Eorzean Lantern ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Eorzean Lantern is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Darksteel Ingot ×3, Palladium Ingot ×2, Crystal Glass ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 74 units, plus 50 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,358 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,162 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 46 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Crystal, 10 Wind Crystal, 9 Fire Cluster and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 70, Alchemist to Lv 50 and Blacksmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Palladium Ore (4:00, 16:00) and Darksteel Ore (1:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Palladium Nugget has the widest use: 129 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.