 and Aurum Regis Nugget ×2 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 53 units, plus 48 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,925 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,373 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 45 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 35 Wind Crystal, 10 Fire Crystal, 2 Wind Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

5 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Adamantite Ore (0:00, 2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00), Darksteel Ore (1:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 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.