Southern Kitchen ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Southern Kitchen is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Black Willow Lumber ×4, Cut Stone ×4, Tama-hagane Ingot ×3 and 4 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 67 units, plus 65 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,259 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,452 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 61 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 27 Fire Crystal, 12 Wind Shard, 6 Ice Cluster and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 70, Blacksmith to Lv 66, Goldsmith to Lv 61 and Armorer to Lv 26 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Black Willow Log (4:00, 16:00). 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.