Orchestrion ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Orchestrion is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Birch Lumber ×3, Rosewood Lumber ×3, Cassia Block ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 14 distinct raw materials totalling 52 units, plus 54 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,890 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,366 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 50 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Wind Shard, 15 Wind Crystal, 8 Wind Cluster and 5 other kinds.

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

6 of the 14 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Astral Moraine (0:00, 12:00), Seventh Heaven (4:00, 16:00) and 2 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Gold Ingot has the widest use: 184 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.