High Mythrite Culinary Knife ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Mythrite Culinary Knife is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Luminous Fiber ×3, High Mythrite Ingot ×2, Gold Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 17 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 30 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,223 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Cluster, 7 Earth Cluster, 5 Wind Cluster and 3 other kinds.

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

9 of the 17 raw materials come out of the ground, and 7 of them are time-gated: Crystallized Sap (8:00, 20:00), Lumythrite Ore (2:00, 14:00) and 5 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

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