Fool's Portal ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Fool's Portal is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Crystal Glass ×3, Torreya Lumber ×3 and Natron ×3 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,383 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,184 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 33 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Water Crystal, 9 Wind Cluster, 8 Ice Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 70 and Alchemist to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Torreya Log (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Crystal Glass has the widest use: 79 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.