Oriental Deck ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Oriental Deck is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Roof Tile ×15, Ancient Lumber ×7, Varnish ×4 and 1 other — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 89 units, plus 71 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,442 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,495 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 68 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 47 Water Shard, 16 Wind Cluster and 8 Ice Cluster.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Scarlet Sap (3:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Varnish has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.