Carpeting ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Carpeting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Linen Yarn ×5, Vanya Silk ×3, Undyed Felt ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 52 units, plus 42 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,890 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,892 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 32 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Lightning Shard, 14 Lightning Crystal, 5 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Silk Thread has the widest use: 175 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.