Imitation Square Window ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Imitation Square Window is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Clear Glass Lens ×3, Steel Joint Plate ×3, Torreya Lumber ×3 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 47 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 42 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Water Shard, 9 Ice Shard, 9 Wind Cluster and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 70, Alchemist to Lv 28, Armorer to Lv 27 and Blacksmith to Lv 26 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 7 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, Steel Ingot has the widest use: 125 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.