Bar Counter ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bar Counter is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 8 intermediates — Astral Birch Lumber ×3, Dark Chestnut Lumber ×3, Darksteel Rivets ×2 and 5 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 51 units, plus 60 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,830 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,361 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 57 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 22 Wind Crystal, 16 Water Shard, 12 Fire Crystal and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 60, Alchemist to Lv 60 and Blacksmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Astral Moraine (0:00, 12:00), Seventh Heaven (4:00, 16:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

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