Nidhogg Miniature ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Nidhogg Miniature is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Eikon Iron Ingot ×3 and High Mythrite Ingot ×3 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 49 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,749 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,059 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 17 Fire Cluster, 12 Wind Cluster and 6 Earth Cluster.

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

5 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Lumythrite Ore (2:00, 14:00) and Smithsonite Ore (8:00, 20:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, High Mythrite Ingot has the widest use: 150 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.