Kingcake ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Kingcake is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Birch Syrup ×1, Highland Flour ×1 and Moogle Miniature ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 21 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 891 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Fire Shard, 3 Fire Cluster, 2 Wind Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Culinarian to Lv 60 and Goldsmith to Lv 60 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Cloud Cotton Boll (0:00, 4:00, 8:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00) and Black Soil (4:00, 8:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Highland Flour has the widest use: 16 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.