Silktones ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Silktones is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Grade 2 Dexterity Alkahest ×3, Prismatic Ingot ×2, Tungsten Steel Ingot ×2 and 3 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 41 units, plus 44 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,923 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,468 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 40 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Wind Crystal, 10 Fire Cluster, 6 Earth Cluster and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 80, Alchemist to Lv 80 and Goldsmith to Lv 80 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Prismstone (4:00, 16:00), Raw Onyx (0:00, 12:00) and 2 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Tungsten Steel Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.