The Unending Journey

Taken all the way down to base materials, one The Unending Journey is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 11 intermediates — Birch Lumber ×2, Cassia Lumber ×1, Glade Lantern ×1 and 8 others — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 58 units, plus 50 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,061 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,408 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 34 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Wind Crystal, 10 Wind Shard, 9 Ice Shard and 5 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 58, Blacksmith to Lv 52, Weaver to Lv 24 and Alchemist to Lv 15 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 13 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 5 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Mythrite Nugget has the widest use: 102 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.