Round Stage ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Round Stage is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Treated Spruce Lumber ×4, Darksteel Ingot ×2, Varnish ×2 and 3 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 100 units, plus 68 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,470 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,510 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 58 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 29 Wind Crystal, 16 Water Shard, 12 Fire Crystal and 3 other kinds.

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

4 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00) and Spruce Log (9:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Darksteel Nugget has the widest use: 121 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.