Scathach Miniature ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Scathach Miniature is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Iolite ×6, Eikon Iron Ingot ×3 and Eikon Cloth ×1 — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 44 units, plus 43 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,337 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,982 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 38 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 26 Wind Cluster, 14 Fire Cluster and 3 Lightning Cluster.

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

5 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Frost Cotton Boll (6:00, 18:00), Smithsonite Ore (8:00, 20:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Eikon Iron Ingot has the widest use: 140 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.